Auschwitz
The museum and shul will be open for tours and prayer from Jan. 24-26.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz highlighted the “worrying and alarming normalization” of antisemitism amid Israel’s 15-month war against Hamas in Gaza.
“Poland is a safe country and any leader visiting Poland is entitled to protection granted by the Ministry of the Interior,” Warsaw told JNS.
"[Warsaw’s] move is politicized and provocative, and an insult to the memory of six million Jews murdered during the Shoah,” said ISGAP executive director Dr. Charles Asher Small.
It is hoped that survivors of the death camp will attend.
Polish media had speculated that the Israeli premier was not traveling for the event due to fear of arrest.
Henri Borlant, together with his brother, sister and father, were crammed into cattle cars with 824 others on July 20, 1942, and deported to Auschwitz.
In recent years, Ebert’s accounts on TikTok and other online platforms garnered more than two million followers.
More than 200,000 children were murdered in the German death camp.
“We live in a world of conspiracy and denial, and we have to fight it by making films such as ours,” says Daniela Völker, who wrote, produced and directed a film about Rudolf Höss.
The message went out on social media, and crowds descended on the cemetery in Haifa for the burial of 95-year-old Esther Greizer.
He was known to make it a point, in accented English, to say he “loved America” for the refuge and opportunity it gave him.
