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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 23:55:13 +0200
Subject: [donneinnero] Fw: [Palmem] Fwd: Dutch nonagenarian returns Righteous Among the Nations medal after six relatives killed in Gaza
Un nonuagenario olandese restituisce allo stato di Israele la medaglia
ricevuta da sua madre per aver salvato un bambino ebreo durante l'occupazionwe
nazista...
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http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/.premium-1.610682
Dutch
nonagenarian returns Righteous Among the Nations medal after six relatives
killed in Gaza
Henk
Zanoli, who helped save a Jewish child from deportation to concentration camps,
said holding on to the medal would be an 'insult to the
family.'
By Amira
Hass | Aug.
15, 2014 | 2:20 AM
A
91-year-old Dutch man who was declared a Righteous Among the Nations for saving
a Jew during the German occupation on Thursday returned his medal and
certificate because six of his relatives were killed by an Israeli bombing in
the Gaza Strip last month.
In 2011,
the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum declared Henk Zanoli and his late mother, Johana
Zanoli-Smit, Righteous Among the Nations for having saved a Jewish child,
Elhanan Pinto, during the Nazi occupation of Holland. Pinto, born in 1932, was
hidden by the Zanoli family from the spring of 1943 until the Allies liberated
Holland in 1945. His parents perished in Nazi death camps.
In
hiding a Jewish child, the Zanoli family took a double risk, because it was
already under Nazi scrutiny for having opposed the German occupation. Zanoli’s
father was sent to the Dachau concentration camp in 1941 due to his opposition
to the occupation, and he subsequently died at the Mauthausen concentration camp
in February 1945. Henk Zanoli’s brother-in-law was executed because of his
involvement in the Dutch resistance, and one of his brothers had a Jewish
fiancée, who was also killed by the Nazis.
Zanoli’s
great-niece, Angelique Eijpe, is a Dutch diplomat who currently serves as deputy
head of her country’s diplomatic mission in Oman. Her husband, economist Isma’il
Ziadah, was born in the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. The couple has
three children. Ziadah’s parents were born in Fallujah, on whose lands the town
of Kiryat Gat now sits. His father died in 1987.
On
Sunday, July 20, an Israeli fighter jet dropped a bomb on the Ziadah family’s
home in al-Bureij. The bomb killed the family matriarch, Muftiyah, 70; three of
her sons, Jamil, Omar and Youssef; Jamil’s wife, Bayan; and their 12-year-old
son, Shaaban. The bombing thus orphaned Jamal and Bayan’s other five children,
four daughters and a son, while bereaving Omar’s two sons and Youssef’s three
sons and a daughter of their fathers. The bombing also killed Mohammed Maqadmeh,
who happened to be visiting the family that day.
Zanoli,
an attorney by profession, heard about the killing of the Ziadah family from his
niece. As a way of expressing his shock and pain, he decided to return the medal
and certificate that were awarded to him and his mother (posthumously) as
Righteous Among the Nations. Because of his age and poor health, he did not do
so in person, but sent them by messenger to the Israeli Embassy in The Hague –
the same place where he received them in an official ceremony three years
ago.
In the
accompanying letter, addressed to Ambassador Haim Davon, Zanoli began by
describing the price his family paid for resisting the Nazis and their
successful effort to save a Jewish child.
“Against
this background it is particularly shocking and tragic that today, four
generations on, our family is faced with the murder of our kin in Gaza. Murder
carried out by the State of Israel,” he wrote.
“The
great- great grandchildren of my mother have lost their [Palestinian]
grandmother, three uncles, an aunt and a cousin at the hands of the Israeli army
... For me to hold on to the honour granted by the State of Israel, under these
circumstances, will be both an insult to the memory of my courageous mother who
risked her life and that of her children fighting against suppression and for
the preservation of human life as well as an insult to those in my family, four
generations on, who lost no less than six of their relatives in Gaza at the
hands of the State of Israel.”
Noting
that Israel’s actions in Gaza “have already resulted in serious accusations of
war crimes and crimes against humanity,” he continued, “as a retired lawyer it
would be no surprise to me that these accusations could lead to possible
convictions if true and unpoliticized justice is able to have its course. What
happened to our kin in Gaza will no doubt be brought to the table at such a time
as well.”
The
Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson’s Unit did not answer Haaretz’s questions as
to whether the Ziadah home was bombed by mistake, or if not, who in the house
was a target and whether the IDF’s legal department considers the death of six
civilians to be legitimate collateral damage. Its response said merely that the
IDF invests great efforts in trying to avoid civilian casualties, is currently
working to investigate all allegations of irregular incidents and will publish
its conclusions after this investigation is
completed.
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