Day 55
The Future for Jews in Europe
Dedicated by Pini & Sabine Dunner in memory of Aba Dunner z”l, a fighter for the cause of European Jewry, and his wife Miriam a”h, hidden in Holland during the Holocaust.
Seventy years ago, our greatest tragedy, the Holocaust, came to an end, as the Allied armies freed Europe from Nazi rule. The war ended, the camps were liberated and some survivors decided that, perhaps, they should stay in Europe, that maybe there was still a future for Jews there.
Slowly but surely, they rebuilt their destroyed communities, their synagogues, and their families. They got married again, had children, and believed in the future. Indeed, for many decades, Anti-Semitism in Western Europe was banned as politically incorrect, and if it ever surfaced, it did so in a camouflaged version, in guises such as anti-Zionism.
However, recent history has raised disturbing questions about long-term Jewish continuity and 2014 will go down as a year that Jews and Jewish targets were victimised across Western Europe – quite apart from the alarming gains made by many far right political parties at local and national elections.
