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El Al supports WJC Holocaust education initiative #WeRemember 25 Jan 2021 share this on
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Plane with #WeRemember campaign logo on Tel Aviv to Berlin route took first flight in lead-up to January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day
NEW YORK – Israeli national airline El Al flew a plane today from Tel Aviv to Berlin that was affixed with a #WeRemember logo, to convey the necessity of remembering the dark past of the Holocaust in order to ensure such atrocities never happen again.
This partnership is a first of its kind component of the World Jewish Congress’ fifth annual #WeRemember campaign to combat antisemitism and all forms of hatred, genocide and xenophobia. The campaign, which runs through International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, promotes the importance and advancement of Holocaust education.
In Amsterdam, the personal card of every Holocaust victim returns to Jewish hands January 25, 2021 11:45 am The Jewish Council of Amsterdam was a body set up by the Nazis to have Jews oversee preparations for the extermination of their own minority throughout the Netherlands during World War II. (Courtesy of the Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam)
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AMSTERDAM (JTA) Sonja Levy was a positive person who made an excellent first impression and whose important position exempted her from deportation, according to the personal card that the Jewish Council of Amsterdam made for her during the Nazi occupation.
But the accolades on the card weren’t enough to save Levy, a kindergarten teacher who was in her early 20s when the Germans invaded.
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On this fifth day of the week leading up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, I review this fifth document sent to my grandfather Jonas Noreika. It was in response to an order he wrote on August 22, 1941 (Day 3) demanding that all Jews and half-Jews in the district of Šiauliai (of which he was in command) be sent to Žagaré in a ghetto.