Jews and Muslims journey to Holocaust memorials together

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 Carol Forsloff - In a recent press release by Religion News Service, Jews and Muslims discuss their moving experience in traveling to Auschwitz to see the Holocaust memorials and to verify
the killing of the Jews.

 At a time when Jews and Muslims are warring with each other in parts of the Middle East, a journey by Jews and Muslims to these historic sites was unique for the participants and
for those who only know of the problems between these two groups.

RNS quotes Rabbi Jack Bemporad of the Center for Interreligious Understanding in Carlstadt.  He is the individual responsible for having organized the trip of Muslims and Jews to travel across the Atlantic to
visit the historic sites where Jews had been killed.

“The best way to convince someone about the truth of something is to let them see it for themselves and experience it for themselves,” said Rabbi Jack Bemporad of the Center for Interreligious Understanding in
Carlstadt, who organized the trip.

“I feel that it was important to take Muslim leaders who have a really significant following in the American-Muslim community,”Rabbi Bernporad was reported to say.

The trip also developed in response to the more extremist thinking among some Muslims, as well as right-wing groups in the United States, that
the Holocaust didn't happen.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad underlined last year something he had been saying for several years, maintaining the holocaust a myth, and  "a false pretext to create Israel."

The trip by Muslims and Jews to Holocaust memorials in part had its purpose in reminding people those who deny that the Holocaust happened have really been telling a lie.