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The mental ghetto is worse than the physical ghetto. That’s because you are not conscious of the mental ghetto. As for the physical ghetto, you are keenly aware of hunger and can choose to rebel against it. Is someone leading us “like sheep to the slaughter” concerning matters related to the Holocaust in general, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in particular? “Dependency on Yad Vashem is problematic”, says Professor Daniel Blatman in his critical remarks on the “Haaretz” newspaper of 19 April 2013. Questions surfacing as a result of Ofer’s trip to search for Maya, daughter of Sarenka, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising rbel 1. The scandal. Why has the story of the 50 Warsaw Ghetto rebels, whose names are engraved on a small headstone in Warsaw, been censored until now? Are you familiar with any name other than Mordechai Anilewicz? 2. Censorship. Who censored the journalists, including foreign journalists from the “New York Times”, vis a vis Sarenka’s story, especially since its publication could help find her daughter Maya? 3. The absurdity. How can it be that Sarenka appears in the photograph – almost the only one existing in the world showing Mordechai Anilewicz – but she herself is censored even though the photo was given to museums by Ofer Aloni’s mother (who owns the original)? 4. Are there still Kapos in the world? Who was the informant to the Polish Police Force prior to Ofer’s visit there to attend the ceremony commemorating 70 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and caused him to be arrested as he stood near the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemorative sculpture? (Take note that the sculptor himself, Nathan Rappaport, also received the photograph in clause 3 above from Ofer’s mother). 5. Is there democracy? Why was Ofer thrown out of Yad Vashem by its security guards, when he asked a democratic question of Dr Dreyfus, who is “responsible for memorializing the Holocaust”? The question Ofer asked was: “Why do you censor the 50 fighters whose names are engraved on the memorial at Mila 18, the command bunker of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising?” 6. Does the history of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising belong to a particular person? Is someone trying to control the memorialization of the Holocaust? What may that person or persons interests be in denying a simple truth – as testified to by Aliza Vitis-Shomron, and tens of documents discovered in February 2012 in Tel Aviv? 7. Was George Orwell right? He said: “Who controls the present, controls the past.” Is Bob Dylan right? “History is a funny thing. It can change. Events which we believed occurred maybe never did, and vice versa.” 8. Mordechai Anilewicz was known for his concept of “Don’t accept it.” Is this concept, used as a money-maker, denied by the Holocaust institutions themselves? How can it be that Holocaust institutions operate in direct contravention of Mordechai Anilewicz’s own directives? “Let us not forget that the most difficult of wars is that within ourselves: Not to accustom ourselves and adapt to these conditions! For one who adapts (even to a high-level role – O.A.) ceases to discern between good and evil, and becomes a servant to body and mind. No matter what should happen to you, remember, always: do not accustom yourselves. Do not adapt yourselves. Rebel against this reality.” 9. Is the historian not meant to behave like the archeologist? If a shard of clay can offer new relevance to our history, how can testimony, books, letters and photographs not be relevant? 10. Is someone leading us “like sheep to the slaughter” concerning matters related to the Holocaust in general, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in particular? “Dependency on Yad Vashem is problematic”, says Professor Daniel Blatman in his critical remarks on the “Haaretz” newspaper of 19 April 2013.

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