Holocaust Remembrance Day

Warnings Of Rising Xenophobia On Holocaust Remembrance Day

... the "destruction of humanity" and the "ocean of lost lives and hopes" in Oswiecim. "It's an open wound that may close sometimes but it shall never be fully healed and it must not be forgotten," she said. Dozens of Auschwitz survivors began a day of commemorations by placing wreaths and flowers at the infamous execution wall on the 72 nd anniversary of the camp's liberation by Soviet soldiers. The United Nations recognized January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2005, and many commemorative events were taking place across the world on Friday. • Prosecutor: Man attacks Muslim airline employee at JFK. "Tragically, and contrary to our resolve, anti-Semitism continues to thrive," U. N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in statement made in New York Thursday, and which was read out at the U. N. headquarters in Geneva on Friday. "We are also seeing a deeply troubling rise in extremism, xenophobia, ...

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

... Pictured here is Amine Öngün. More participation. About 7.6 million people in Germany have severe disabilities, 84 percent of whom were not born with their conditions. Jim Rakete is giving these people a voice. Vice-President of the Bundestag Ulla Schmidt said Germany's disabled population "still has to struggle to get noticed in any social setting." Pictured here are Katharina und Jakob Buddenberg. Author: Julia Hitz (ss). Germany commemorates the victims of the Nazis' "T 4" program at this year's Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27. Within this euthanasia program, more than 70,000 disabled people - "burdensome lives" according to Nazi propaganda - were systematically killed. As German marks the Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, moving portraits of disable individuals by Jim Rakete are being shown at the Paul Löbe House located in Berlin's government quarter. The star photographer captured individuals with a wide variety of both physical and mental disabilities. Systematic ...

Holocaust Remembrance Day

... girls bread at night, a delicacy Eva never had. Following Liberation 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 ...

Holocaust Remembrance Day Reminds Us Why Resisting Trump Matters

... The last thing we should do is “accept” a man who has embraced many of the ideological characteristics that made the Holocaust possible. The week since Trump took the oath of office (has it only been a week?) was like a continuous cruel joke on this day that people around the world dedicate to remembering where hate leads. The Holocaust didn’t just happen one day. It began with words and propaganda much like what we have heard and seen from Donald Trump since the day he announced his candidacy. The words and propaganda were followed by armbands, national registries, banning people for who they are, taking rights away one by one. All that happened before the camps. Trump is utilizing propaganda tactics that are the life’s blood of authoritarian regimes – regardless of ideology. It began with the illusion of massive support, thanks to paid fans, the day he announced a candidacy that would shock and horrify people with two or more brain cells to rub together. Trump has supporters who hang on his every word to the point that even when he is caught in a boldfaced lie, they ...

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

... 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 their journey. Just beside the tracks, husbands and wives, sons and daughters and brothers and sisters were torn from each other. Most never saw their relatives again. Hannah Bills. A group of visitors move through the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Viewed from the main entrance watchtower of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Hannah Bills. "The Final Solution": The scale of the extermination efforts of the Nazis ...

This Holocaust Remembrance Day, Something To Cheer For

... when the original theft occurred. “It’s a more generous statute of limitations, applying to claims now pending and those artworks yet to be identified and claimed,” said Amelia K. Brankov, an attorney specializing in art law at the New York City-based firm of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. The importance of granting a longer statute of limitations than the more typical three years that most states allow is a lengthy and expensive process, according to Judith Wallace, a lawyer in the firm of Carter Ledyard and Milburn. “You have to put together the evidence and get the money together to pursue a claim,” she said. “Very often, the reason people take so long making a claim is financial.” The legislation itself specifically notes that “Those seeking recovery of Nazi-confiscated art must painstakingly piece together their cases from a fragmentary historical record ravaged by ...

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

... that say that we shouldn’t compare “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 ...

A Third Of Survivors In The Us Are Poor

... losing their families during the war and then either did not or could not have children," said Pearl. "Many started working in menial jobs because they did not have the language skills. Today they are in their 80 s and 90 s and it is beyond difficult to make ends meet.". Medical experiments performed on Jews held in Nazi concentration camps have also put survivors at higher risk for costly diseases, such as cancer. Sami Steigmann spent his early childhood years in a Nazi labor camp. Years later, he was told by his father that he was subjected to medical experiments, which still cause him pain today at 77. "I'm a proud person, I never wanted to reach out for help," he said. But after years of struggle and "getting involved with the wrong people," he found himself homeless. "I'm not a street person, I wanted to commit suicide," he said. It was only then ...