Beleaguered Los Angelenos find solace in Holocaust commemoration - courtesy of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

For longer than 500 days since Hamas massacred Israelis and abducted hostages, Jewish Los Angelenos have been plagued by anti-Zionist antagonists, amplified by mainstream media. For the Jews (and gentiles) of Los Angeles seeking to mourn the genocide which affected our people (and the entire civilized world) the most prominent public ceremony for Yom ha Shoah ("Catastrophe Day") during the business day of April 24th was presented, of all places, by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in West Los Angeles. 

This has been a tradition which began 41-years ago, according to Dr. Leo Gordon of Surgery Group L.A.  In 1933, Jewish physicians, he explained, were among the first professions to be excluded from professional life by Germany National Socialist government. In some areas, like Munich, Jewish doctors were prohibited from treating non-Jewish patients.   

L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center presented a Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration on April 24, 2025

These restrictions were part of a broader wave of over 400 anti-Jewish laws and decrees between 1933 and 1939, which progressively isolated people with Jewish bloodlines from public and professional life. The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 further entrenched these exclusions, but the 1933 laws specifically targeted civil servants, lawyers, and doctors as the first occupations to be restricted.

The educational and cultural ceremony was
officiated by Rabbi Jason Weiner, executive
director of the Spiritual Care Department
 

Nazis worked and starved Jews and
other inmates to death, as revealed
in documentary film of liberation
of Bergen-Belsen Nazi Camp

Rabbi Jason Weiner, executive director of the Spiritual Care Department, provides contextual overview of this year's ceremony:

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One month after the Axis powers bombed Pearl Harbor, the American weekly news magazine, Collier's, published a cover by European-Jewish refugee artist, Arthur Szyk, depicting the German hierarchy positioned around a globe.

Hermann Goring, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels. Lying on the ground are a dumb-founded Benito Mussolini and Philippe Petain. SS-uniformed skeletons hold sinister messages, such as "All Hope Abandon Ye Who Enter Here," the words Dante's Inferno descirbes as being inscribed over the entrance to Hell. The Earth's equator is encircled with lyrics from the Hitler Youth's official song: "Today, Europe hears us- tomorrow, the whole world!" 

Szyk's "Madness" of Nazi global-conquest which Collier's called Americans to defeat before it consumed them

Irvin Ungar, the Curator of The Arthur Szyk Society and CEO of Historicana, explains that the national weekly magazine was upfront in warning Americans about the sinister nature of the Jew-hating Axis movement- 1-month after Pearl Harbor as America went to war to stop them and save the world from tyranny.

2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, beginning with Auschwitz in Poland. American liberators of camps share their perceptions of the inhumane incineration- which European towns-people tolerated.  
(Video courtesy: Ken Burns "The War" PBS)

British social commentator, Pat Condell, uses the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day to draw attention to the anti-Semitism in Islam and Islamism's inherited Nazi tactics of spurring Jew-hatred toward power and domination.



Horace Frischer, 91, was raised 6-km from Auschwitz. In this exclusive JewTube interview, he discusses his labor-camp enslavement by the Nazi's and subsequent liberation of the camps by Allied Forces during World War II.

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el Husseini, reviewing the Bosnian Muslim Nazi SS Division Handzar in Nov., 1943. El Husseini was instrumental in importing Nazi Jew-hatred methods into the Arab-Jewish Mid-East conflict

Chart showing Allies and Axis military and civilian casualties.

Holocaust drama, "Way to Heaven," explores Jewish dilemma

Norbert Weisser & Talyan Wright Offered the risk of exposing their Nazi imprisoners for Red Cross help, what should the Jewish inmates do? Theatrical drama, "Way to Heaven," portrays this dilemma at the Odyssey Theater through Dec 18. "Engrossing and menacing, Way to Heaven is inspired by the true story of the elaborate deception that took place at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1944 Germany. In order to fool the international Red Cross inspectors, the Nazis constructed a fake village to quell extermination rumors. "A spare and eloquent work. "- NY Times

"Chilling...bracing in it's clarity and moral power." - L.A. Times

"Brilliant performances... a play for the ages." - Park La Brea Press

Norbert Weisser & Bruce Katzman "Kudos magnificos, in whatever language you choose to translate it, to playwright Juan Mayorga." - Park LaBrea Press