Holocaust
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer took to social media to express his disgust, saying “anti-Semitism and hatred are not welcome in this community. Despite displays of hate in Central Florida, our collective commitment to building an inclusive, compassionate community for all is stronger than ever.”
Dani Dayan welcomed the talk-show host’s “important” apology, though said her remarks were evidence of a “fundamental misunderstanding” regarding the nature of anti-Semitism.
It opened at Shaar HaShamayim Synagogue on the island of Sulawesi and is called “The Holocaust: How Was It Humanly Possible?”
The Pulitzer Prize-winning book tells the story of Art Spiegelman’s parents, who lived in Poland in the 1940s, and their time in Auschwitz.
“The Nazis thought they were the future, and that Jews would be something you only find in a museum. Instead, the Jewish state is the future, and Mauthausen is a museum,” said Foreign Minister Yair Lapid.
Almost 3,600 North American students from grades six through 12 participated in the study by the Ontario-based Liberation75.
The metal pendants, each different from the others, are from Lviv in Ukraine, Poland and the Czech Republic, according to researchers.
The average age of Israel’s 165,800 remaining survivors is now 85, according to the Holocaust Survivors’ Rights Authority • “Our watch is the last watch,” says Israeli Social Equality Minister Meirav Cohen.
As the number of survivors dwindles, many members of the community have been forced to live out their lives in poverty, often alone.
In a series of two-minute videos, the campaign spotlights those recognized as Righteous Among the Nations and the dangers they faced to save Jews in German-occupied Europe.
The “Forever in Their Name” campaign is slated to launch on Jan. 26, the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center points to social media as a distributor of anti-Jewish propaganda, saying “racists have succeeded in attaching their goals and infiltrating their anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi, Holocaust-denigrating imagery onto a legitimate, ongoing debate, which is very emotional. It’s a massive victory for them.”
