October 31, 2021 at 12:58 pm Dedicated pediatrician in Krefeld : Stolperstein commemorates Nazi victim Kurt Hirschfelder – A portrait of Hirschfelder was put up when the Stolperstein was laid. Photo: City of Krefeld / Jochmann, Dirk (dj) – – Krefeld The pediatrician shot himself 80 years ago with his service weapon from the First … Read more
Very harsh stance of the leaders of the Italian Jewish communities after the images of the arm extended towards the Lazio fans, with choirs to the duce, by the trainer of the eagle Olimpia “No ambiguity” — “In front of the ostentation of gestures and symbols that evoke fascist ideals – writes Di Segni – … Read more
Eastern Europe 6-8/2012)”>- – Eastern Europe 6-8/2012Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel (eds.)Berlin (BWV) 2012 [= Osteuropa 6-8/2012]560 p., 15 maps, 53 ills.Price: € 32.00ISBN: 978-3-8305-3110-4 Contents and abstracts in English contents Marija LipmanDouble polarizationFull textRussia’s divided society Vladimir Gel’manCracks in the systemRussia’s Authoritarianism 2012 Richard SakwaAnatomy of a blockageFull textStandstill in the dual state of Russia … Read more
Exactly 80 years ago, on October 16, 1941, the first train transport with Czech Jews to the ghetto in Lodz, Poland, left the Prague-Bubny railway station. He started the Nazi liquidation of approximately 80,000 Czech Jews who perished in occupied Poland, the Baltics and Belarus. The transports did not arouse greater interest of the Czech … Read more
According to CT foreign correspondent David Borek, Israel has ignored the growing wave of crime in the past. “Many Israeli politicians have not seen a link between crime and murder. They didn’t see a package that was related. And that it is not an ad hoc series, but that it is really a phenomenon, “said … Read more
Photo: president.gov.ua Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center – – The head of state thanked the international guests for their visit and called the presence of the leaders of Israel and Germany at the event symbolic. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, German leader Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Head of the State of Israel Yitzhak … Read more
Photo: DW The first of 80 “stumbling blocks” in Kiev – – In the near future, the German Embassy plans to install nine more such memorials, and over the next 70 years. On the 80th anniversary tragedies at Babi Yar in the capital of Ukraine for the first time a “stumbling block” appeared – the … Read more
Photo: National Police of Ukraine Hasidim calmly celebrated Rosh Hashanah in Uman – – Police have stepped up patrols to enforce law and order at places where pilgrims board buses. On Wednesday evening, Hasidic pilgrims began to leave the city of Uman for their countries of permanent residence. About it informs National Police on September … Read more
Photo: Correspondent.net More than half of Jews live outside Israel – – 25.3 million people are eligible for Israeli citizenship, and 15.2 million people do not identify with another religion. The Jewish agency Sokhnut has counted the number of Jews around the world at 15.2 million. At the same time, less than half of all … Read more
In honor of the victims, authentic memories were read at the event when, at the beginning of the Nazi occupation, Jews were forced to carry horse manure in a garage yard and later fatally beaten. Faina Kukliansky, the chairwoman of the Lithuanian Jewish community, emphasized that with the beginning of the Nazi occupation, Jews had … Read more