Holocaust
The unveiling ceremony of a statue in honor of Trevor Chadwick was attended by hundreds of guests, including Chadwick’s grandchildren and Winton’s son, Nick Winton.
Isaac Herzog recites the Kaddish prayer in memory of victims of the Holocaust, as his father did as Israel’s president decades ago.
A white-supremacist Holocaust-denier was reportedly arrested in Poland for sharing hate speech at the entrance of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
“The possession of weapons of mass destruction by a U.N. member state that calls on a daily basis for the annihilation of another U.N. member state is simply inconceivable,” says the Israeli president.
“Under Horthy’s reign Hungary joined World War II siding with Hitler, some 550,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered and 100,00 Hungarian soldiers died at the Don River. Not a man to honor,” said the American Jewish Committee of Central Europe.
The owner of the synagogue building, a local real estate developer, “doesn’t want us there,” said community member David Gurfinkel.
British Gen. Orde Wingate “bravely defended Jews in Palestine against murderous Arab gangs in the 1930s. He was a committed Zionist, revered as a hero and friend in Israel,” said Col. (ret.) Richard Kemp.
It will open as part of a community-wide project in Iowa and Illinois that aims to teach the public about the Holocaust and the Nazi atrocities that took place during World War II.
The collection includes a miniature Hebrew bible printed in Warsaw in the late 19th century that was found by a Soviet Jewish officer during the liberation of a concentration camp in Poland in 1945.
B’nai Brith International says such trivialization “deeply disrespects the victims of the greatest tragedy in the history of mankind.”
“[He] downplayed the most terrible time in the history of our country, and in the history of my family and religious community,” said Mike Delberg, who filed a complaint against the Palestinian Authority leader.
The Ypres city council revoked the permit for the Frontnacht music festival, which was to be held the weekend of Aug. 27-28.
