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New York Daily News: Holocaust Remembrance Day Marks 69 Years since Nazi Auschwitz Death Camp’s Liberation
The international ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial on Monday remembered some 6 million Holocaust victims, and some 1.5 million victims of Auschwitz, who were...
Bloomberg: Auschwitz Survivors Mark Liberation Anniversary
Source: Bloomberg
A European Jewish leader condemned anti-Semitism as a crime on Monday as Auschwitz survivors and Israeli officials marked 69 years since the liberation...
EJP: EU Parliament President Schulz on International Holocaust Remembrance Day: ‘Holding a Memorial Ceremony Cannot Undo the Atrocities That Happened To So Many Families...
Source: European Jewish Press
“Anti-Semitism and racism are a threat to our basic values - those of democracy and respect for diversity and human rights,’’...
Associated Press: Auschwitz Survivors, Israeli Lawmakers Mark 69 Years since Camp’s Liberation
Source: Associated Press
A European Jewish leader condemned anti-Semitism as a crime on Monday as Auschwitz survivors and Israeli officials marked 69 years since the...
The Guardian: Auschwitz Survivors Mark 69 Years since Liberation of Nazi Death Camp
A European Jewish leader condemned antisemitism as a crime on Monday as Auschwitz survivors and Israeli officials marked 69 years since the liberation of...
The Washington Post: Auschwitz Survivors Mark Liberation Anniversary
A European Jewish leader condemned anti-Semitism as a crime on Monday as Auschwitz survivors and Israeli officials marked 69 years since the liberation of...
Jerusalem Post: As World Marks Int’l Holocaust Day, PM Decries Silence over Iran’s Annihilative Ambitions
Questioning Israel's basic right to exist "undermines the foundations of Western civilization," Netanyahu says.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu railed against what he termed the world’s...
Jewish Journal: Anti-Semitism Past and Current Decried At Holocaust Memorials
The president of the European Jewish Congress, making reference to the quenelle gesture, decried a new wave of anti-Semitism sweeping Europe at an International...
WJC: Europe Remembers Holocaust – Lauder and Kantor Warn Of Rise of Extreme-Right
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder today said the lessons from the Holocaust were an obligation to overcome indifference and speak out against...
EJP: International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the European Parliament on Monday
The European Parliament and the European Jewish Congress will host the official annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony at the European Parliament premises in...
Holocaust Memorial to Become Official EP Event. No room for anti-Semitism in the EU, declares EP President
Source: European Coalition for Israel
It all started nine years ago in January 2005, when the European Coalition for Israel, together with MEP Hannu Takkula,...
EJP: Martin Schulz Stresses Importance of Binding Annual Shoah Commemoration in the European Parliament
Source: European Jewish Press
European Parliament President Martin Schulz on Tuesday stressed the importance of an annual binding commemoration of the Shoah by the EU...
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World Holocaust Forum President Dr. Moshe Kantor tells assembled world leaders that with current levels of emigration there could be no Jewish communities in...
(Jerusalem, Thursday, January 23, 2020) – President of the World Holocaust Forum and the European Jewish Congress Dr. Moshe Kantor told the almost fifty...
Address by President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier to the Fifth World Holocaust Forum. Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
“Blessed be the Lord for enabling me to be here at this day.”
“What a blessing, what a gift, it is for me to be...
Address by the President of the State of Isreal Reuven Rivlin to the Fifth World Holocaust Forum. Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
“On 27 January 1945, the gates of hell were opened. Auschwitz, the greatest machine of human destruction history has ever known, was liberated. The...
Speech by President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum event at Yad Vashem
Mr President,
Mr Prime Minister,
colleagues,
friends,
ladies and gentlemen,
Today we are brought together at the international forum to honour the victims of the Holocaust by a shared...
