Holocaust Remembrance Day

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

... 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. January 27, 2017 1:45 pm. Report: Local Palestinian Family Helped Rescue Israelis Injured in Deadly West Bank Bus Crash. Members of a Palestinian family rushed to help rescue Israelis who were injured in a deadly bus accident that took. “You can see this in European capitals…. The rise of antisemitism, the resurgence of antisemitism that is happening, and few would have imagined that this would be possible a few years ago,” said Netanyahu. He emphasized, though, that Iran posed “the greatest danger that we face, of hatred for the Jewish people and the Jewish state.”. “The ayatollah regime is fanning [the] flames [of ...

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

... as Sami. That we can continue the legacy set by previous generations when they offered sanctuary rather than walls to those fleeing conflict and persecution. In the chaos of the Calais camp’s demolition last year, 200 children were brought to safety in Britain under Section 67 of the Immigration Act – the law eventually passed with widespread public support after a powerful national campaign. This scheme was specifically intended for unaccompanied child refugees in Europe who have no family in Britain or elsewhere in Europe. It is a start; but there is far more still to do. Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children virtually single-handedly from Czechoslovakia – as a country we can do more. In Greece, 25,000 children are still stuck in makeshift refugee camps in freezing temperatures with virtually no heating. In Italy, unaccompanied children ...

Holocaust Remembrance Day Reminds Us Why Resisting Trump Matters

... and another confirmation of his authoritarian tendencies. Trump’s approach to policy was as shocking to those who said give him a chance but predicable to anyone who was paying attention. Trump took the first steps to take healthcare away from 20 million Americans, abandon the TPP, “renegotiate” NAFTA, build that stupid wall, (though I prefer Vincente Fox’s adjective), turn our backs on refugees and put hostility towards immigrants into policy. It’s possible he may reinstitute torture and dark sites, though not without some form of resistance from within his own party. Steve Bannon, is Trump’s chief strategist. In his prior job, Bannon hired and published Holocaust deniers. This week he hired Julia Hahn , a Breitbart writer known for attacking Paul Ryan as a White House aide. Some observers believe Hahn is there to bring Republicans to heel, as a Bannon’s Bannon. Jeff Sessions’ racist past was enough to stop him from becoming an appellate court judge but, it appears, it won’t be enough to stop him from becoming the next Attorney-General. Predictably, Sessions and Bannon get along very well. ...

Jim Rakete's Photos Of Disabled Particularly Poignant On Holocaust Remembrance Day

... tasked with implementing the UN statute. Particular emphasis is put on inclusion. Pictured here are Monika Fitze and Karin Kersche. A matter of equality. These photos come from Jim Rakete's Berlin exhibition "We Are Many" in the Paul Löbe House. The show is part of the 150 th anniversary of the Bethel Institution, which has been taking care of young people with epilepsy in the north-western German city of Bielefeld since 1867. Today, the institution is one of the largest charitable outreach organizations in Europe. Pictured here is Jakob Buddenberg. Resistance among health professionals. When the Nazi regime told the Bethel Institution to euthanize its disabled patients they refused by not listing the names of the patients concerned. Doctors working at the institution rejected the idea of being part of government-mandated "euthanasia," although they were symphatetic to practices of eugenics and sterilization in some cases. Pictured ...

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

... targeted because they are Muslim in a situation like that of the Syrian refugees, they have no more say in the actions of their oppressive governments than the Jews did. The entire point is that many of those Muslims are facing violence because they stand in opposition to a violent, oppressive regime. To me, making the distinction of “Muslim fleeing Muslim violence” only matters if you think that innocent people fleeing their oppressive government or the violence crashing down around them somehow deserve what they get. For what? Existing? Being Muslim. But where the similarity really exists is in the United States’ attitude in both cases. Before the U. S. finally deigned to make its presence felt in WWII (and only after Pearl Harbor), it didn’t get involved, and it didn’t want to have to deal with refugees that needed help. We like to look back and think that the U. S. was this upstanding, moral place that totally defeated the Nazis. Captain America punching Hitler in the face. Sure ...

Powerful Photos Of Holocaust Refugees Mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

... prevent future genocide. The U. N. General Assembly established the day in 2005. It chose Jan. 27 to mark the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration, killing and labor camp. Seventy-two 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 ...

Holocaust Remembrance Day

... day it was Csengeri who took Eva and her sister in, cleaned them and clothed them. "I never had to worry about my food or safety and she treated us like one of her children.". Talking about the woman is the only time Eva sheds a tear. Csengeri was able to send the sisters home. Csengeri was one of the few survivors able to reunite with her family after liberation. Eva says she wasn't able to cope with her past until 1985 when she first started talking about it. It's been a long journey since then, although she doesn't consider herself a religious person, she does believe in forgiveness. "I discovered that I had one power, the power to forgive. I also think it's the secret to world peace.". Eva is still recovering after artery complications which lead to an infection in her leg that she was recently hospitalized for. Her birthday is just four days after Holocaust Remembrance Day, she first ...

Trump Targets Muslims, Refugees In New Executive Order Issued On Holocaust Remembrance Day

... for safe zones in Syria within 90 days. This would be be an escalation of U. S. involvement in Syria and could be the first official indication of how Trump will approach the conflict there. Expedite the completion of a biometric entry-exit tracking system for all visitors to the U. S. and require in-person interviews for all individuals seeking a nonimmigrant visa. Suspend the visa interview waiver program indefinitely and review whether existing reciprocity agreements are reciprocal in practice. Huffington Post. Shaker (L), Hajar (C) and Nabiha Darbi (R) are Syrian refugees living in Jersey City, NJ. Since arriving in the U. S. about 18 months ago, they've become almost fluent in English and are working hard in school in order to one day go to college and give back to their new country in meaningful ways. The executive order, one of many during Trump’s first week in office, is a radical departure from President Barack Obama’s efforts to admit more refugees and improve relationships with Muslims. The State Department is working to implement the executive ...

This Holocaust Remembrance Day, Something To Cheer For

... up in the collections of the Toledo Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Art. In 2007, a district court in Michigan refused to order the Detroit museum to return to the heirs of Martha Nathan an 1889 painting by Vincent van Gogh Les Becheurs (The Diggers) on the grounds that the sale took place in 1938 because the statute of limitations had long past. The year before, a district court in Ohio also refused to return to the heirs another artwork once owned by Martha Nathan and taken by the Nazis, Paul Gauguin’s 1891 Street Scene in Tahiti that was found 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 ...