Showing posts with label Holocaust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holocaust. Show all posts
Sunday, January 24, 2021
In this original Holocaust film, a Jewish inmate makes up a language to survive
JTA — For a movie about the Holocaust, the Belarussian film “Persian Lessons” has some comic potential. Set in a concentration camp somewhere in Western Europe, it involves a Jewish inmate who survives by giving Farsi lessons to a Nazi
Holocaust commission gets new life; atrocities to be recalled this week in Texas, San Antonio
A recommendation to abolish the state’s 12-year-old Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission has been modified to keep the organization active but under closer scrutiny by the Texas Historical Commission.
“Everything is working out
Holocaust Memorial Day: #everynamecounts
This is how a 21-year-old teacher from France is described on his "prisoner's personal card" when he was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944. The term "l. eingebog." probably stands for "slightly bent in."
Paul Le Goupil's name
Two remaining survivors to attend Irish Holocaust memorial
Ireland's two remaining Holocaust survivors will be joined by the Taoiseach Micheál Martin for a live broadcast of the National Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration later today.
This year the commemoration will take place virtually due to Covid-19 restrictions.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Jabotinsky: Israel Created In Spite of the Holocaust
Yonaton Touval’s op-ed “Israel’s identity crisis” raises the difficult question of how to define Jewish identity. One can be Jewish without being observant, or for that matter without being religious at all. Neither is the issue a question of race, for Jews have no genetic particularity. We don’t have a common language, nor even a common culture, and the approximately 130 different nationalities present in modern-day Israel certainly offer sufficient proof of our heterogeneous origins.
There is no Jewish nationality, neither in its older definition of being interconnected by a common history and destiny, nor in its modern meaning, that of being united by a common territorial and political entity.
And so we are a people. A kind of family, held together not uniquely by the memory of an ancient religion, but belonging the one to the other in virtue of our very identification with the Jewish people.
Jabotinsky focused on the Jewish connection to Israel. “No person can remove our rights to this land,' he declared. “The only thing that can take away our rights is if we forget them.”
Jews have a right to the land of Israel under international law, a fact that too few Israelis are aware of, he said.
When asked if the state of Israel was created due to international guilt over the Holocaust, he replied, “Israel was created in spite of the Holocaust, not because of it.” International recognition of the Jewish people's right to reestablish its homeland began decades earlier, he noted.
Minister of Education Gidon Saar and Vice Minister Silvan Shalom spoke about issues regarding the Palestinian Authority, and in particular, the PA's threat to go to the United Nations in September for unilateral recognition of a PA-led Arab state in Judea and Samaria.
Both agreed that the PA is likely to enjoy an automatic pro-Arab majority in the General Assembly, but that Israel stands a chance of getting a “quality minority” to oppose the measure.
Saar and Shalom also discussed their latest political initiatives, such as Saar's plans for educational reform and cheaper schooling, and Shalom's hopes to move Israel to a Saturday-Sunday weekend.
The conference was brought to a close by local Likud activist Daniel Tauber, who called on those present to be politically active. Tauber quoted Jabotinsky's Anthem of Beitar, saying, “Silence is despicable, it leads to a loss of flesh and blood.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Israel voices Jewish shock over Auschwitz theft
JERUSALEM :Israeli President Shimon Peres on Friday expressed the Jewish people's "deepest shock" over the theft of the "Arbeit macht frei" sign from the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland.
In a special meeting with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on the sidelines of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, Peres "expressed the deepest shock of Israel's citizens and the Jewish community across the world," his office said in a statement.
"The sign holds deep historical meaning for both Jews and non-Jews alike as a symbol of the more than one million lives that perished at Auschwitz," Peres was quoted as saying. The State of Israel and the international Jewish community ask that you make every effort to find the criminals and return the sign to its place," he told Tusk.
The director of Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial earlier condemned the theft of the infamous sign as a "declaration of war."
"This act constitutes a true declaration of war. We don't know the identity of the perpetrators but I assume they are neo-Nazis," Avner Shalev said in a statement.
"These people want to bring Europe back 70 years to the dark years of death and destruction," he added.
"I am certain the Polish government will do everything possible to track down those criminals and put them on trial," he said, urging "the enlightened world to work together against anti-Semitism and racism in all its forms."
Foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor called the theft "the act of a deranged person."
And an Israeli minister branded the theft "an abominable act that amounts to profanation."
"This act demonstrates once again hatred and violence against Jews," said Regional Development Minister Silvan Shalom, one of Israel's two vice prime ministers.
In Poland, museum staff and police said thieves had stolen the infamous Arbeit macht frei (Work will set you free) sign earlier on Friday.
The theft of the metal sign -- which was forged by prisoners on Nazi orders, and was one of the most sinister examples of their propaganda -- sent shockwaves across Poland
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