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1 My own personal memories are of all that happened when the Nazis occupied Poland during the war. I remember my Jewish friends and neighbours, some of whom perished, while others survived. I have come to Yad Vashem to pay homage to the millions of Jewish people who, stripped of everything, especially of human dignity, were murdered in the Holocaust. More than half a century has passed, but the memories remain. Here, as at Auschwitz and many other places in Europe, we are overcome by the echo of the heart-rending laments of so many. Men, women and children, cry out to us from the depths of the horror that they knew. How can we fail to heed their cry? No one can forget or ignore what happened. No one can diminish its scale. [] 2 On March 21,1942 the Ghetto was raided by Einsatzgrouppen and 3700 Jews, men women and children were driven en to a ditch, about a mile from the Ghetto and shot in cold blood. A few months later, about 2000 people were caught in a so called Action (Pogrom), loaded into cattle cars and driven to the Belzec Death Camp, for gassing. Three months later, on the day of Atonement of 1942, the Germans raided the Ghetto, catching the people praying in makeshift synagogues. Again about 1500 people were packed into cattle trains, and without food, water taken for gassing to Belzec. []