International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust - Stockolm

Here we gathered in the quiet last year in Stockholm Northern Cemetery. January 27th is the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust. Most victims of the Holocaust have no grave, that is no individual grave, with a tombstone and a name.
In my family, we have three types of graves.

• First, a number of mass graves outside the city of Pinsk (formerly Poland now Belarus). Reichsführer-SS Himmler ordered to search the swamp around the city and murder every single Jew that escaped the Einsatz group's first sweep in the region. The captives were then shot to the mass graves where they were killed with shots to the neck. Later at the liquidation of Pinsk Getto the same happened to the rest of my grandfather's family. I never got to experience having an uncle or auntie.
• The next grave type is the big field in Treblinka. There are the ashes of 950,000 choked to death Jews from all over Europe - from Greece and Germany and most of course from Warsaw.
• The third grave type is a single grave. My aunt Sabina has buried in a single grave like this in Warsaw. She died in Warsaw Ghetto in February 1941. Her husband was ′′ liberated ′′ in Bergen-Belsen. Probably died four days afterward and his body is there in one of those mass graves.

In Stockholm, the Jewish Congregation neglected the graves of the Holocaust victims for over 70 years. The General Secretary of the Jewish congregation who applied for funds wrote that they have been forgotten. He wrote it in plagiarism of our application to Stockholm City. The money he received was to go to the continued maintenance of the burials that were uncovered by the efforts of our association. 

What happened to SEK 200,000? Instead, the funds went to an unemployed researcher that is the Jewish Congregation's new favorite. The donor, Swedish National Heritage Board investigates the whole thing and it is possible that the Jewish Congregation will have to refund the amount. The Congregation has already refunded funds that they received from Heckscherska Foundation awarded for the Holocaust Monument. The Monument marked the tombs of the Holocaust victim in a field so overgrown that most people thought it was the place for future funerals.

Since most survivors who came to Sweden with the White Boats dreamt of going to Israel rather than stay in Sweden, our Association brought the earth from Israel and placed it among the graves in the Northern Cemetery to commemorate the victims who are buried there.

The desecration of the Holocaust Monument by the Congregation who took away the 6 memorial stones symbolizing the 6 death camps will probably be in the next White Book written with the funds from the Congregation. The former White Book was one that, among other things, tried to explain the Congregation's actions during Hitler's time, the time we, Jews born outside Sweden, call the Holocaust.

6 stones have names of death camps where the victims of the Holocaust are buried, little siblings, fathers, and mothers.

Remember, today is a day to remember outside not in a warm gold sparkling synagogue. Think of those who are to be remembered today, the victims of the Holocaust. Not the king, queen, or parliament men in a live broadcast.