Europe
Seven decades later, nearly all of them—the skeletal prisoners on one side of the barbed wire and their liberators on the other—are gone. The world remembers the date thanks to the United Nations, which designated it as International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2005.
The country also appointed Milena Santerini as the country’s national coordinator of the fight against anti-Semitism.
Matteo Salvini, head of Italy’s right-wing Lega Party, sits down for an interview on anti-Semitism, immigration and the relationship of Israel and the European Union.
Efraim Zuroff, Eastern Europe director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, slammed the proposed legislation as the “final stage of a long attempt to whitewash massive complicity by Lithuanians” in the Holocaust.
“I’m not scared; we aren’t scared,” says Israeli restaurant owner Sami Bar-On after his establishment is targeted for the fourth time.
The pledges include a promise to resolve outstanding cases of alleged anti-Semitism and to make sure the party’s disciplinary process is independent to avoid “the risk of partisanship and factionalism.”
“I couldn’t be any prouder,” said the Hungarian-born athlete following her bronze medal win in a video posted on Facebook. “It’s an amazing feeling, and I can’t describe it. It’s really fantastic.”
The museum also said that 900,000 users follow its account on Twitter, and more than 300,000 use the museum’s profile on Facebook with 80,000 on Instagram.
“I will be clear: We have decided that I as the Polish president will not participate in the event,” said Andrzej Duda, adding that not allowing him to publicly honor Polish victims of the Holocaust was equivalent to a “distortion of the historical truth.”
“My sister was massacred,” said William Attal, one of Sarah Halimi’s brothers, over a microphone above the crowd in Paris.
“Turkey sees that its old adversaries, Greece and Cyprus, and its new adversaries, Israel and Egypt, are forming a maritime axis that is blocking [it],” Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told JNS.
“This is a historic day because Israel is rapidly becoming an energy superpower—a country that exports energy,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
