Holocaust
Directed by Israeli Ari Folman of “Waltz With Bashir” fame, it aims to draw a link between the Holocaust, discrimination and anti-Semitism.
Since opening in April, the museum has welcomed 22,000 visitors, 70 percent of them young, and the guestbooks testify to the great popular support for Israel in Portugal, according to the museum.
About one-third of survivors in the United States live in poverty, at risk for depression, social isolation and inadequate medical care.
Esther Bejarano said that music helped keep her alive during her time at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The Orăștie synagogue, which is more than a century old, was restored in the early 2000s and has housed several cultural events in recent years.
Eva Schloss received papers that granted her Austrian citizenship on June 18 at a ceremony at the Austrian Embassy in London.
The Polish ambassador was summoned by the Foreign Ministry over the draft legislation • Yair Lapid: “We will not allow any parliament to pass laws the purpose of which is to deny the Holocaust.”
“I think that it’s sad that in 2021, Poland, instead of moving forward to try to address its history, is moving backwards to try to extinguish what limited rights people have,” said Gideon Taylor, chair of operations for the World Jewish Restitution Organization.
The U.S. State Department cited the need for collaboration 76 years after the Holocaust when the numbers of survivors are dwindling.
“Anti-Semitism is true hate,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). “And I saw that today at the Holocaust museum.”
American Jewish Committee: There is something “profoundly wrong” with a state being prepared to execute a prisoner using “a method of execution that inevitably, inextricably and forever linked to the worst outrages of human history.”
Toni Rinde, a Holocaust survivor, said, “We in our museum try to explain hate. We teach how to be an upstander. When you see wrong being done, we teach: Fix that wrong.”
