Holocaust
The legislation would require public school districts and charter schools to submit annual reports detailing their Holocaust Remembrance Week activities, lessons and instructional materials.
“It’s overwhelming to be here to really see what happened to humanity,” Montalvo Sosa, Ecuadorian ambassador to the United Nations, said of visiting the concentration camp for the first time.
A Greek cabinet minister referenced the Oct. 7 massacre at an event organized by the European Jewish Association.
Jaroslawa Lewicka immigrated to Israel in 1995 and made her home in Haifa, six years after receiving the top honor for Gentiles who saved Jews during the Holocaust.
“We see it and hear it on our streets, in our cities, in the cities of our European neighbors and throughout the world, in parliaments, in associations and in schools,” Friedrich Merz said.
Receiving an award, Iran’s exiled crown prince called for international action against Tehran.
Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, told JNS at the event that only leaders who have put forward plans to fight modern Jew-hatred should say “never again,” or else it’s a “shallow cliché.”
The 1902 landscape by Camille Pissarro was part of the collection of French banker Salomon Flavian seized in 1941.
Holocaust survivor George Shefi, 94, addressed international police representatives at a gathering focused on protecting Jewish communities.
The move comes amid a sharp increase in Holocaust denial and distortion around the globe following the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel.
