United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The Power of Truth: 20 Years
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Gad remembers giving a ‘Heil Hitler!’ salute as he entered the chaotic assembly camp at Grosse Hamburger Strasse, part of which was the site of the former Jewish school where Gad had once been a student. “The Jew Manfred Israel Lewin was brought here yesterday,” Gad said to the SS Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel). “He worked for us and is a saboteur! He has the keys to several of the apartments we are renovating.” Manfred was summoned.

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But suddenly from the blackest depths
A gentle voice came echoing
Looking down I wondered who might be calling out to me
Although the voice was one I knew at once!

It was the voice of a sacred power
It was the sound of souls in harmony
It was the essence of our humanity
The quality we must never lose.