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Wilfrid Israel, a wealthy businessman, saved thousands of Jews in Nazi Germany and was instrumental in the founding of Kibbutz Hazorea. But for many years, he was an unsung hero, and to the consternation of Israeli filmmaker Yonatan Nir, not a single street in Israel has been named after this heroic figure.
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London [UK], January 28 (ANI): On the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday, prominent Jewish figures spoke out over China's state-run campaign against its minority communities including Uyghurs in the Xinjiang province.
New York Times published my op-ed “No More Lies” yesterday, and it was a bit overwhelming.
On the day after International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, I review this seventh document signed by my grandfather Jonas Noreika.
It is a short note of just three lines written on October 6, 1941 four days after the massacre of more than 2,000 Jews in Žagarė. The date of the slaughter was October 2, 1941 which happened to be Yom Kippur. Jewish bodies were dumped into a mass death pit in Naryshkin Park. Children and babies were thrown into the pit while still alive, and were suffocated to death.
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Germany is pressing the European Commission to give member states the power to block the export of coronavirus vaccines produced in the EU as tensions mounted over shortfalls in supply.
Health minister Jens Spahn, whose country hosts a number of vaccine manufacturing sites, urged Brussels to force companies to obtain permission before shipping jabs outside the bloc.
“It would mean that vaccines that leave the EU need a permit, so that at least we know what’s produced in Europe, what is leaving Europe, where it’s leaving Europe for, and we have a fair distribution,” he said.