Holocaust
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.
U.N. Secretary General António Guterres also condemned the rise of Jew-hatred in the world, and the significance of combating it.
“It is important for ambassadors from around the world to understand both the history of and contemporary life in Israel in order to be best informed on issues which come to their attention at the United Nations,” said American Zionist Movement president Richard Heideman.
“Statistics, Media and Organizations of Jewry in the United States and Canada” is a 137-page document written in German and constructed by Heinz Kloss, a prominent German linguist who was in touch with American Nazi sympathizers.
A new poll commissioned by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust found that one in 20 British adults do not believe that the Holocaust occurred; another 12 percent think the magnitude of genocide was exaggerated.
More than half of all people questioned and 62 percent of millennial demographic did not know that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust • 52 percent of millennial respondents could not name a single Nazi concentration camp or Jewish ghetto from World War II.
