Masada was the first catastrophe in the long series of catastrophes that led to Auschwitz. Roman Palestine was built on the ashes of Masada and Judea, much like the Arab Palestine our enemies seek to build on the ashes of Israel and Auschwitz. Seek to be a modern-day Winston Churchill- not a Neville Chamberlain- by denouncing the 2-State solution as nothing more than appeasement of the enemies of civilization. Thank you.

The Brits shed more crocodile tears over the holocaust than other anti-semites. An absolutely disgusting display by the masters of hypocracy.

That's a nice column. However the Jewish people now has enemies hell bent on it's destruction. If you would have publically declared your support for Israel's war on Hamas Islamic supremecist terror then I would consider voting for you. However I shall never vote for you or your party!

Mr. Brown, we defeat hate by shunning people like Hezbollah, who openly profess this exact hatred, not by opening a futile dialogue with them. If you begin practising what you preach, you'll find us a more believing audience.

Ah, yes, The "man's inhumanity to man" experience. He honors and respects the innocents who perished, and the determination of those who survived to go on living, not to abandon hope. Fast forward to today. Anti-semitism is getting worse in his own UK, not to mention the rest of Europe. There's just one state in the world that considers itself "Jewish" (as against the 57 that consider themselves "Islamic") in which reside more than 40% of the world's Jews. Brown's sympathies and 50p might buy him a cup of coffee, but not much more. The fact is Muslims outnumber Jews 100:1, Arabs outnumber Israeli Jews about 50:1, and European Muslims outnumber European Jews at least 25:1. So go ahead, shed a tear for dead Jews. Some of us are more concerned by Brown's actions and attitudes to those today under threat.

but heartfelt and beautifully written passage. Thank you, Mr. Brown.

that Labour party is in huge trouble and no one respects and votes for his plans in the House of Commons. Therefore, he and his party are about to lose power in Britain. That is why he is writing this to rally the Jewish community to sponsor and vote for him. For more about Arab-Israeli Conflict please visit: http://israelactnow.blogspot.com/

from the holocaust by order of the german high command.this is a fact of history that all of us can go to a library and read for ourselves. why would germany's government turn a blind eye to these religious jews and declare them non jews and forbid their ss from touching them ? i know this sounds harsh ,i do not mean to be harsh,my heart goes out to all my family that suffered but why were some spared while others were not? why would G-D intervene in the affairs of men in such a manner as this ?

More nonsense. Jews are being attacked now by bombs and rockets by enemies desperate to kill the Jewish people and you are silent! You will never get my vote!

she was deeply moved. first time i ever saw a high level political figure cry at the death camp. now with brown's article on auschwitz, it's evident they do care about the jewish people. bless them.

your hollow words. It was your country, after all, that sealed the fate of the Jews by closing off all emigration to Palestine in 1937. I see no difference between killing someone and not letting someone live. The outcome is the same.

Sir,A very well written piece,thank you.Obviously,the visit to the hell called (I can barely bring myself to even mention the name) Auschwitz must have been extremely sobering and enough to put the willies up anyone.I guess it kind of puts matters such as economic recession and political scandals in to perspective.I personally respect you very much,even more so after reading your heartfelt and sincere article.Keep up the good work and NIL CARBORUNDUM :Do not let the critics get you down sir.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown gets it,he understood perfectly the magnitude of evil perpetrated in that awful place.To Mr Brown:RESPECT.

So how come you have taken study of shoah out of the school curriculum? What are the Muslims sensitive about? The truth is too close to home?

Answers anybody...did Brown know it was mitzvah al pi al Sefer Mitzvot (Nachmanides edition) to maintain settlement and sovereignty in Israel? And yet this lame hypocrite speaks of Dead Ashkenazi Jews walking long ago performing Mitzvot? Weird eh? Cameron for PM! GO Team Cameron!

The real question is whether you learnt the lesson deeply enough to look at the Arab-Israeli conflict through the revelation of cold, hard reality and to infer accordingly. Then you can say you do subscribe to the sentiment "Never Again". Otherwise, you subscribe to the path of least resistance, to easy slogans and to cowardly self-delusion about what the Arabs inexorably intend. And your words will be nothing but empty platitudes which will find no favour with your conscience or with God. It's your choice.

This is another example of meaningles talk. UK government has allowed the soon to happen islamization of UK .Is Brown even aware of the fact, that his country has banned the Holocaust studies, because it was offending the muslims majority in his country, who deny the Holocaust.... It is so easy to love dad Jews, isn't it Mr. Brown ? If a visit to Auschwitz didn't teach you a lesson - neither you or your people are immune from a Christian Holocaust,complements of Radica Islam....

All the light and hope in the world is pointless if you allow evil and darkness to death, or burn it in a nuclear holocaust. I'm very disappointed in this column. At a time when Iran is threatening to destroy another six million Jews, and Britain is again standing idly by, and while the BBC demonizes the Jews for not gracefully committing suicide, we get this meaningless flim-flam column, which makes no attempt to derive any lesson from the Shoah that would make any difference. Contrast this flim-flam with Reverend Martin Niemoller's immortal words: "In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist; And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist; And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew; And then... they came for me... And by that time there was no one left to speak up." Remember that.

What exactly is his game here?

Nothing can bring the millions of Shoah dead back.Better to try to prevent the future Holocaust.

The Holocaust never ended, just another chapter. The only difference between now and then is that we're now armed and can strike the enemy and that if we want to end the Holocaust, it's 100% up to the Jewish people to end it with maximum force and resolve against the enemies of the Jews. Just like America had no other choice but to become a superpower if she wanted to defend American Exceptionalism (which I happen to believe in), Israel has no choice but to become a superpower if we want fulfill our duty to be a light unto the nations and pillars of western civilization, reject hellenism and assimilation.

Actually, it's "nil illegitimitatis carborundum" --- Don't let the bastards wear you down. However, if you wish to say "Don't let the critics wear you down," it would be "nil velico carborundum." Thought you might want to know that.

Even the German acknowledge. Nazi records prove and tens of thousands of American, British and Soviet soldiers witnessed it. You are one stupid, racist, dirtbag moron.

I have never come across this piece of information. What encyclopedia have you found this in? Why did the Germans spare them?

I quote Mr. Brown"Never touched the walls of gas chambers where human hands have gouged the brick in terror and despair". Which Auschwitz was he at. The gas chambers dont exist in any form but rubble(they were blown up), so you could not have seen this there? I know ive been there. Yes there are gas chambers still around, but at other death camps-so please get facts right 1st. No i am not denying the holocaust, just correcting the facts.

Ken Loach is a brilliant playwright, undoubtedly a humanist whose understanding of the Middle East could be written on a pin in large letters. Please Mr Brown, condemn his actions.

Spare me your hollow words. It was your country, after all, that sealed the fate of the Jews by closing off all emigration to Palestine in 1937. I see no difference between killing someone and not letting someone live. The outcome is the same. Sarah , New York City, USA (05.21.09) I AGREE TO AL THIS YOUR WORDS AS SUCH, BUT, THE PM DONT SEEM TO HAVE THE NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND FORCE OF GB, TO UNDERSTAND THIS, ONLY HIS PRIVATE PERSONALITY. I CAN ALSO SAY AMEN TO MOST OF THE PMs WORD. THIS INSIGHT GIVES ONE THE OBLIGATION BEFORE JEHOVAH, TO A MENTAL STANDING WITH ISRAEL AND THE JEWS. IT ALSO AROUSES A FIELING OF, THE FIERSEST RAGE AND HATE WITHIN, TO SUCH EVILNESS, VHICH BY IGNORENCE TODAY, IN THE FOOLS OF TODAYS LIVING ENEMIES OF THE JEWS AND ISRAEL, ARE CONTINUING. ANYHOW, I AS A GOY , ARE NOT WORTHY OF SPEAKING IN THIS MATTER BEFORE JEWS AND ISRAEL, NO GOY AS SUCH ARE. FOREGIVE ME FOR THIS ???. JEHOVAH BLESS ISRAEL AND THE JEWS, THEY ARE THE HOPE BEFOREFORE JEHOVAH TO THE WORLD. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWSATpx7uzk Orao.

Today Hamas and Achmadinejed openly preach genocide against Israel[a one stage solution] the so called moderates have the same aim but are more pragmatic they call it the two state solution or two stage solution one lesson of the holocaust is to recognise that the moderates and extremists have the same aim but different methods Evil cannot be compromised with it has to be eradicated.The answer is not education,education education but....

they completed their calendar reforms and it was fixed as now in 1000 ce. the rabbis calculated calendar would have us keep G-D's holydays on time only 1 year out of 7 on average what possible difference could that make in this day and age? look at leviticus 23:26-32. the english translation of the tanakh neglects the hebrew word-ak=exactly/only for the 10 th. day of the 7th month..there is only 1 exact day that aarons sons would have us keep the day of atonement. G-D says that if we work on that exact day that we would be destroyed from among His people -verse30. the karaites keep this day exactly every year,the rabbis and those that follow them do not. all the info on the calendar and karaites is readily available to all in the many past editions of the encyclopedia judaica.