Holocaust
Online portal Bidspirit has banned such sales and threatened to remove violators from its site, enraging collectors.
The building on Saint-Laurent Boulevard in Le Plateau-Mont-Royal will feature interactive holograms of Holocaust survivors sharing their stories and house a new auditorium.
Workers took down “Flowers,” painted by German artist Lovis Corinth in 1913, and packed it for the family of Gustav and Emma Mayer.
It approves spending over the course of 10 years to help Jewish community institutions and cultural projects, and to provide social and material assistance to Holocaust survivors.
Miep Gies also found Anne’s diary after the family was arrested by the Nazis and guarded it until Otto Frank—Anne’s father and the only family member to survive the war—shared it with the world.
Yad Vashem chairman denounces planned sale of some 20 Nazi items, including daggers, flags and an SS helmet • Auction house head dismisses criticism of “bleeding hearts and the self-righteous.”
The legislation would give exceptions to symbols used for educational, historical and/or other legitimate purposes.
The European Jewish Congress called on HarperCollins to distance itself from the book’s “potentially incendiary claim ... at a time when anti-Semitism and the distortion of the Holocaust are on the rise.”
The funding is part of efforts to support Holocaust awareness throughout the country, said acting education minister Stuart Robert.
“It’s not for third-graders. This is for eighth-grade minds who’ve already had Holocaust education beginning in fifth grade—in the state of Tennessee, that’s when we begin,” said Michael Dzik of the Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga.
The two-week suspension will give the talk-show host “time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments,” says the TV station’s president Kim Godwin.
Ellen Germain sits one-on-one to talk about the growing global presence of International Holocaust Remembrance Day and her office’s work when “Never Again” stops trending.
