Holocaust
A Holocaust museum in St. Louis referred to the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks as a “pogrom,” much like Kristallnacht was.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog expressed his thanks for the support and friendship of the German people in fighting modern-day antisemitism
Shots fired at Montreal Jewish schools. A rabbi kicked in Paris. Fighting outside a Holocaust film screening in Los Angeles.
The project, announced on the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “Night of broken glass,” is slated to debut in 2024.
Olaf Scholz spoke at a memorial ceremony at a synagogue in Berlin that was firebombed last month.
“This is a second Holocaust for me,” Ruth Haran, whose family was devasted by the Oct. 7 attacks, told JNS.
“I encourage you to speak out for the children, women and men kidnapped and held hostage, and in support of Israel and Israel’s right to defend herself,” wrote David Schaecter, 94.
“Our government is decisively combatting the rise of antisemitism and hate in all its forms,” said Stephen Lecce, Ontario’s education minister.
Moshe Ridler, “the grandfather of the kibbutz,” and his caretaker were murdered in their home on a kibbutz in southern Israel.
“Holocaust survivors and many others have been re-traumatized by the attacks.”
“We must be careful until sufficient research is performed on the two ideologies,” the institution’s chairman, Dani Dayan, told JNS.
The museum director presented the pope with a letter penned by Holocaust survivors about the Hamas massacre in Israel.