Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club will devote the next two days to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust
Today and tomorrow, Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club will mark Holocaust Remembrance Day with a number of activities at the club's Youth Division. After Maccabi squad members Eran Zahavi and Sheran Yeini appeared in promotional pictures for the annual "March of the Living" which will begin today, the Maccabi Tel Aviv Youth Division will begin their commemoration this morning with the placement at the Division's training ground of a display about the Warsaw ghetto next to an Israeli flag and a traditional commemorative "yahrzeit" candle. Coaches of all the Youth Division teams, from the Under-19s down to the soccer schools, will be reading from texts marking the day and the connection between the club's colours and the yellow star the Jews of Europe were forced to wear by the Nazi occupiers.
Tomorrow, youngsters from the Under-17s and 16s will gather together to view the film "Numbered", in which an array of holocaust survivors, Jews and non-Jews alike, who still carry the numbers that were tattooed first on their chests and later on their arms at the Auschwitz concentration camp, bear witness to the circumstances surrounding these horrible events . It is estimated that of the 400,000 prisoners who had numbers tattooed on their arms at Auschwitz and its associated camps, only several thousand are alive today. The story's hero is in fact the tattooed number itself, its essence and evolution in the course of the close to 75 years of its existence. Those scars, physically uniform and anonymous as they may be, are revealed in all their variety and as still vital after all these many years.
Here below isa video of the senior team's visit last year to the Holocaust memorial museum "Yad Vashem".
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