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Kavanàh - Text fragments

(...) The prayer "El Mole Rachamim", "Lord of mercy", was written to conmemorate the massacres which took place in the year one thousand, during the Crusades, and which continued throughout the whole milenium up until Auschwitz. This prayer remembers those who died from a violent death, those whose life was cut short unfairly and prematurely. After the Nazi slaughter, this prayer has become emblematic of that tragic experience. In eternal menory, it contains the names of three sadly famous concentration camps, Auschwitz, Mauthausen e Treblinka. (...)

"El Mole Rachamim", text:

God, full of mercy, who dwells in the heights, who has found His rest upon the Divine Presence's wings, within the range of the holy and the pure, whose shining resemble the sky's and that of our brothers, the pure saintly ones who fell at the hands of the assassins. Their blood was spilt at Auschwitz, Maidanek, Treblinka and the other death camps of Europe, exterminated through an inconceivable and ferocious death. Their sacrifice was for the Sanctification of the Name, in order for their sons and daughters, their brothers and sisters to promise that justice be done in remembrance of their souls. May they rest in Paradise and may the Lord of Mercy protect them forever under his wings and keep their souls alive eternally. God is their heritage and they shall rest peacefully upon their lying places forever. Let us say: Amen
   
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