(Jewish Group) The State of Israel - Zionism - repudiates Eichmann's "Final Solution" [View all]

An acquaintance in Israel died yesterday. She was 102 years old, a Holocaust survivor.

I was not familiar with all her history but two stories bear mentioning here:

Her family was a well-to-do and when the Nazis took over their city in the Ukraine, her father was dragged and tortured in public. This was the reason why she did not feel bad for current day people in the Ukraine, remembering their collaboration with the Nazis.

Once her home was destroyed she was wondering in the woods. At some point, tired and hungry she decided to just approach a dwelling and to give herself up. She knocked on the door and the woman said: come in, I was waiting for you. In the owner's dream, the Madonna appeared and told her that a Jewess would come knocking on the north door and to give her shelter. As she was telling me the story she added that had she approached the hut at the south side, the owner would have called the Nazis.

Eventually she joined the partizans and married the leader both ended up in Israel, raising a family.

While Theodor Herzl founded the political Zionism in 1896, today's Zionism came after the Holocaust when many survivors arrived to build a new society in the ancient homeland of the Jewish people.

There will never be another "final solution." Zionism, Israel, is the old, the present and the future home of Jews.