Holocaust
“Neo-Nazi groups are trying to re-emerge, and their popularity has increased with the economic crisis. We see them as criminals who deny the Holocaust and promote neo-Nazi ideas; they have no place at all in Greek society,” said Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias.
Materials collected by Emmanuel Diamant and Joseph Schneider arrived at the National Library of Israel’s Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog is to take part in an official ceremony inaugurating Kyiv’s Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Wanda Lattes and Albert (Aaron) Nirenstein remained in the city after the war and had three daughters, two of whom live in Israel.
As Karolina Jurzyk told CNN: “My grandfather apparently became very emotional. Somewhere deep inside, he knew they were safe.”
The government had been attempting to expel Helmut Oberlander for more than two decades, claiming that he had hidden his role as a Nazi death-squad interpreter during his immigration to Canada in 1954.
Saul Friedlander, 88, at one point considered becoming a priest, though said that after he was told in 1946 that his parents were killed at Auschwitz, “my Jewish identity was restored.”
The monument was commissioned by the Dutch Auschwitz Committee but funded in part by the public, with 84,000 people paying $58 each to dedicate one of the bricks.
In addition to the new memorial, the country has the only Holocaust museum in Central America.
The human bones were found in a basement, thought to have resulted from a Jew hiding from German forces that destroyed the area during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.
“Michael [Sidko]’s story is intertwined with the story of the State of Israel, which arose from the ashes of the Holocaust, in order to stop the shedding of Jewish blood and to build a home for the Jewish people in the land of their ancestors,” said Speaker of the Knesset Mickey Levy.
Passed by the Nazi puppet state, they facilitated the transfer of Jewish assets to non-Jewish owners and prevented Jews from education.
