Holocaust
“The Devil Next Door” tells the story of retired U.S. autoworker John Demjanjuk, who was convicted in 2011 by a German court for being a Nazi death-camp guard during the Holocaust.
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous posthumously recognized U.S. Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds in 2016 with its Yehi Or Award.
These tragedies teach “how hate can proliferate and erode societies” and serve as a “reminder that the United States must advance global efforts to ensure that barbarism and mass murder never occur again.”
“In this place, thousands of Jews prayed. ... These walls speak of emotions, telling the story of a community that turned to ashes, and stood up again and was revived,” said Rabbi Yitshak Ehrenberg of the Central Orthodox Synagogue of Berlin.
The “Sciesopoli Ebraica–Children’s home of Selvino” museum tells the remarkable story of some 800 Jewish orphans who were sheltered after the Holocaust in the Alpine town of Selvino before ultimately immigrating to Mandatory Palestine.
“It’s horrible and mortifying that something like that was allowed to happen, and a child wasn’t asked to be removed from the parade,” said Jewish Federation’s executive director Alex Shapiro.
“We are currently planning how and when to execute you. At the next rally? Or will we get you outside your home?” read an email sent to Green Party politician Cem Ozdemir.
This was the first time that the U.S.-based Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, which provides monthly financial assistance to more than 265 aged and needy Righteous Among the Nations living in 18 countries, has reunited Holocaust survivors and their rescuers in Israel.
“It is morally unacceptable and highly distasteful that anyone should trade in personal items, artifacts or documents of Holocaust victims or from the Holocaust era,” according to Yad Vashem.
The board voted 5-2 with “just cause” to terminate the employment of Spanish River Community High School principal William Latson.
This “outrageous and deeply offensive” incident is “another example of SJP’s anti-Semitic practice of marginalizing Jews and reducing their identity to their connection to Israel” on college campuses, says ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.
“Do you support or do you condemn the establishment of the Zionist Israeli state?” posed Benedictine University senior Ayah Ali.
