More broadly, a majority of elderly Austrians living in nursing homes have already received the first shot of a vaccine against COVID-19, the Austrian news agency APA reported.
Earlier this week, the president of the European Jewish Congress, or EJC, called on all countries in the European Union to ensure that Holocaust survivors have access to coronavirus vaccines as quickly as possible.
With the end of World War II now more than seven decades ago, the world s approximately 240,000 Holocaust survivors are all elderly. Since many were deprived of proper nutrition when they were young, they suffer from numerous medical issues today. In addition, many live isolated lives, having lost their entire families and also have psychological stresses because of their persecution under the Nazis.
The Luxembourg government has signed a deal to pay reparations and to restitute dormant bank accounts, insurance policies and looted art to Holocaust survivors
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At a time of rising Islamophobia as well as anti-Semitism both at home and abroad, Stephen B. Jacobs says the world must never forget how the predominantly Muslim nation of Albania told its wartime Nazi occupiers in no uncertain terms: Leave our Jews alone.
As a 5-year-old boy from the Polish city of Lodz, Jacobs had already survived the horrors of the Piotrków ghetto prior to its liquidation in 1942, as well as Germany’s infamous Buchenwald concentration camp, before ending up in the camp hospital’s tuberculosis ward. But he wasn’t sick. His father, a physician, had arranged to hide him and another boy there knowing no German would enter such a place until Buchenwald’s lib
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Trump impeachment attorney David Schoen (L) on Hannity on Fox News, February 2, 2021 (Screen capture)
In 1976, when I was a junior in high school, the last thing I wanted to do, ever, was going to the prom, but I was peer-pressured into going when a bunch of senior boys surrounded me and told me that their friend, David, was going to ask me to be his date and that if I didn’t say yes I’d crush him.
Dear Chair of the European Parliament s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy Cristian Busoi, Dear Ministers for Research and .
European Commission Press release Brussels, 02 Feb 2021 The European Commission has disbursed today €14 billion to Belgium, Cyprus, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Greece and Italy in the fourth instalment of financial support to Member States under the SURE instrument.
European Commission Speech Brussels, 01 Feb 2021 Dear friends, I am honoured to join B´nai B´rith on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. For a German like me, it will .