Personal Thoughts on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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Today, the world remembers the 11 million innocent people murdered by the Nazi Regime in 1940s Germany, at a time when the free world is plagued with targeted hatred and bigotry.
According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum s website, there were far more people who died during the Holocaust than the 6 million Jews who were killed. The website indicates that German authorities also persecuted other groups because of their perceived racial and biological inferiority. These included Roma ( Gypsies ), people with disabilities, some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others), Soviet prisoners of war and Black people, the website states.
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On January 27 communities worldwide commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz the largest complex of concentration camps and extermination centres during the Holocaust. This is the first year the International Holocaust Remembrance Day will be marked nationally in Australia.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will address the event, which demonstrates the importance the government ascribes to Holocaust commemoration.
In October 2019, after two cases of serious anti-Semitism in schools (one where a Jewish student was forced to kiss the feet of another student) Josh Frydenberg urged schools to deliver more history lessons about the Holocaust. He said:
If they [bullies] understood and comprehended the atrocities of the Holocaust, they would be as insulted as anybody, including me, about these recent attacks.
Holocaust commission gets new life; atrocities to be recalled this week in Texas, San Antonio
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Nehemia “Nammie” Ichilov, director of the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio and interim Chief Executive Officer of the Jewish Federation of San Antonio, is standing in the museum on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021Lisa Krantz /Staff photographer
A recommendation to abolish the state’s 12-year-old Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission has been modified to keep the organization active but under closer scrutiny by the Texas Historical Commission.
“Everything is working out now, and we are still in existence,” said Lynne Aronoff, chairwoman of the Holocaust commission. “We believe that we’ll emerge from this important process stronger and improved as a result.”
Nicky & Vera by Petr Sís is based on the stories of Sir Nicholas Winton and Vera Gissing, one of the children the Briton managed to save from Prague in 1939.