Holocaust
Elderly citizens who would otherwise be alone will be treated to a multi-day stay in Israel, where they will be housed, fed and treated to social activities tied to the holiday celebrations.
“A 14-year-long campaign has finally been crowned with success,” said Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. “Trawniki guards do not deserve the privilege of living in the United States.”
In Mainz, a German city where a Jewish schoolgirl was recently murdered, attempts are underway to recognize its former Jewish glory.
The actions by the Lawfare Project came following controversial comments by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, saying he does not believe that Holocaust-denial content should be removed.
Critics warn that a law barring public access to archive materials on individuals aged 100 and over will silence research into Croatian government’s wartime collaboration with Nazis.
The country, which perpetrated mass murder against Jews and other minorities between 1933 and 1945, also agreed to increase pensions to 55,000 Holocaust survivors in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as to expand eligibility for child survivors.
His films based on themes of war, namely the lengthy “Shoah,” brought the Holocaust and its aftermath on screen to the world in all its stark, chilling detail.
Historian Yehuda Bauer, 92, says the joint Israeli-Polish statement on Poland’s controversial Holocaust law attacks the memory of the Holocaust and silences attempts to tell the stories of what befell Polish Jews at the hands of their countrymen.
The United Kingdom’s Prince William laid a wreath at the Yad Vashem Hall of Remembrance on Tuesday, while signing the guestbook and noting his great-grandmother’s role in sheltering a Jewish family during the Holocaust, in his first day of his official tour of the State of Israel.
The Israel Defense Forces flew a platoon of 40 soldiers and officers to Europe, where together with American troops they parachuted down to the ground from aircraft, and practiced seizing airfields and other targets.
“We have to learn lessons from the past, but one of the fundamental lessons is that not everything is an Auschwitz,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
The first seminar, which concluded on June 7 in Jackson, Miss., compared the exclusionary policies of Nazi Germany with the Jim Crow laws operating during the same time period in the United States.
