Holocaust
Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi: “Our signatures side by side in the Book of Remembrance is like a shared cry and oath: to remember and not to forget, and to promise never again.”
Were William Latson to be employed again, it has been requested that he be a “principal on assignment.”
Real estate executive Loren Flaum and South Carolina Ports Authority chairman Bill Stern were named to the council, the governing body of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Pittsburgh resident Judah Samet lived through the Holocaust and the assault on his synagogue, the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.
“The president is not Hitler. Joe Biden is not Castro,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, adding that the comparison “degrades the memory of the Shoah.”
Since the establishment of independent Ukraine, Jews have been acknowledged; however, attempts to create an official memorial that honors all victims and provides a framework to impart the message of the Holocaust—of “Never Again”—have repeatedly stalled.
“We need to understand in terms of restitution and also in terms of the Claims Conference that, increasingly, the direct victims of the Nazis are getting older, and therefore their needs are getting much greater in terms of physical and mental care,” says Lord Eric Pickles.
Nationally, 63 percent of respondents didn’t know that 6 million Jews were killed during the years of World War II and the Holocaust; 36 percent believed that 2 million Jews or fewer were killed.
It is the only European Union member-state that has not adopted a national comprehensive private-property restitution law.
Efforts include fostering a connection with Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education to strengthen and transform Holocaust education in Catholic schools and professional development programming.
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“These policies are all great on paper, but we need to see the tech companies proactively enforcing [them] to protect their users. Social-media companies have to do more than just pay lip service to fighting extremism on their platforms,” said Josh Lipowsky of the Counter Extremism Project.
