Holocaust Remembrance Day

Holocaust Remembrance Day Spurs Push For Holocaust Education In Schools

... against Jewish community centers, according to a report from Jewish security officials with Secure Community Networks. “Holocaust education isn’t some dusty historical subject. In fact, with the resurrection of the alt-right in America, the movement to ban Muslims from entering the country, the high incidence of hate crimes since the election of Donald J. Trump and more, Holocaust education is more critical today than ever before,” Fab said in a statement. However, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, President Trump released a three paragraph statement condemning the Nazi regime. “It is with a heavy heart and somber mind that we remember and honor the victims, survivors, heroes of the Holocaust. It is impossible to fully fathom the depravity and horror inflicted on innocent people by Nazi terror,” Trump wrote. The ...

Trump To Sign Executive Actions Against Refugees, As We Observe Holocaust Remembrance Day…and The Refugees We Turned Away

... “Muslims fleeing Muslim violence” to “Jews fleeing the Holocaust.” First, I would argue that this shouldn’t be a competition. There’s plenty of oppression and racism to go around without needing to compare which one is better or worse. No one wins the Oppression Olympics. However, I’d also argue that it’s hard not to see the similarity when you consider that the Jews were also German citizens, they were also citizens of other European countries (despite the fact that their anti-Semitic fellow citizens might not have felt that way). Innocent people were being persecuted by and fleeing violence from their own governments. German citizens who were suddenly not citizens because of their lineage and their faith. And while the Muslims fleeing violence today are not specifically being targeted because they are Muslim in a situation like that of the Syrian refugees, they have no more say in the ...

On Holocaust Memorial Day, Let Us Remember Our Duty To Child Refugees

... the millions killed because they couldn’t flee. Hungry, scared, and no closer to safety: child refugees failed by Britain. Read more. It’s comforting to think that the world has learned the lessons of history. The international Refugee Convention , forged in the aftermath of the second world war, aspired to a better standard, guaranteeing the basic right of sanctuary for people fleeing persecution and conflict. But this week showed us the fragility of that consensus. As Europe reflects on the catastrophic consequences of inaction, Donald Trump is busy banning refugees fleeing Syria, Iraq, Sudan and other Muslim countries. Men, women and children seeking escape from brutal conflict and persecution, denied sanctuary because they are Muslim. The parallels are frightening. Eighteen years ago I was privileged to attend a ceremony in parliament to dedicate a small bronze plaque, donated by the committee of the Reunion of Kindertransport, in “deep gratitude” to the people ...

Only Eternal Vigilance Can Prevent A Return To The Hatred Of The 1930s

... recent special edition of BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, where among Holocaust-era artefacts was a 1938 German board game was called "Juden Raus" or "Jews Out" in which players took the role of policemen clearing Jews from a city. Some of these dangers are now lurking in our own backyard, as we face, once again, an era of nationalism, zenophobia and strident antisemitism. Not standing up to racism and antisemitism leads us down a dark path, where the rights of minorities are stripped away, and abuse becomes a way of life. These dangers are now lurking in our own backyard, as we face, once again, an era of nationalism, zenophobia and strident antisemitism. We live in a world where police claim they are powerless to prevent neo-Nazi thugs performing Nazi salutes, as they did at a recent demonstration in Bolton , where mosques and synagogues are spray-painted with hate speech, where Jewish schools are subjected to bomb threats, where our social media networks have become a tool for extremists to peddle bigotry and hate. Marine Le Pen , the leader of France’s National Front party, has ...

Israelis Are Reaching Out To Comfort The Holocaust's Loneliest Survivors

... that work will set you free, displayed on the entrance gate of Auschwitz I. Hannah Bills. A disused watchtower, surveying a stark tree-lined street through Auschwitz I concentration camp. Hannah Bills. Stolen property of the Jews: Numerous spectacles, removed from the possession of their owners when they were selected to die in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Hannah Bills. A sign bearing a skull and crossbones barks an order to a person to stop beside the once-electrified fences which reinforced the Auschwitz I camp. Hannah Bills. The peace and the evil: Flower tributes line a section of wall which was used for individual and group executions. Hannah Bills. Life behind bars: Nazi traps set to hold the Third Reich’s ‘enemies’. In Auschwitz’s years of operation, there were around three hundred successful escapes. A common punishment for an escape attempt was death by starvation. Hannah Bills. Burying the evidence: Remains of one of the several Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers. Hannah Bills. The three-way railway track at the entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. This was the first sight the new camp arrivals saw upon completion of ...

Netanyahu Notes Rising Antisemitism In Europe, Iran Threat In Holocaust Remembrance Day Remarks

... Remembrance Day Remarks" to a friend. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on Jan. 26. Photo: Twitter. __link__ – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu noted the uptick in antisemitism across Europe and the ongoing Iranian nuclear threat during an event marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem. “As we remember the victims and this crime, we must never forget the roots of our greatest disaster — the insatiable hatred for the Jewish people,” Netanyahu said at the Thursday ceremony, attended by diplomats and officials from more than 60 countries. The Israeli leader added that today, “antisemitism — which is the world’s oldest hatred — is experiencing a revival in the enlightened West.”. Related coverage. ...

This Holocaust Remembrance Day, Something To Cheer For

... to be in the permanent collection of the Toledo museum, on the same grounds. In 2008, yet another court case in another jurisdiction, this time involving the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena, California and a Lucas Cranach the Elder diptych Adam and Eve stolen from a Jewish art dealer, resulted in the same district court judgment, that “California’s three-year limitations period, applicable to actions to recover stolen property, began to run, with respect to action against museum seeking return of paintings allegedly looted by Nazis during World War II, when art dealer’s heir discovered or reasonably could have discovered her claim to paintings, and their whereabouts.” The heirs of the now deceased dealer bringing the claim for restitution, the court claimed, should have come forward sooner. That case is still under appeal, although another district court ruled in favor of the museum last June. The new law has a 10-year “sunset” provision, requiring Congress to extend the law or approve a new statute if it wishes to provide continuing assistance to the families seeking the ...

Powerful Photos Of Holocaust Refugees Mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

... years ago Friday, the Soviet army liberated 7,000 prisoners at Auschwitz, the largest of the Nazi's camps where at least 1.1 million people were murdered. Russell Neiss, a St. Louis man, chose to commemorate the day by creating the @Stl_Manifest Twitter account. Using information from the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the account is posting photos and names of people turned away at the United States border in 1939, only to be killed in the Holocaust. My latest twitter Bot uses data from @Holocaust Museum to remember the victims of the MS St. Louis w/ an eye to our current political climate. __link__/th Xny Pdh G 3. — Russel Neiss (@russelneiss) January 27, 2017. Inspired by the work of @HIASrefugees & others and in memory of the victims of Naziism turned away at the doorstep of America, I made this: __link__/x XEu Fx DOTE. — Russel Neiss (@russelneiss) January 27, 2017. The German ship St. Louis — carrying nearly 1,000 people, mostly Jewish refugees — attempted to land in Cuba and the United States in 1939, but were turned away. In the case of the U. S., the passengers weren't allowed in the country because they were ...