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IAF Honors Auschwitz Victims with Flyover


(Jerusalem Post) Arieh O'Sullivan - Three Israeli F-15 fighter jets, some piloted by sons and grandsons of Holocaust survivors, took off Thursday for a fly-past over the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Proudly displaying the blue Star of David, on September 4 the most lethal aircraft in the IAF's arsenal will swoop down low over the train platform where the Nazis held their selections that sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths in gas chambers. Leading the group is Brig.-Gen. Amir Eshel, whose mother's family was wiped out by the Nazis in Poland. The grandparents of another pilot both survived Auschwitz and moved to Israel. Another pilot is the son of partisans who fought the Nazis. In 1992, then IDF Chief of Staff Ehud Barak led a delegation to Auschwitz where he declared, "We got here 50 years too late."
2003-08-29 00:00:00
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