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Heroes All Around Us
Posted in My Journal with tags 9/11, country, family, fireman, heroes, memorial, Music, police, remembering, September 11, song, USA, Video on October 7, 2011 by JoannaYad Vashem – Remember
Posted in People, Poetry, Prose & Prayer with tags holocaust, Israel, Jewish, memorial, Never Again, poem, remember, shoah, shrine, yad vashem on January 30, 2011 by Joanna
Names from concentration and death camps/Paul74 via Flickr
Stolen name replaced by number,
Savaged soul and broken heart.
Hell, a people to encumber.Blind eyes outside in darkness.
Dead souls dismissed the human face.
Stolen name replaced by numberRising from the ashes,
Pledging nevermore.
Hell, a people to encumberYad VaShem, the vault of memory,
Yad VaShem, the ground of tears
Stolen name replaced by numberShoah: families, children.
Here named, remembered, mourned
Hell, a people to encumberFaces pictured in the silence.
Tears cried forevermore.
Stolen name replaced by number
Hell, a people to encumberCopyright Joann Nelander
(experimental Villanelle)
Update -Yad Vashem
Posted in People with tags Benedict XVI, extermination, holocaust, inscriptions, memorial, People, Reflections, remember, tattoo, yad vashem on April 19, 2010 by JoannaUpdate-Yad Vashem – What’s in a Name
I was reminded of a piece I wrote, God Remembers Their Names on the occasion of Pope Benedict XVI speaking at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum and then I came upon this : A Hand and a Name by Renee Ghert-Zand.
“How ironic it is that celebrities, who live increasingly public lives, would metaphorically die to have their names and handprints immortalized in concrete, while the victims of the Holocaust would have done anything to have been able to live out their natural lives in obscurity, their names never appearing on one of countless Nazi extermination lists recovered and now housed forever at Yad VaShem.”
Yad VaShem Hall of Names by David Shankbone
Solemn Reminder of Death in Haiti
Posted in Culture, Photography with tags Culture, death, destruction, earthquake, emotional, Haiti, Just Praying Out Loud, memorial, Photography, Steve Harrigan, victims on March 3, 2010 by Joanna
The caption reads:
Black ribbons tied to a metal cross flutter in the wind on a hilltop above the mass grave site where many thousands of earthquake victims are buried, February 21, 2010 in Titanyen, Haiti. Bodies have arrived every day since last month’s 7.0 earthquake killed more than 200,000 people and left 1.2 million homeless. Called Haiti’s ‘Valley of Death.’
Veterans Fight to Keep Mojave Cross Memorial
Posted in United States, Video with tags ACLU, American, memorial, Mojave Cross, Politics, Prayer, Religion, U.S.Supreme Court, United States, veterans, Video on October 8, 2009 by JoannaCongressman warning reported by Raymond Arroyo:
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a case concerning whether a cross on federal park land in California which memorializes World War I veterans violates the U.S. Constitution. One congressman warned that the case could have an enormous “ripple effect” on memorials across the country including Arlington Cemetery.
Yad Vashem – God Remembers Their Names
Posted in Catholic, Christian, Culture, Defending Life, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Religion with tags Catholic, Christian, Church, Culture, Defending Life, holocaust, Holy Land, Jewish, memorial, News, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Prayer, Reflections, Religion, shoah, Spiritual, survivors, world news, yad vashem on May 12, 2009 by Joanna“I will give, in my house and within my walls, a monument and a name. I will give them an everlasting name which shall not be cut off.” With this passage from the Book of Isaiah, Pope Benedict XVI began a recollection of those slain in the Holocaust and memorialized at Yad Vashem. This passage furnished two words: Yad meaning “memorial” and shem “name.” The Pope recalled how each person remembered there bears a name. Though robbed of their life they could never be robbed of the name God had given them. The Pope said that he can only imagine the joyful expectation of their parents as they anxiously awaited the birth of their children; “What name shall we give this child? What is to become of him or her?” He said, that they could never have imagined that they would be condemned to such a degradable fate. Their cries still echos in our hearts. the Pope said that it is the cry of Able rising from the earth to the Almighty. Pope Benedict prayed from the Book of Lamentations proclaiming that the favors of the Almighty are never exhausted and His mercies are not spent.They are renewed each morning. So great is His faithfulness.
