Posted on 12/14/20
| News Source: Arutz-7
The mayor of Poland's capital, that once homed the largest Nazi ghetto in Europe, lit the Hanukkah candles during a Chabad-organized ceremony.
"The light of Hanukkah symbolizes freedom, peace, freedom of religion and tolerance," he said. "This light, as always, will be a symbol of hope, which we need more than ever this year," he added.
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Chabad emissary, Rabbi Stambler, received a touching email from a Warsaw-born Jewish woman living in Amsterdam, who happened to have seen a picture from the event. "I had a picture of the ceremony sent to me. It was very emotional for me: Not all signs of Jewish life disappeared from Warsaw..."
"I was one of the Jews deported from Poland in 1968. I never dreamed that a Hanukkiah would find its way here."
"Anti-Semites or not: Polish Jewry is alive and will continue to prosper," she wrote. Read more at i24