Holocaust
The comparison was “unconscionable and uncalled for,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Born in Leipzig in 1926, Hilsenrath moved to Romania in 1938 to flee the Nazis, but lived there in a ghetto. His inaugural novel was published in 1954 and describes the horrors of surviving that ghetto.
Loinger was awarded the Resistance Medal, the Military Cross and the Legion d’Honneur, among other awards, for his heroism.
In remembering 94-year-old Simcha Rotem, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said, “Thank you for everything, Kazik. We promise to try every day to be deserving of the description ‘Human.’ ”
It was created by the famed sculptor Nandor Glid and finished in 1997 after his death by his son, Daniel. It was the elder Gild’s last piece.
The country will pay $2,800 each to survivors from among the 10,000 who fled the “Kindertransport,” which sent children from Germany to Great Britain as part of the latter agreeing to admit an unspecified number of Jewish children as refugees, beginning in 1938.
Speaking on Al-Quds TV (Lebanon) on Nov. 11, Jordanian political commentator Sufyan Tal said that Rupert Murdoch and Alex Springer are prominent Zionists who are recruited to make the world believe Jewish-Zionist lies.
At the earlier Hanukkah reception, U.S. President Donald Trump recognized eight Holocaust survivors, remarking they had experienced “evil beyond description.”
Vandals damage a Holocaust memorial in the Belgian city of Ghent on the eve of a Kristallnacht commemoration.
A new book by Wiesel’s longtime assistant (and good friend) Ariel Burger was born of a 25-year bond between student and teacher.
“Anti-Semitism is back, and it needs to be fought as the crime it is,” said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.
Baraboo High School Superintendent Lori Mueller says she became aware of the photo on Monday after it was posted on social media.
