Holocaust
“We will never forget the 6 million Jews murdered in cold blood,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
The public has been given online access to 380,000 pages related to the 1961 trial of the Nazi war criminal.
“Since the Oct. 7 massacre, antisemitism has raised its ugly face, but we will fight it,” said Israeli Ambassador to Portugal Oren Rozenblat.
Anti-Israel co-organizers and their rhetoric at last year’s event make attendance at the ceremony “unacceptable,” community leaders said.
A total of 123,715 Holocaust survivors live in Israel.
The defendant, who has ties to a neo-Nazi group, has been indicted on charges of civil rights intimidation and violation and is facing two additional charges related to his actions.
The billionaire also praised the AfD party in an address he delivered remotely at one of its rallies.
“The Holocaust was a singularly evil event, and it is inappropriate and offensive to make light of it,” said Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL.
Nearly half of American respondents—48%—could not name a single concentration camp or ghetto established during World War II.
“He is too close to Trump, and everyone who is close to him can be a target,” the motivational speaker Sami Steigmann told JNS.
“What’s amazing is how, despite these horrendous losses, they just got up and started all over again; there’s so much we can learn from that,” says Yael Richler-Friedman, who directs education for Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
“We will not let lies and hatred prevail,” said Oded Forer, the lawmaker who proposed the bill.
