Holocaust
“Some people say that anti-Semitism is on the rise, but perhaps it never really went away. In truth, it’s just emerging back into the light,” said Alberto Levy, a Duke University graduate from Panama.
“There is no administration, no president, no secretary of state that have committed themselves to this extent to fight anti-Semitism, to protect the Jewish people and to support the State of Israel,” said Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Elan Carr.
“From this place, I call on world leaders to fight rampant anti-Semitism erupting around the world, especially the shocking and dramatic rise of hate crimes in Europe, Latin America [and] the United States,” said Isaac Herzog, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel.
The delegation, which includes envoys from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and Eastern Europe, did the nearly two-mile walk from the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz to Birkenau on as a tribute to all victims of the Holocaust and a call for an end to anti-Semitism.
Speaking at Yad Vashem, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says the Jewish people “will not present its neck for the slaughter in the face of threats of destruction.”
P.A. TV presented pictures of Jewish victims in a Nazi concentration camp as being of Arabs killed by Jews in Deir Yassin in 1948.
“We know the tragic history of Israel, we thought that is not God wants. We came here to bless the Jewish people to show our true love for Israel,” said a member of the Korean delegation.
In response to the torrent of anti-Semitic events and growing global trend of hate crimes against Jews, the March of the Living will host the first-ever “Emerging Leadership Conference” in Krakow, Poland for hundreds of youth from around the world who have been impacted by anti-Semitism.
According to a story posted on the organization‘s official Facebook page, during World War II Jews agreed to bury Russian civilians alive to save their own skins.
“Last Letters From the Holocaust: 1944,” an online exhibit from Yad Vashem, has arrived on its website just in time for Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day), which this year corresponds to May 2.
He was known for reciting the Shema prayer in public at ceremonies honoring Holocaust victims—a practice he vowed to take upon himself after screaming it while SS guards rounded him and others up. He vowed to recite the prayer with living Jews if God would spare his life.
“No tolerance for any form of violence, physical or verbal. Football must be an occasion of celebration and communion, not for fighting or confrontation,” Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini tweeted.
