I wanted to share this very poignant message with the group on Yom Kippur as we examine the past, live in the present and try to preserve our heritage into the future. Project Witness sent the following email. We are about to go into Yom Kippur and the fast. As Jews begin around the world they should remember this passage. When all was in ruins there was this service from those who had been in hiding in Holland for 3 years. NEVER FORGET. "YOM KIPPUR GREETINGSBelow is a (condensed) letter by Cpl. Harry A. Silber to Mr. Springer ( Meir Raphael Springer, Jewish Rescue & Relief Committee, Agudath Israel World Organization, London, England), dated October 1. 1944."Somewhere in Holland":"Yom Kippur" was a day that I shall remember for a long time. I had discovered the remnant of what once must have been [an] unusually beautiful Synagogue in a small town, but what was now only a shelled and charred ruin. I returned early Yom Kippur morning, after having obtained several hours leave for the express purpose of finding if anything remained of the former inhabitants of that Synagogue. I was told that there was a church, where it was rumored that several Jews had been in hiding from the Nazis for a number of years. I immediately hastened to the place, and found upon arrival, that they were just beginning the Morning Services with barely a minyan of men and one woman. These people had been locked in one room for three years, had not been able to communicate with their families all that time ... It was not a day of "penance" for them, it was a day of thankfulness and rejoicing. Though for many it was of sorrow also, as they received news of their loved ones having perished... Each time the front door was heard to open, everyone including the cantor stopped and turned to wait for the newcomer, who was then greeted by everyone individually... They gripped hands silently, studying each other's faces, trying to read the miseries etched thereon, and at the same time nodding with their heads as if to say, "Well, so you are still alive." Then barely audibly one would ask the other, "Who of the others are still among the living?"Yes, that was their Yom Kippur greeting".Agudath Israel World Organization ArchivesJerusalem, Israel"