BY Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller Protestant pastor and righteous gentile living in Nazi Germany— When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did…
By INNA ROGATHCHI— A special exhibition of The Auschwitz Album Re-Visited will be opened at the Jewish People Memory and Holocaust Museum in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, in commemoration of the International Holocaust and Remembrance Day at the end of January 2014. The exhibition–representing the unique art work by the well-known American artist Pat Mercer Hutchens–is curated…
By BAN KI-MOON, YNET— This year’s observance of the International Remembrance Day on January 27 – the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp – falls at a time when there are reminders all around us of the dangers of forgetting. This year marks two decades since the genocide in Rwanda. Conflicts in…
By DAN MARGALIT, ISRAEL HAYOM— An unprecedented Israeli delegation will attend Monday’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day events in Poland. In a week where SS commander Heinrich Himmler’s personal letters were unearthed, it is only symbolic that the sovereign Jewish state makes this symbolic gesture. The renewed interest in the Holocaust can be attributed to the…
BY ARYEH SAVIR, YNET— Yad Vashem held an event last Thursday posthumously honoring Maria Zurawska as Righteous Among the Nations from Poland. The medal and certificate of honor were accepted by her daughter, Bronislawa Skoczylas, who arrived from Poland to attend the ceremony. The ceremony took place in the presence of Polish Ambassador to Israel…
In 1941, Haj Amin al-Husseini fled to Germany and met with Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Joachim Von Ribbentrop and other Nazi leaders. He wanted to persuade them to extend the Nazis’ anti-Jewish program to the Arab world. The Mufti sent Hitler 15 drafts of declarations he wanted Germany and Italy to make concerning the Middle…
By RON JAGER— Most of us may not have heard of it until recently if at all, but the ‘quenelle’, the name given to a gesture which is performed by pointing one arm diagonally downwards, while touching that arm’s shoulder with the opposite hand, has become an important symbol of the shift in Europe transforming…
By VLADIMIR TISMANEANU, FRONTPAGEMAG— Almost sixty-one years ago, in November 1952, in Prague, the former secretary general of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, a diehard, fanatic Stalinist, Rudolf Slansky, and 13 other prominent communists, mostly Jewish, were sentenced to death for alleged treason and Zionist conspiracy. At the same time, Stalin’s terminal paranoia led to the…
By SULTAN KNISH— In one of the most famous events in the Bible, G-d commanded Abraham to sacrifice his only son. So Abraham took his son Isaac, bound him on an altar and prepared to bring him up as a burnt offering. And then the voice of the angel called to him and told him…
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— In a throwback to its darkest past, the German government recently decided to back an initiative which singles out Jewish-owned businesses and targets them for detrimental treatment. Joining 13 other European Union members, Berlin has reportedly agreed to support efforts aimed at applying special labels of origin to products manufactured by…