Jewish and Israeli Holidays
Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering said, “We stand by our Statement Against Hate and strongly condemn all acts of anti-Semitism.”
The theme of this year’s ceremony: “These Are Our Stories.”
“This is crazy what we’re doing. We’re in Auschwitz, a delegation of Arabs and Israelis. I hope that in 10 to 20 years’ time, this won’t be news,” said Rawan Osman.
According to Rutgers Hillel, “eggs were discovered to have been thrown at the house while brothers were reading the names of Holocaust victims overnight in commemoration of Yom Hashoah.”
A 50-year-old director doesn’t shy away from asking tough questions in this documentary that interviews aged individuals who as children met Adolf Hitler and how it affected their lives.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says “even the most difficult wars today are not the Holocaust and are not comparable to the Holocaust.”
Timed to coincide with Yom Hashoah—the day all of Israel stops to remember the Holocaust—“Before My Very Eyes,” the Yad Vashem Educational Center for Holocaust Remembrance, is opening at the Ariel Sharon Israel Defense Forces’ training campus in the Negev Desert.
“Our shared memory on Holocaust Remembrance Day emphasizes the strength of the German-Israeli friendship,” Bärbel Bas tells Knesset speaker.
Maritza Shelley will speak of her experiences on a death march and hiding in Nazi-occupied Budapest.
Approximately one-third of all Holocaust survivors in the United States live in poverty.
“I have no doubt that this visit will also help strengthen the connection and parliamentary work between the Knesset and the Bundestag,” said Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy.
The campaign aims to raise Holocaust awareness and to put a spotlight on rising anti-Semitism.
