Holocaust
“We can’t cede the progressive territory. Those of us who believe in these very important causes need to continue standing up for them and do so as Zionists. We don’t need to hit them over the head with it, but people need to understand that we’re not going to be excluded from any part of the political sphere where we feel we want to operate,” says Elisha Wiesel.
Aristides de Sousa Mendes disobeyed orders when he was a consul in Bordeaux, France; in 1940, he gave visas to many people who feared that the Nazis would search for them.
Anti-Semitism official Samuel Salzborn in Berlin filed a criminal complaint, saying “it is obvious that right-wing extremists deliberately chose a Jewish grave in order to disturb the eternal peace through the internment of a Holocaust denier.”
The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, which was “appalled” by the district’s actions, placed some of the blame on new legislation—new state law HB 3979.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven: “Anti-Semitism differs from other forms of racism; [it] is in itself a conspiracy theory based on notions of Jewish powers and Jewish interest, and the secret desire to rule the world. It is a specific toxic form that drives conspiracy theories.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: “It’s everyone’s challenge to take on, especially governments.”
Among claims in “The Fall of the Western Man,” Patriotic Alternative leader Mark Collett said the “established Holocaust narrative” has been made an “almost unquestionable truth.”
The 1931 anti-fascist short film “Europa” was featured as part of the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival.
“The crimes against the Jewish people that are documented here are a perpetual reminder of the responsibility we Germans bear, and a warning,” says German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“You have been serving for years as the moral compass of the entire continent of Europe,” says Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Over the years, a number of attempts were, in fact, made to commemorate the victims—most of whom were Jewish, though thousands of Roma, mental patients, POWs, Soviet prisoners and Ukrainian dissidents were killed there as well by the Nazis.
Yad Vashem recognized Angel Sanz-Briz as a Righteous Among the Nations in 1966 for saving approximately 5,200 Jews from the Nazis.
