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Menachem Z. Rosensaft
American lawyer (born 1948)
Menachem Z. Rosensaft | |
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| Born | (1948-05-01) May 1, 1948 (age 76) Bergen-Belsen, Germany |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Spouse | Jean Bloch Rosensaft |
Menachem Z. Rosensaft (born 1948) is an attorney in New York and the founding chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.[1] He has been described on the front page of The New York Times as one of the most prominent of the survivors' sons and daughters.[2] He has served as national president of the Labor Zionist Alliance, and was active in the early stages of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. As psychologist Eva Fogelman has written: "Menachem Rosensaft's moral voice has gone beyond the responsibility he felt as a child of survivors to remember and educate. He felt the need to promote peace and a tolerant State of Israel as well. He wanted to bring to justice Nazi war criminals, to fight racism and bigotry, and to work toward the continuity of the Jewish people".[3]
Menachem Rosensaft is general counsel emeritus of the World Jewish Congress, the umbrella organization of Jewish communities around the world based in New York.[4] In September 2023, he stepp
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Menachem Z. Rosensaft: Dawn follows even the darkest of nights
This essay by Menachem Z. Rosensaft, the general counsel of the World Jewish Congress, first appeared as a part of Jewish Book Council's Visiting Scribe series. Find thousands of Jewish interest books, discussion questions, essays, reading lists, and more here.
Dawn follows even the darkest of nights
Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz,we are at a transitional moment. For the past 70 years, the survivors of the Shoah kept the memory of what had been done to them, to their families, and to European Jewry at the forefront of their society’s consciousness. Sadly but inevitably, they are now fading from the scene. The critical question, therefore, is how their absence will change the nature of Holocaust remembrance.
Historian Lucy Dawidowicz once described my father, who had survived Auschwitz-Birkenau, months of torture in the notorious Block 11 at Auschwitz, the cavernous underground tunnels of Dora-Mittelbau where Wernher von Braun’s V-2 rockets were manufactured, and Bergen-Belsen as “our Ancient Mariner, who passes, ‘like night, from land to land,’ with ‘strange power of speech’ to tell his tale to whomsoever will listen.”
And so it was for many of the survivors, each haunted by, at times ob
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