Holocaust
“I must have spoken to around half a million people,” said Marko Feingold, noting that in Auschwitz, he pledged to tell what transpired.
“Germany has to live up to its historic responsibility towards those who, as descendants of Jews persecuted by the Nazi regime, have suffered from disadvantages pertaining to Nationality Law,” said German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer.
The change will apply not only to the children and grandchildren of survivors, but potentially to great-grandchildren as well.
The Los Angeles chapter of the Anti-Defamation League called the derogatory language “unacceptable.”
“It’s like putting a monument to killers on the top of the graves of their victims,” said director general of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee Eduard Dolinsky.
“I understood its depth and maturity, and fine writing and poetry, and with the rise of all the ‘isms’—anti-Semitism, populism and nationalism—both me and my mom saw the necessity in bringing this to life,” said Alexandra Bellak.
The Jewish Community of Lithuania called for the removal of a new plaque that has replaced the one they and the Simon Wiesenthal Center have lobbied for years to have removed.
Booking.com deleted the post, while TripAdvisor declined to delete the one on its site, though “Thomas K” reportedly took it down after the hotel owner’s family harassed him by telephone to delete it.
These Righteous Gentiles, who range in age from the early 80s to 100, are dwindling in attendance at the annual event in their honor.
Ash Sarkar expressed “solidarity” with those who spray-painted “free Gaza and Palestine, liberate all ghettos” on one of the last remaining parts of the Warsaw Ghetto wall.
Speaking with “Israel Hayom” on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, Andrzej Duda calls it “the most tragic day in the history of the Polish nation.” Regarding reparations, he says the issue “concerns all those who lost property, irrespective of their nationality.”
The image, known as “The last Jew in Vinnitsa,” shows a Jewish man in the Ukrainian town about to be shot dead by the Einsatzgruppen.
