Holocaust
“Ultimately, the IRGC is more dangerous than any of the groups listed, and constitutes a real and present danger to Iranian dissidents, the Jewish community and Canadians in general,” said B’nai Brith Canada.
The move comes a few months after a report by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany found that the state ranked last in Holocaust knowledge.
“Hate speech cannot be accepted, not against Jews, not against gypsies, gays or the disabled,” says Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, after signing a landmark agreement to compensate his country’s Holocaust survivors.
“We are planting the trees in order to commemorate the Jews of Kyiv massacred at Babi Yar. These saplings will grow tall to memorialize the lives lost, yet we won’t be able to enjoy their fruits when they ripen,” said Chabad Rabbi Jonathan Benyamin Markovitch.
It will first be available in English-speaking countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States.
Those in the Israel Defense Forces who educate soldiers and officers about one of the darkest times experienced by the Jewish people talk about their work, which continues in full force during the coronavirus pandemic.
Participants from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Saudi Arabia joined viewers from North America, Europe and Israel in more personal kind of diplomacy.
“The hardest thing is to hear that one of the kids whose tag you’re holding in your hand arrived ... on a train full of children ... sent to die alone,” says Yoram Haimi of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Having remained one of the only European countries that has not offered restitution to its survivors, Luxembourg pledges to pay reparations and return Jewish property to its rightful owners.
In a tribute initiative, Germany shared with Israel a photographic exhibition from the Willy-Brandt-Haus of portraits of Holocaust survivors around the world.
Chiune Sugihara defied his own government’s orders by issuing handwritten transit visas in 1940 to more than 6,000 Lithuanian Jews, enabling them to escape Nazi-occupied Europe.
Ten sets of tefillin were found in the bunker, dug ahead of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, pointing to prayer quorums “underground and under the Nazis’ noses,” says Holocaust institute director.
