“Burn them, as my world and everything I loved burned in Auschwitz’s Crematorium”

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Yechiel De-Nur felt that “Yechiel Feiner” was destroyed in the Holocaust, and so he wanted to destroy the book he published before the Holocaust.

Author Yechiel Feiner, born in 1909, is known as the greatest authors of and after the Holocaust. Feiner renamed himself Yechiel De-nur and later chose a pen name imbued with meaning: Ka-Tsetnik 135633, taken from KZ – the short form the Nazis used for “Konzentrationslager,” German for concentration camp.

Before the Holocaust, in 1931, Yechiel Feiner published a book of Yiddish poetry titled “Twenty-Two” (צווייאונצוואנציק in Yiddish). After the war, any time he heard there was a copy of the book available in the National Library of Israel, Ka-Tsetnik would come to the Library, borrow out the book, and destroy it. Ka-Tsetnik did this three times between 1953 and 1993.

Ka-Tsetnik’s letter to Shlomo Goldberg, 1993

In 1953 and 1964 he burned the available copies of his book. In 1993, he wrote a letter to Shlomo Goldberg, the manager of the library stacks at the time, about the third and last time he destroyed the book. He shredded the publication and sent the remains of the book together with the letter in an envelope to Goldberg.

Pieces of the copy shredded by Ka-Tsetnik

“I have another request: I placed here the remains of the ‘book.’ Please, burn them as my world and everything I loved burned in Auschwitz’s Crematorium.”

It seems that Yechiel De-Nur felt that Yechiel Feiner had been destroyed in the Holocaust, along with everything dear to him. Moreover, De-Nur viewed everything Feiner created before the Holocaust as meaningless. As far as he was concerned, the Holocaust had utterly destroyed the world that existed before. Ka-Tsetnik, writing after the Holocaust, had nothing to do with Feiner and the work he created and published.

Ka-Tsetnik collapses during Adolf Eichmann’s trial, 1961. Photo credit: GPO

During Eichmann’s trial where De-Nur was a witness, Ka-Tsetnik called Auschwitz “another planet”. For Ka-Tsetnik there were three distinct worlds, before the Holocaust, during the Holocaust, and after the Holocaust and everything that he had created before the Holocaust could not be tolerated.

Yechiel De-Nur passed away on July 17, 2001. The Library still holds an intact copy of the book De-Nur tried so hard to destroy.

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Women for the Wall founder Leah Aharoni says EU working with left-wing groups to destroy Israeli religious community from within.

Leah Aharoni, one of the founders of Women for the Wall, a religious organization which opposes the Women of the Wall group which stages provocations at the Western Wall every month, spoke to Arutz Sheva about the New Israel Fund’s attempts to influence religious organizations in Israel.

Last week, several leading religious Zionist rabbis – Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Rabbi Dov Lior and Rabbi Shlomo Aviner – caledl on religious Zionist organizations not to accept funds from the New Israel Fund (NIF).

The video was produced by the “Hotam” organization as part of a campaign against religious organizations funded by the NIF. The campaign’s leaders claim that the NIF has set itself the goal of changing Israeli society from within by penetrating religious Zionist organizations.

“Twenty-five years ago, I was a young, 20-something-year-old woman, and I got an opportunity to join a program to learn more about democracy and leadership,” Aharoni said. “We got together, about 30 young women, all of us from the religious community, and we got a 500 shekel monthly scholarship that we got in cash in an envelope. And every week we would have a meeting with another thought leader. But what happened was the thought leaders all had the same thoughts. They were all left-wing and pretty radical.”

She said that the meetings took place with people from Israel and Europe who called the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria “evil” and alleged oppression of religious Jewish women.

“After a few weeks we figured out what was going on, and we asked where the money was coming from. Where was that money in cash coming from? And we didn’t get an answer.

“After two years, it came out that the sponsor was the European Union, and the idea was to brainwash a small but high-quality group of men and women in the religious community and have them spread these ideas inside the community,” she said.

“This is the method that the New Israel fund and the European Union have used in the religious and haredi communities ever since. What’s the idea? They find young, idealistic people who have important issues that they would like to advance in the community. They give them training. They give them funding. And then they make them part of this ecosystem. And this group of young, religious, idealistic leaders are now becoming a Trojan Horse who are now advancing leftist,liberal, and sometimes anti-religious values inside the religious community.

“This is the method the New Israel Fund is using to bring down the religious community, to bring down the Jewish identity of Israel, and to ultimately turn Israel into a nation of all its citizens.

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