Jewish Reconstructionist Federation

Cemetary on Mt. Herzl“Slay them not… scatter them abroad.”
- St. Augustine

“This was a painful, surprising betrayal by a culture on which I had pinned all of my hopes, to which I had devoted all of my admiration, my heartfelt ardor.”
- Albert Memmi, A Pillar of Salt

Softly, softly! Let’s be silent!
Graves are growing here
- Shmerl Kaczerginsky, Vilna Ghetto April 1943

“To have stood fast through this and—except for cases of human weakness—to have stayed decent, that is what forged us. This is an unwritten and never to be written page of glory in our history.”
- Heinrich Himmler, Poznan, 1943

“I know that when I stand before God on Judgment Day, I shall not be asked the question posed to Cain—where were you when your brother’s blood was crying out to God.”
- Imre Bathory, one of the “Righteous Among the Nations.”

“Even back there, in the shadow of the chimneys, in the breaks between pain, there was something resembling happiness… For me, the happiness there will always be the most memorable experience, perhaps.”
- Imre Kertesz, Fateless