BERLIN - The leaders of the Jewish community in Berlin on Wednesday to create a menorah 20 feet (six feet) high on the Hanukkah story in the context of one of the most important symbols in Germany Brandenburg Gate.
Eight rabbis pressed against a bitter wind to put up the menorah large metal, holding nine candles on the central square, as every year since 2003.
"This place is for Germany, the Statue of Liberty is America," said Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal The Associated Press. "Therefore, it is very important for us at this point that once put the essence of darkness and evil, light tone. "
Hanukkah marks the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in the second century BC and the miracle of a small amount of oil discovered a period of eight days. He begins this year at sundown on Wednesday.
The Brandenburg Gate, the setting of anti-Semites of Nazi soldiers and the Berlin Wall, which divided the city has been kept for decades.
More than 200,000 German Jews, 6 million in Europe, died in the Holocaust. At the end of the Second World War in 1945 there were only 10,000 to 15,000 Jews in Germany.
Current government policies are seen to swell the number of Jews here, to 200,000 - still a minority in a country of 82 million, but that has always inspired when a young generation trying to define.
The newly elected President of Germany, the Jews, Dieter Graumann, said the newspaper taz, which Germany won the aging Jewish community for young people and ensure that the needs of the Holocaust should not be one property, cement Jews to be together. "
The menorah is next to a 56-feet (17 meters) tall decorated Christmas tree set up last week in office. including a group of school children and a woman dressed as a reindeer - - stopped the show cold, 16 F (-9 C) time large crowds of meetings at the ceremony, although many tourists are present.
But it is not too worried Teichtal, reminds visitors there is a large enough quantity that they can not see.
"We think it looks like six million Jewish souls are in heaven and say," Bravo. Answer they do with light, good works and to get people involved, "he said.
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