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| By Jeremy Last | "Totally Jewish", March 16, 2007 |
Darfur refugees pay respecs at Yad Vashem
A group of Sudanese refugees who fled to Israel from the humanitarian crisis in Darfuro visited Yad Vashem this week, in an event highlighting the common values of the victims of both Darfur and the Holocaust.
Avner Shalev, Chairman of Yad Vashem, welcomed the refugees, stressing the importance of raising public awareness about the genocide in Darfur. Some 400,000 people are believed to have been murdered since2003. “As Jews, who have the memory of the Shoah embedded within us, we cannot stand by as refugees from genocide in Darfur are knocking on our doors,” Shalev told the group. “The memory of the past, and the Jewish values that underpin our existence, command us to humanitarian solidarity with the persecuted,” he added. Shalev used Yad Vashem as an example of how the refugees can remember loved ones lost in the crisis in Darfur. “It is important that you already begin to think about ways to remember the events and memorialise the victims,” he said.
