FROM THE ROSENBERG  HOLOCAUST SIDDUR. RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG "These bitter herbs which we eat, what is their meaning? They are eaten to recall that the Egyptians embittered the lives of our forefathers in Egypt."                                    The past is never far away; it comes back uninvited, is unexpected and unwanted. In sleep and in wakefulness                my yesterdays come back again, they morph into today. My nightmares become daymares.                                Sometimes a vision calls it up: someone dressed in unifor, leading a dog on...

 FROM THE ROSENBERG HOLOCAUST HAGADDAH BY RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG 1 Blood - Auschwitz-Birkenau 2. Frogs - Belzec 3. Vermin - Buchenwald 4. Wild Animals - Chalmno 5. Cattle Disease - Dachau 6. Boils - Majdanek 7. Hail - Mauthausen 8. Locusts - Plaszow 9. Darkness - Sobibor 10. Death of the Firstborn - Treblinka

FROM THE ROSENBERG HOLOCAUST HAGGADAH BY RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG When Israel was in Egypt land. Let my people go! Oppressed so hard they could not stand. Let my people go! Go down Moses, way down in Egypt land. Let my people go! Lord told Moses what to do, let my people go! Tell ol' Pharaoh. Let my people go!  If not I'll smite your first-born dead.  Let my people go! To lend the children of Israel through,  Let my people...

FROM THE ROSENBERG HOLOCAUST HAGGADAH BY RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG The Torah explains the meaning of Passover in four different ways, according to the questions put by four different types of children. And so now we sing the ,"Ballad of the Four Sons," written by Ben Aronin. THE BALLAD OF THE FOUR SONS Said the father to his children, At the Seder you will dine, You will eat your fill of Matzoh, You will drink four cups of wine. Now this...

  In the Haggadah it says, "And the Egyptians did evil to us and they made us suffer. They set upon us hard work." This is the story of how the Nazis, like the Egyptians, were taskmasters over your grandparents.   This is a letter I sent to my youngest son, Ari, 18, who is a student at Yeshivat Shaarei Mevaseret Zion in Israel. He went on the Heritage Tour to Poland last month with hundreds of other students. Each is asked to...

By Rabbi Dr. Bernhard H. Rosenberg       In the Haggadah it states, " It is our duty to thank and to praise in song and prayer, to glorify and extol Him who performed all these wonders for our forefathers and for us. "  I, as a son of survivors thank God for allowing my parents to survive and giving me the opportunity to study and become a Rabbi."             I personally feel no guilt for having the God-given privilege of being alive.  I...

By Rabbi Dr. Bernhard H. Rosenberg As a child of survivors of the Nazi death camps who has published extensive articles and editorials regarding the Holocaust, I am deeply disturbed and sense the deep pangs of anguish of those who still cannot either comprehend or appreciate the true acts of heroism which prevailed. As a practicing rabbi who refuses to allow the memories of the past to be distorted, I appeal to our fellow Jew: “Never forget the acts of heroism...

The Haggadah tells us, "In every generation they rise against us and seek our destruction."  Remember and learn from the past        To me, the Holocaust is much more than a tragic event in Jewish and world history.  To me, it was a wake up call. In the pre-Holocaust era, European Jewry was rapidly looking to assimilate. Jews were holding some of the most prestigious positions in society. Ranging from doctors to musicians to professors and even politicians, some Jews were so...

                                                                        LAMENT                                                                 Where were You, Adonai *,                                                             in that black, bitter, unending night?                                                             Were You asleep?                                                             Unconscious? Comatose?                                                             Or did You go away?                                                             How can we appeal to You                                                             when You are not there?                                                             Did You forsake us?                                                               Where were You, Adonai,                                                             when we needed Your help?                                                             We wept for You                                                             but were not comforted.                                                             We cried out to You                                                             but were not answered.                                                             We prayed to You,                                                             but our prayer did not rise.                                                               Where were You, Adonai,                                                             when we labored as...