Shortly after World War II,
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, who became the first President of Israel, visited the concentration
camps of Eastern Europe. He saw emaciated
bodies, squalid living quarters, even scratch marks on the walls which helped
inmates count the number of days spent in that hell upon earth. Moved and angered by what they witnessed,
some of the people who accompanied Dr. Weizmann turned to him and said: “Dr.
Weizmann, what are we going to do about this?
How shall we Jews get our revenge on these beasts who perpetrated such
crimes?”
Dr. Weizmann answered: “The
Jews do not seek revenge. The Jews build.”
-Rabbi Louis Tuchman
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