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April 29, 2021
On Yom HaShoah, I often think of the death camp chimneys that the poet Nelly Sachs so vividly depicted: “O the chimneys/on the ingeniously devised habitations of death/When Israel’s body drifted as smoke/through the air.”
But this year, I also thought of other chimneys such as the smokestacks of factories, power plants, and automobile exhaust pipes. Why? Because in the days just prior to Yom HaShoah, our planet broke records. On April 7 , the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration reported that “carbon dioxide levels are now higher than at anytime in the past 3.6 million years.”
While the timing of this news only coincidentally intersected with Yom HaShoah, this coincidence made me realize how our commemorations of Yom HaShoah should influence our approach to Earth Day.
Poems Born in Bergen-Belsen
Menachem Rosensaft is general counsel for the World Jewish Congress. But he is a poet by night, whose fierce writing wrestles with the darkness again and again.
Michael Berenbaum is director of the Sigi Ziering Institute and a professor of Jewish Studies at American Jewish University.
A World War II veteran places a flower at the inscribed memorial wall during a commemoration service in the former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, northern Germany. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)
th Anniversary of liberation: April 15, 1945.
Theodor Adorno famously wrote, “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” And yet, poetry has been written, even Nobel Prize-winning poetry (by Nelly Sachs), and poetry must be written if words are to be used to grapple with the unique evil that was Auschwitz.
Table for Five: Passover 2
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