Holocaust
“This is not a protest. It is hatred,” said Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
“Whether it is denying the Holocaust, any genocide, or any atrocity, any attempt to rewrite the historical record is an insult to the victims at Jasenovac and an insult to any victim of the atrocities,” the U.S. special envoy said.
“Facing certain death, Jews chose to fight—not for victory, but for dignity, identity, and the right to resist.”
“This tool makes it easier to confront and understand family histories connected to the Nazi era,” Die Zeit stated in its introduction of the database.
From Moroccan heritage preservation and Holocaust survivor testimony to contemporary concerns over antisemitism in North America, participants at the March of the Living reflect on legacy, loss and the fight against hatred.
The daughter of a Dutch rescuer and the infant he saved meet at the March of the Living in Poland.
“It’s a lot less threatening when you are sitting around drinking coffee and having a one-on-one conversation,” Alyssa Sadoff, of Yad Vashem USA Foundation, told JNS.
The P.A. chief awarded a medal to late prisoners’ affairs head Qadri Abu Bakr.
“We are becoming that legacy, we’re becoming that memory and it’s becoming our responsibility, our obligation to carry that memory on,” a Conservative rabbi from Charleston told JNS.
“We must all commit to crushing antisemitism, burying it in the ground and making sure that it never rises again,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said.
Moshe Shapira spoke about his son’s heroism at a roadside shelter on Oct. 7 and his grandfather’s rescuing Jews in Austria under the Nazi regime.
The bronze sculpture honors Jewish women and children murdered by Nazi forces in Liepāja, Latvia, in 1941, and will serve as both a site of remembrance and an educational tool.
