Germany
Nine other countries—the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Austria, Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Israel—announced that they will not be attending the conference.
IsraAID assistance on way to Germany after country recovers from deluge
The nongovernmental humanitarian agency is sending staff members to affected areas to provide much-needed emergency relief.
Esther Bejarano said that music helped keep her alive during her time at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The U.S. State Department cited the need for collaboration 76 years after the Holocaust when the numbers of survivors are dwindling.
Deputy parliamentary spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU Party calls the move “a clear signal to our Jewish citizens.”
The Conference of European Rabbis president hails the move for sending “a clear message of tolerance and pluralism.”
ICEJ-Germany national director Gottfried Bühler called upon the federal government to take firm action against the “aggressive climate change of anti-Semitism” being witnessed in Germany.
Still, some attendees wonder: Why now? What’s the source? And will it be followed by real action?
“I described during our meeting that while we’re fighting on various fronts, the true backer of much of this aggression is Iran,” stated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Three men in their early 20s admitted to throwing rocks at a synagogue in Bonn and burning an Israeli flag.
A German state report says “proliferation-relevant states are making efforts to expand on their conventional arsenal of weapons through the production or constant modernization of weapons of mass destruction.”
A group of young adults from Germany, including direct descendants of Nazi Wehrmacht soldiers and/or members of the SS, met with Holocaust survivors to gain much-needed closure for the sins of their grandparents and great-grandparents.
