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Monday, May 6, 2024
Ohana lights memorial candle at Knesset to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana lights a memorial candle at the entrance vestibule of the Knesset as part of the “Unto every person there is a name” ceremony marking Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day.
He recalls the short life of Ada Dadosh, who was born in the Giado concentration camp in Libya.
“At the age of 3 months she fell ill with pneumonia. Her father Yosef helplessly approached the camp doctor whom he called ‘hell on earth’ and asked him for a cure. The doctor held her, took a syringe, stabbed and injected it into her body. Her heart stopped beating. It wasn’t medicine that the devil injected, but poison that the devil injected,” he says.
“May the memory of Ada Dadosh, along with the six million who perished, be blessed forever.”
