admin | January 29, 2020
Looking at the news over the last few years, the landscape of hate appears to be disturbingly broad, stretching from Parkland to Pittsburgh, from Poway to El Paso.
admin | January 29, 2020
Jonathan A. Greenblatt, Opinion contributor Published 7:00 a.m. ET Jan.
admin | January 29, 2020
Benjamin Netanyahu is not one for expressing gratitude to fellow politicians, unless its to President Donald Trump and other fellow strongmen. So his tweet on Thursday thanking the retired Likud minister Silvan Shalom for having led the diplomatic campaign at the United Nations to establish International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 15 years ago, was an anomaly.
admin | January 29, 2020
What is Holocaust denial? The answer to this question may seem obvious to Haaretz readers and to the impressive roster of world leaders gathering at Yad Vashem this week for the Fifth World Holocaust Forum, marking 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. Holocaust denial is a vile assault on the memory of the six million Jews murdered by Nazi Germany and its accomplices, a depraved twisting of the anti-Semitic knife.
admin | January 29, 2020
I travel a lot, because Im curious and love to fly. My recent visit to Krakow was nothing but a distortion of the victims of the Holocaust, but also Oskar Schindler. Poland has in recent years elected a far-right, Catholic, populist government whose main goals seems to be to forbid abortions, denying any refugees entrance (in direct violation with the Geneva convention) and re-shaping the Polish historical narrative.
admin | January 29, 2020
Its now 75 years since Soviet troops liberated the notorious death camp at Auschwitz and the vast majority of Holocaust survivors are no longer with us. The impact of continuing to research the Holocaust can, therefore, not be underestimated
admin | January 29, 2020
On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz. The date is now consecrated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, as the world vowed never to allow murderous anti-Semitism to recur.
admin | January 29, 2020
The 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz comes at a time when populism, nationalism, and anti-Semitism are again on the rise. The duty to remember the Holocaust is threatened both by its political instrumentalization, and by the natural human proclivity to forget the past or become indifferent to the suffering of others
admin | January 29, 2020
In 2011, a Polish historian, Jan Grabowski, published an explosive account of the actions of Polish citizens during the Holocaust, focusing on the community of Dabrowa Tarnowska, where Jewish Poles were hunted down and murdered by their Polish neighbours. The book provoked a firestorm in his native country and almost a decade later Grabowski - a history professor at the University of Ottawa - remains embroiled in legal challenges
admin | January 29, 2020
President Reuven Rivlin addressed the Bundestag, German parliament, on Wednesday morning, to speak about the resurgence of antisemitism and the recently released peace plan of US President Donald Trump. Speaking at a special session of the Bundestag in memory of the victims of Nazism, the presidents speech marked the culmination of a week of Holocaust remembrance services. Rivlin spoke at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem last week and addressed Holocaust survivors at a commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Monday
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