MY SAY: ON FIAMMA NIRENSTEIN MOVING TO ISRAEL
Today I got really choked up when I read a letter forwarded to me by my friend David Krakow….The letter, written on January 4, 1940, was by a Jewish resident of Vilna named Yehuda….Here is an excerpt.
“I do not know whether my letter will be permitted to reach you…..At the outbreak of the war I was in Byalistock. It is impossible to communicate the tension of those last few days. The country felt the impending tragedy and while hatred of the Nazis was strong, the sense of impotence and unpreparedness was even stronger. When President Mosciki broadcast the words “Tonight our eternal enemy initiated his attacks against Poland” the general impression was that he had pronounced our doom.
The letter which describes the terrors of Hitler and Stalin ends: “We live here, poorly clad, half starving, waiting for the day when we shall be able to migrate to Palestine.”
Millions of Polish men, women and children did not live. One in every three Jews in the world were killed in the Holocaust. They were trapped in Europe by the British who clamped shut the gates to Palestine, by the shameless Western nations that would not admit them, and by the tsunami of anti-Semitism that flooded Europe.
So, what does this have to do with Fiamma Nirenstein. She is not an ordinary citizen of Italy. She is a member of Parliament who is leaving because of the mounting anti-Semitism. Thousands of Europeans feel trapped and afraid and are planning their exit.
Yes dear Yehuda, rest easy. That dream of Zionism is a reality. You did not have that choice. Jews all over the world can now find a haven…..no Evian Conferences, no White Papers, no immigration restrictions, no Kindertransports, no endless lines for trains and ships that leave without them.
Now, if that doesn’t explain the miracle of Israel, what does? Jabotinski and Herzl must be smiling…..Ciao Fiamma….Shalom Fiamma
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