Warsaw ghetto commemoration in Copenhagen last Sunday

Every year in late April, there is a brief ceremony held at the Jewish cemetery in Copenhagen. The occasion is the anniversary of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943 but is also a more general Holocaust commemoration. It is organised by the Polish Jews Association in Denmark, of which my late father was an active member; in fact, he often gave the main speech, including back in 2001, just two days after my mother died. This year, the ceremony was last Sunday, and I attended before driving back home. Many of the attendees are elderly, and most are Holocaust survivors themselves. Each year the congregation gets a little smaller; for me, the most glaring absence is obviously that of my father, but as I looked around there were many other faces missing...But as can be seen on the last few images, the memory is passed on to the young generations as well. A selection of 12 images is here:
http://wajsman.smugmug.com/gallery/1407543

BTW, the inscription on the monument visible in several of the pictures means "Never Again" in Polish, Danish and Hebrew.

Comments welcome as usual, and more normal PAW service will be resumed shortly.

Nathan

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