Friday, May 3,1985 / The Jewish Floridian of Tampa Page 5
>hor Remember!
ty Years After Liberation
Where was God's mercy -
where was God? 
They died as many deaths
as daemons could devise:
shunted into the stench
of barrack shiels;
savaged by vicious tools
in ghoulish fists;
starved to the marrow;
wasted every hour
until our souls froze
upon blistered lips.
Yet, we survived
in the bruised nakedness
of tortured wills. 
There's no forgetting
those sered body heaps
which could not be interred
for lack of earth;
the toxic showers,
the putrid palls of smoke
that shrouded day
and surfeited the night.
When unbelieving troops
broke down the gates,
they retched
at what they saw .
then helped us live!
The nightmares stalk us still,
the numbers scar our arms.
We argue
with our God
and question
His Existence 
But we exist
and save a stubborn faith
for our children's sake;
and shall bear witness
long beyond the silence
of unknown graves.
-December 26,1984
Editor's Note: Written by Dr. Hans Juergenson and recited by
him at the Yom Hashoah program April 26.
Participants in the recently held community
observance of Yom Hashoah Day of
Remembrance are pictured above (left to right):
Nat Doliner, Chairman of the Tampa Jewish
Federation Holocaust Memorial Committee;
Rabbi David Brusin, Headmaster of the HiUel
School; David Zohar, Holocaust Survivor and
member of the Tampa Jewish Federation Board
nf Directors; Cantor Isaak Goodfriend, AA
Synagogue of Atlanta and guest speaker; Judith
0 Rosenkranz, President of the Tampa Jewish
Federation; Dr. Hans Juergensen, moer?lLhf.
US Holocaust Memorial Council; and BUt
Kalish, Chairman of the Tampa Jewish
Federation Community Relations Committee
Also participating but not pictured was Rabbi
Frank Sundheim of Congregation Schaarai
Zedek, president of the Tampa Rabbinical
Association.
Lighting memorial candles in memory of six
million Jews and millions of on-J*ws.who
perished in the Holocaust are (left to nghtl
Judith Pressman, Henry Zyndorf Sylvia Zyn-
dorf, Sam Gross, Alfred Wasserberger Sonja
Wasserberger, Solomon Pila, Herta Pda, Sam
Reiber, and Reverend Billy Barber. The annual
community commemoration is sponsored by the
Tampa Jewish Federation and was held at
Congregation Schaarai Zedek. Over 400 par-
ticipated in the inspiring and moving program
held on April 26.
 
VOTE MAY
County Government
must achieve results
and not just spend your
tax dollars.
^porter 'TampaJe
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Post Office Box 13541
Tampa, FL 33681
(813)837-0039
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