Holocaust
“If we place the memory of the Holocaust only in the history books, it means that we have failed to understand the universal truth about humanity it reveals,” said historian Piotr Cywiński.
“We cannot change what happened, but it must never be allowed to happen again,” said Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer.
A news release cited numerous examples of the Russian government and propaganda apparatus justifying its aggression towards Ukraine by invoking World War II imagery.
“From Where They Stood” is a vitally important documentary that chronicles those brave enough to take a picture in concentration camps during World War II and the Holocaust.
The Blue Card is set to host its annual summer retreat, giving an all-expenses-paid week-long vacation to up to 40 Holocaust survivors, many Isolated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
One piece restituted was Johann Jakob Schillinger’s “Devil’s Bridge” from Berlin’s Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings).
The program is a high-level academic seminar in which participants are exposed to noted scholars around the country.
Bilateral ties were severely damaged last year after Warsaw passed law effectively preventing restitution to the heirs of property seized by the Nazis.
According to Gustavo Zentner, president of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg, “you would be hard-pressed to find a Jewish person in Winnipeg who doesn’t have a friend or relative buried there.”
There is little chance he will serve time because of his age.
“What began as one man’s opinion,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, “would become state policy of Nazi Germany 22 years later, which led to the systematic murder of one-third of world Jewry.”
B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission chairman hails legislation banning the public display of the symbol as a “thunderous blow” to neo-Nazis.
