Holocaust
Heart conditions, bone and feet issues, and dental problems are common for the 80,000 or so elderly survivors who live in the United States, as are depression, anxiety and sleep disorders.
“Millions of Holocaust survivors and their descendants, as well refugees from Soviet oppression living in Israel, will find such comparisons unfathomable,” said Democratic Majority for Israel president and CEO Mark Mellman. “I find them odious. In an effort led by parties of the left, the German Parliament officially labeled BDS as ‘anti-Semitism’—and they were right.”
“Today more than ever, we need the learning opportunities that a bill like this will bring to our schools,” said Gov. Kate Brown.
It comes amid backlash against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) saying that the United States is “running concentration camps on our southern border” in reference to migrant detention centers there.
“We are at a dangerous moment in time. Anti-Semitism is on the rise around the world and here at home, and the memory of the Holocaust is fading for far too many Americans,” said Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.). “We can combat this by making sure we teach our students, tomorrow’s leaders, about the horrors of the Holocaust.”
Spanish River Community High School principal William Latson told a mother of a student in April 2018 who sought to ensure that Holocaust education was “a priority” that “not everyone believes the Holocaust happened.”
“We must never allow the memory of those lost in the Holocaust to be cheapened as a cliché to advance some left-wing political narrative,” said U.S. Vice President Mike Pence.
Matthew Levin, CEO of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County, told NBC affiliate WPTV that “the Holocaust isn’t a debatable point; it’s not philosophical.”
In her 2012 book, “Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz,” she wrote: “Forgiveness is not so much for the perpetrator, but for the victim.”
The Choral Synagogue was built in the mid-19th century for one of the biggest and most thriving Jewish communities of Galicia.
A conference on anti-Semitism in Berlin revealed varying ideological roots of contemporary anti-Semitism according to different parts of the world.
“This book has set a path toward a much higher understanding of the self and of our magnificent destiny as living beings part of this Race on our planet,” stated the blurb on the Barnes & Noble website.
