Holocaust
Jews who tried to hide in urban areas during the Nazi occupation of Poland were much less likely to survive • “Poles who chose to save Jews were essentially violating the unwritten norms of their community.”
French President Emmanuel Macron, who spoke at a dinner attended by leaders of the Jewish community in Paris on Wednesday, criticized a “resurgence of anti-Semitism unseen since World War II.”
For the first time, the European Union has called on Bosnia and Herzegovina to address restitution of property that was seized during the Holocaust, a condition to being considered for E.U. membership.
“It just doesn’t stop; it’s shock after shock,” said Maurice Dahan, the regional head of the Israelite Central Consistory of France, after the cemetery attack. “I don’t know how long we are going to carry on.”
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said that the leaders of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary would instead hold separate meeting with Israeli leaders.
The Jewish National Fund was left scrambling to apologize to the son of a former Japanese diplomat who saved the lives of approximately 6,000 Jews during the Holocaust, after a memorial grove of trees planted in his honor was flattened to make way for apartment buildings.
“Frankl instead tries to convince Betty that her imagination is simply running wild; that with the defeat of Nazism, good has now defeated evil. He refuses to confront reality: Anti-Semitism is forever present in Vienna, and elsewhere. It’s an incurable disease.”
Leaders of the World Jewish Restitution Organization and of the Jewish Community of Luxembourg met with Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel to discuss efforts to address remaining Holocaust-era property compensation issues.
Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff, Minister of Culture for the German province of Thuringia, tweeted, on behalf of himself and Mühlhausen Mayor Johannes Brüns that alternative plans for the museum will be made as “the site in question—an outer camp of Buchenwald—is unsuitable.”
Article on Egyptian website: “There is no evidence the Holocaust happened.”
Rikola-Gunnar Luettgenau of the Buchenwald memorial foundation said this plan shows a “lack of sensitivity” and a “lack of historical awareness.”
Between August 1942 and July 1944, some 25,628 Jews and Gypsies from Belgium were deported from the Dossin barracks in Mechelen to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps.
