January 27, 2021
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Representatives of the Polish Association of the Righteous Among the Nations pay tribute in front of a monument dedicated to the victims of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, we, sons and grandsons of survivors, write to protest the falsification of history being perpetrated in our name at the projected Museum of the Warsaw Ghetto, due to open in 2023 for the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The Museum’s published mission is “To disseminate knowledge about the life, struggle and extermination of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto and in other ghettos in German-occupied Poland.” But the museum proposes simply to abandon the true story of the ghetto in midstream.
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Education about Holocaust is key to combating conspiracy theories today
One-third of Europeans have little to no knowledge of the Holocaust. Nearly one-quarter of young people in the United States believe the Holocaust is a myth, and in Canada, 52% of Millennials cannot name even one concentration camp or ghetto, while 22% don’t know, or are unsure if they have heard of the Holocaust. As we mark the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, unfortunately antisemitism is on the rise, just as we witness a disturbing decline in awareness of the Holocaust.
This is not without consequences. In 2019, violent antisemitic attacks worldwide rose 18 per cent over the previous year, with the highest number of incidents reported in major Western democracies, including the United States, France, the United Kingdom and Germany.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27, exists as an annual opportunity for the global community to commemorate the victims of the horrific crimes committed by the Nazis and their supporters and to learn about them. Remembrance means little without education, and this year, as far-right extremism has reached new peaks both domestically with the Capitol riot, and internationally, that mission is more significant than ever.
The urgency of Holocaust education has been apparent for years. When the Anti-Defamation League conducted our first Global 100 survey of antisemitic attitudes in 2014, the survey found that only 54% of those polled had heard of the Holocaust. Of those, 32% believed Holocaust accounts to be greatly exaggerated or a myth.
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Commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day in New Orleans The couple met after World War II when Vera was searching for her brother after liberation. Misha had lost his wife and all other close family. Vera had lost her husband, daughter and father. She and her mother were reunited with her brother. (Source: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum) By Nicondra Norwood | January 27, 2021 at 2:25 PM CST - Updated January 27 at 2:25 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The United Nations declared January 27th International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2005.
Set on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945 the day is meant as a time to memorialize the 6 million Jews and 11 million others killed in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II.