In Amsterdam, the personal card of every Holocaust victim returns to Jewish hands
March 5, 2021
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.
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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(MENAFN - AzerNews) By Vafa Ismayilova
A monument erected as a sign of friendship between Israel and Armenia has been desecrated in Yerevan, Vestnik Kavkaza said, quoting social networking platforms.
Telegram distributes photographs of the memorial installed almost 12 years ago on the Armenia-Israel Friendship Alley in one of Yerevan s parks. Inscriptions on the memorial say Armenia-Israel Friendship Alley, 20.03.2009, Yerevan in Armenian and English. However, they are covered with bright red paint, the report added.
Earlier, a monument dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust was desecrated in central Yerevan.
Anti-Semitism and disrespect for Holocaust survivors is nothing new in Armenia.
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27th was commemorated with many worthy events in countries around the world, albeit while observing COVID-19 social-distancing measures. But can people, who are justifiably worried about their futures because of the pandemic, honestly believe that because 76-years have passed since the liberation of Auschwitz, antisemitism is no longer a problem?
I do not think so. Right now, conspiracy myths that were believed to have been debunked long ago are reappearing. Victims of the Shoah are mocked without consequences; at demonstrations in Germany and Austria against social-distancing requirements, coronavirus deniers waved banners reading, Vaccination makes you free, invoking the infamous German phrase cast in iron over the gates of Auschwitz, “
Corbyn s brother arrested over anti-vaccine flyers using Holocaust imagery
Pamphlet distributed in London features drawing of Auschwitz with infamous gate motto changed from Arbeit Macht Frei to Vaccines are safe path to freedom ; Labour MP slams leaflet as hideous imagery created by disgusting, dangerous cranks
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Published: 02.04.21 , 17:47
British police said on Thursday they had arrested two men on suspicion of distributing a leaflet with material that appeared to compare the COVID-19 vaccination to the Holocaust.
The British media named one of the two as 73-year-old Piers Corbyn, a known anti-vaccination activist and brother of former Labour head Jeremy Corbyn.