RITUAL OF REMEMBRANCE

On this night of the Seder, we remember with reverence and love the six million of our people who perished at the hands of a tyrant more wicked than Pharoah. Come, said he to his minions, let us cut them off from being a people, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more. And they slew the blameless and pure, men and women and little ones, with vapors of poison and burned them with fire. But we abstain from dwelling on the deeds of the evil ones lest we defame the image of God in which man was created.

Now, the remnants of our people who were left in the ghettos and camps of annihilation rose up against the wicked ones for the sanctification of the Name, and slew many of them before they died. On the first day of Passover, the remnants in the ghetto of Warsaw rose up against the adversary, even as in the days of Judah the Maccabee. They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided, and they brought redemption to the name of Israel through all the world.

And from the depths of their affliction the martyrs lifted their voices in a song of faith in the coming of the Messiah, when justice and brotherhood will reign among men.

They sang “Ani Maamin” (“I Believe”), the song of the martyrs in the Ghettos and liquidation camps.

“I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the

Messiah; and though he tarry, none the less do I believe.”

Ani Maamin, Ani Maamin, Ani Maamin

Beemuna shleymo, beemuna shleymo

Beviat hamashiach, beviat hamashiach, Ani Maamin


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