Holocaust
Legislation introduced in November by Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė will provide €37 million ($11.36 million) as symbolic compensation for private property expropriated during the Holocaust, and will address heirless Jewish property.
The spending package for the fiscal year 2023 includes the highest congressional honor bestowed to Ben Ferencz for his advocacy of human rights and justice.
Irmgard Furchner, who worked as a typist at the Stutthof camp in Danzig in 1943-1945, received a two-year suspended jail term.
“This light is a strong societal symbol against hatred,” said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Tibor Baranski, who settled in upstate New York, worked with the Vatican to rescue thousands in Nazi-occupied Hungary.
“The underlying theme this year is that with the rising tide of antisemitism, it is impossible to turn on the TV and not hear voices of Holocaust denial. The voices of survivors should be louder than that of deniers,” said Claims Conference leader Greg Schneider.
Aliza Goldman and her husband founded the first translation agency in Israel.
“The Holocaust is not what happened, let’s look at the facts of that and Hitler has a lot of redeeming qualities,” Ye said.
“My father dreamed of Jerusalem as a child,” said Elisha Wiesel, “but I don’t think he ever imagined that he would walk those streets one day in a reborn State of Israel.”
The Jewish Community Centers of Chicago is organizing concerts and educational programs to accompany the instruments played by Jews during the Shoah.
The Berlin public prosecutor’s office said it would not investigate Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas for claiming Israel had committed “50 Holocausts.”
The actor played Corporal LeBeau on the WWII-era sitcom.
