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Many
of the distinguished guests who have come to Yad Vashem over the
years, have stopped and signed the Visitors' Book, sharing their immediate reactions to what they
have seen and experienced at Yad Vashem. Presented here are some of
the meaningful parting thoughts that fill our Visitors' Books.
Former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat 20/11/1977
May God guide our steps towards
peace. Let us end all suffering for
mankind.
Former
US President Bill Clinton 28/10/94
Today we stand one step closer to
the time when the people of Israel live in
peace with their neighbors, when the awful events here
memorialized will be buried in the
past, when the people of Israel never suffer
and die simply
because of their race and faith. May
God bring it to pass.
Prime Minister United Kingdom Tony Blair 19/4/98
This is my second visit here. I have
never forgotten the first time. I shall
never forget this.
The torment and anguish of the
Jewish people in the Holocaust are the most vivid
expression of the suffering humanity has known.
But your courage, determination, and
essential dignity through this agony and since, also
describe humanity’s best chance of hope for
the future. We will never forget or if we do, we
will repeat the mistakes and tragedies of
history.
US
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice
August 2000
Thank you for remembering. Perhaps
by remembering we can try to pledge that it should not happen
again.
God bless those who have made this
place possible- and God bless the memories of those
souls remembered here
Prof. Elie Wiesel 5/11/2000
To be indifferent to suffering is
what makes the human being inhuman. Indifference,
after all, is more dangerous than anger and
hatred.
Former
Israeli Chief
of Staff Amnon Lipkin Shahak 20/4/98
Today the General Staff visited
the Mount of Remembrance in order to remember, to see and to
understand- not the Holocaust which is incomprehensible to
understand in human terms, but to understand our task, here in
this country as the successors of those who
perished there, to understand the importance of a Jewish
homeland, safety and security for the Jewish
people and to understand the awesome responsibility that we bear
as the General Staff of Israel’s Defense Forces.
Former US Secretary of State
Warren
Christopher 23/2/93
I am deeply moved by this powerful
evocation of the past. The memory of the Holocaust, kept alive
within these walls, serves as an enduring challenge to humanity
to find the courage to preserve human dignity and the resolution
to fight intolerance and hatred wherever it exists.
Former
Foreign Minister Egypt Amr Moussa 31/8/94
The visit brought bad memories of
the past
cruelties against felled human
beings based on racial feelings that are abhorrent. I only hope
that the
future shall never permit that to
happen again…to any nation, any people, any children.
Prince Philip
United Kingdom 30/10/94
“God brings everything we do to
judgment “(Ecc 12)
US Secretary of
State Colin
Powell 25/2/2001
At this place of honor
for those who died, let us vow never to forget and always to
remember. Their spirit will live with us forever.
Former US Vice
President Al Gore 3/24/95
The Yad Vashem memorial captures all
too vividly the unspeakable horror experienced by the Jewish
people during the Holocaust.
At the same time, it is a testament
to the courage and determination of those who risked everything
to save Jewish lives.
Copyright ©2004 Yad Vashem
The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
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