On Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026, Many Holocaust Victims and Survivors Are Continually Denied Recognition

 Way more than ~200,000 Holocaust survivors are living right now; and almost a century after Stalin (ימ״ש) began to perpetrate the First Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Putin (ימ״ש) began to perpetrate the Second Holocaust when he invaded Ukraine in full to commit ethnocidal crimes especially against Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the rest of Ukraine’s Jewish community. Meanwhile, the last-known Holocaust victim whom was oppressed in Islamist-occupied Israel, Ran Gvili, was brought home today. For all that we know, there were probably people whom Hamas murdered and took hostage, and whom were never reported murdered or taken hostage. After all, in Islamist Iran, how many people (especially Jewish people) have been murdered, lawlessly imprisoned, etc. is only estimated. 

“Never Again” unfortunately became “What we hoped would never again occur” on February 24, 2022; and we owe recognition to all victims and survivors of the First Holocaust (c. 1922-1994) and the Second Holocaust (the Russian part of which began on February 24, 2022, and the Islamist part which began on October 7, 2023). As far as I know, Volodymyr Zelenskyy never thought that he himself would become a Holocaust survivor (and his parents were not previously given recognition as Holocaust survivors despite that Stalin, ימ״ש, intended to commit full-scale Antisemitic ethnocide). As far as I know, Shlomo Mansour (ז״ל וה״י״ד) never thought that he would become a victim of the Second Holocaust. As far as everyone should know and be concerned, every Jew from Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Shlomo Mansour to every other Jew who has endured acts of full-scale ethnocide against them, whether or not they survived, deserves recognition. 

PS Primo Levi, e.g., succumbed to PTSD. Multiple survivors of October 7th also succumbed to PTSD. One of my Andrulewicz cousins who needed to move around five times to avoid both the Nazis and the Soviets collapsed in 1970 at about the age of 58 years old, and being a hidden Jew and a kohen who happened to be a Catholic priest did not spare him. “Never Again” includes never again denying any part of the First Holocaust or the Second Holocaust.

My Response To David Wilber: Karaites and Other Non-Rabbinic Groups Reject the Talmud Overall For A Reason

 What do you make of this claim from a former rosh yeshiva Yaron Yadan, whom was Charedi and became chiloni? Yaron Yadan was a rosh yeshiva whom taught the Talmud for years, and eventually left the Charedi community altogether because he could no longer teach the following. On his website, he claims the following (the language which I have sanitized here because of how vile Yaron Yadan claims that the original language is):

“It is written in the Mishnah: “A girl of three years and a day…[redacted here because what’s in the passage is vile and not appropriate for Facebook]. If she is less than that (less than three years and a day), it is as one who sticks a finger into an eye” (Niddah 5:4). The sages of the Talmud explain the Mishnah’s simile “as one who sticks a finger into an eye”: Just as an eye, if poked by a finger…so is it when a man [harms a child]. This is why it is not called [crime of the most-egregious nature] (Niddah 45a).

“Thus did Maimonides rule ([specific citation; original language from Maimonides downplays the harm]): One who [harms] a girl younger than three is exempt from punishment, even if he [committed a crime against] his own daughter, and one who [harms] a boy of under nine is exempt from punishment, even if she [committed a crime against] her own son, and [a man or a woman who commits a crime againsr] a minor boy under the age of nine is exempt from the punishment written in the Torah…[per] (Leviticus 20:13).

“From what we have brought above, you can learn that Chazal and the religious arbiters treated [certain crimes against] a minor as a meaningless act. They completely ignore the psychological and emotional impact upon a boy or a girl who have undergone an irreversible trauma which can warp their entire lives.”

This is obviously not light stuff, and there is a reason that Karaites and other Non-Rabbinic groups reject the Talmud.