Holocaust
In 2015, Prince Albert II apologized for Monaco’s deportation of Jews during the Holocaust. A memorial now stands in the Monaco Cemetery.
The prosecutor’s office said a speech that former priest Jacek Miedlar gave at a nationalist march in Wrocław incited hatred.
Reada Cronin, who will not face disciplinary action from her party, said: “I will assist and work with everybody, without qualification. I abhor racism and bigotry of any shade.”
A bungled telegram marking the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, coming on the heels of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, puts some Jewish groups on edge.
The Coalition for Jewish Concerns is asking that the Birkenau church, which is topped by a large cross, be moved back into the nearby village from the building it occupies, which served as the SS commandant’s headquarters.
“I saw him once or twice coming home. His car would draw up. Two SS men would jump out and stand on either side, and he would rush up to the house, terrified someone would kill him,” said Alice Frank Stock.
Reasons in the incorrect marking of headstones include clerical errors in “the fog of war,” a lack of technology, the default of being buried under a cross and hesitancy on the soldiers’ part to declare themselves as Jewish out of fear of mistreatment.
“Extremists hope the virus kills Jews, but they are also using its emergence to advance anti-Semitic theories that Jews are responsible for creating the virus, spreading it to increase their control over a decimated population, or they are profiting off it,” said the ADL.
For students who find it difficult to connect to the Holocaust and its lessons, said Rabbi Yisroel Bernath, who co-directs Chabad at Concordia University in Montreal, “it is important, now more than ever, to have the right narrative.”
Among the website’s 20 different definitions of the Nazi concentration camp are “a summer camp for Jews, “a disneyland for its time” and “the happy resort for Jews during WW2.”
“There was no intention whatsoever to compare the dark days of the Holocaust with the current situation and the efforts taken by the Israeli government to protect its citizens,” said the embassy.
“States and local school boards, NOT Washington, should ensure our children are getting the best education, including on the subject of the Holocaust and human atrocities of all kinds, in all places and against all peoples,” said Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas).
