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Ben Lesser, 94-year-old Holocaust survivor, was presented with the “Cross of the Order of Merit” by the German Consul General Stefan Schneider in Los Angeles on March 14.


The award ceremony took place at the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Los Angeles. Lesser was surrounded by a group of family members including his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, as well as staff from the Consulate General.


Some of Lesser's family members traveled from across the country to support him at the award ceremony.

Honored by the country that created the camps​

“To be honored by the very country that housed the camps where so many perished was a major surprise and a massive honor,” said Lesser. “With rising antisemitism in the US and across the world, sharing my story in partnership with Germany is more important than ever. I was proud to accept yesterday’s award on behalf of all survivors, and all those who are not here to tell their stories.”


Lesser founded the ZACHOR Holocaust Remembrance Foundation in 2009 in order to prevent the world from forgetting about the events of the Holocaust.


Through the Foundation he developed ZACHOR Holocaust Curriculum, the first-ever curriculum that was fully created and facilitated by a living Holocaust survivor and has been used by thousands of schools worldwide.

Ben Lesser and his family at the award ceremony in Los Angeles. (credit: COURTESY GERMAN CONSULATE LOS ANGELES)

“Dear Benjamin Lesser,” said Consul General Stefan Schneider, “your contribution to keeping awareness of the Shoah alive is just wonderful and simply inspiring, especially your pivotal role in its commemoration and your tremendous endeavors in reconciliation. It is truly touching how you reach out to the German people. We all remember together. ZACHOR!”

Holocaust survivor honored with Germany's Order of Merit

Lesser survived four concentration camps, including Auschwitz, a seven-week Death March, and the notorious ill-fated three-week Death Train from Buchenwald to Dachau.

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Remembering Jan Karski | Great Performances | PBS

“Remembering Jan Karski," is a companion piece to the remarkable film, "Remember This." In a stunning one-man performance, actor David Strathairn portrays Karski, a Polish hero who tried to warn a disbelieving world about Nazi atrocities. Exploring Hate goes behind the scenes to interview the...

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If you’ve used Wikipedia to research the Holocaust, you may be a victim of a group of self-appointed “editors” who have been deliberately warping Wikipedia’s Holocaust articles for years.

For the last ten years, a group of committed Wikipedia editors have been promoting a skewed version of history on Wikipedia whitewashing the role of Polish society in the Holocaust and bolstering stereotypes about Jews,” explains Shira Klein, an associate professor of history at Chapman University in California, who’s tracked this gang’s insidious activities.


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Wikipedia Editors Deliberately Distorted Holocaust Articles - Aish.com

For over a decade, a group of nefarious editors has been distorting Holocaust entries.

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https://www.thejc.com/news/news/dorothy-bohm-photographer-who-fled-nazis-dies-at-98-5s9MtwPj8JkfyOQFlQzpVe

 

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Mr Brent stated how YIVO’s archive served as evidence of the various means of resistance from Jewish communities during the Holocaust, refuting the lie that Jews went to their deaths “like sheep to the slaughter”.

Mr Brent said of Jewish people persecuted in the Holocaust: “You have to remember, they had no army. They had no police. They had no means, they didn’t have guns. What did they have? They had the resilience.”

The YIVO CEO spoke passionately of the “inner resilience” and “cultural resistance” that can be seen throughout the archives.

He said: “The Jewish people of Eastern Europe responded largely through trying to organise their societies, to cope with these outbreaks of antisemitism…we have photographs of these Jewish defence committees throughout the Pale of Settlement. But what could they do when there were thousands, tens of thousands, of angry Ukrainians or Lithuanians or Romanians, let alone the Nazis, that came?

“So what did they do? Many became partisans and one of the fantastic things that has come out of the materials that we have is the diary of Yitskhok Rudashevski, a young boy – again, thirteen years old – who wrote his diary in the Vilna Ghetto, and he talks about how what they are doing in the Vilna Ghetto in retaining their traditions, in singing songs, in having literary events, in putting on music, in reading poetry, in writing poetry, how this is defying the Nazis. This is their act of defiance.”

Mr Brent noted that “yes, it is a tragic story but within this tragic story, there is so much to be proud of. So much to think about in terms of how, as a small people, one deals with these forces that are growing in the 1920s.”

Outlining the multitude of threats that the Jewish world faced, he added: “There was Bolshevism to the East, and Nazism to the West, and America would not let Jews in. And what could you do? You were stuck. The world would not let Jews in.

“They resisted, in the ways that they could, and thank God that they did, because that resistance gave them dignity, and that is the thread that connects us to them. That dignity. That pride, that they had in being who they are.”

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Executive Director and CEO of YIVO Jonathan Brent exposes the lie that Jews went “like sheep to the slaughter” during the Holocaust

Jonathan Brent, an academic and historian who serves as the Executive Director and CEO of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, appeared on the most recent episode of Podcast Against Antisemitism where he explained what YIVO’s archive can teach about Eastern European Jewry response to the rise...

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When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, German universities immediately began a policy of “self-coordination” with their National Socialist masters.

In just a few months, 15 percent of the country’s university faculty members were dismissed. Most professors were fired for their political stances while several thousand scholars were eliminated for being Jewish.

For “The Betrayal of the Humanities: The University during the Third Reich,” released last fall, more than a dozen scholars contributed essays on the complicity of German universities before, during and after Nazi rule.

“Our book is an affirmation not only of the humanities but of the role of the university in protecting democratic values,” said co-editor Bernard M. Levinson, who holds the Berman Family Chair of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible at the University of Minnesota.

In 1933, as Albert Einstein preemptively renounced his German citizenship from Belgium, copies of his works were set ablaze across the Reich by the German Student Union. Heralding the “death of Jewish intellectualism,” the regime sought to remake the academy in its own image.

In an interview with The Times of Israel, Levinson said the preface of his book — which was co-edited by Robert P. Ericksen, chair of the Committee on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum — was finalized on January 6, 2021: the day Congress was stormed.


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How Nazi-sympathizing scholars prepared the ideological groundwork for genocide

'Betrayal of the Humanities' anthology examines 'self-coordination' of German academicians in advancing Third Reich's 'racial' policies -- before, during and even after the war

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Poland’s PM honors citizens who helped Jews during Holocaust

As part of nationwide observances, Duda praises those whose 'Christian values and ethics were stronger than the fear of death, not only theirs, but also of their families'

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WWII Series About Diaries of Dutch Author Murdered in Auschwitz to Be Led by Famed Israeli Director - Algemeiner.com WWII Series About Diaries of Dutch Author Murdered in Auschwitz to Be Led by Famed Israeli Director

Israeli director, producer and screenwriter Hagai Levi will write and direct a series called The Girl Who Learned How to Kneel that is loosely based on the diary entries of Dutch author Etty Hillesum during World War II before she was deported and murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp...

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My grandmother Golda Silberman with my uncle, Michael, 1939, strolling down the Keyserlie in Antwerp. This was taken about a year before the entire family fled with some friends in a caravan of vehicles from the Nazi invasion. Some turned back, reason unknown, and did not survive. They travelled through occupied France, into Spain and then on a ship from Portugal. Entry into the US was denied due to national immigration quotas imposed before the Roosevelt administration (but enforced assiduously by that administration), so they settled in Brazil and within a year managed to emmigrate to the US.

Berl Kaufman.

 

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My grandmother Golda Silberman with my uncle, Michael, 1939, strolling down the Keyserlie in Antwerp. This was taken about a year before the entire family fled with some friends in a caravan of vehicles from the Nazi invasion. Some turned back, reason unknown, and did not survive. They travelled through occupied France, into Spain and then on a ship from Portugal. Entry into the US was denied due to national immigration quotas imposed before the Roosevelt administration (but enforced assiduously by that administration), so they settled in Brazil and within a year managed to emmigrate to the US.

Berl Kaufman.


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A Warm Welcome for Some: Israel Embraces Immigration of Jewish Diaspora, Sharply Restricts Labor Migrants and Asylum Seekers

Israel has a remarkably open immigration system for anyone who can prove Jewish ethnicity. But as this country profile explores, migration is extremely difficult for non-Jews, including asylum seekers. This article describes immigration flows under the Law of Return and examines labor migration...

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Jews strictly enforce their own immigration and racial preference laws. They even discriminate against the wortld's largest Jewish sect.

As for FDR and the U.S,, we already had a large percentage of the world's Jews and other refugees, far more than any other country still today. We were still letting in immigrants during the Great Depression, when we had the highest unemployment rates in our history. Don't forget to leave all this out while complaining about the U.S. but never mentioning all the other countries in the world who didn't take in refugees.

 

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Don't forget to leave all this out while complaining about the U.S. but never mentioning all the other countries in the world who didn't take in refugees.

Is that what you’d like? Me to mention all the other countries?

Although l heard of someone who found refuge in Shanghai.

And who is complaining?

 

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Is that what you’d like? Me to mention all the other countries?

Although l heard of someone who found refuge in Shanghai.

And who is complaining?

Mindful----you are, clearly, not familiar with islamo-nazi propaganda

 

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Is that what you’d like? Me to mention all the other countries?

Although l heard of someone who found refuge in Shanghai.

And who is complaining?

You are. There is some ongoing fictional belief that the U.S. is obligated to be the world's dumping ground for its problem children; nearly every article on the subject treats FDR as if he did something bad and horrible or something. He didn't, so get over it. He was an American President, not a German one. Just ask the millions of Jews here who voted for him.

AS for Shanghai, they took some in, they also kept many out; never hear about that, though.

A Warm Welcome for Some: Israel Embraces Immigration of Jewish Diaspora, Sharply Restricts Labor Migrants and Asylum Seekers

Israel has a remarkably open immigration system for anyone who can prove Jewish ethnicity. But as this country profile explores, migration is extremely difficult for non-Jews, including asylum seekers. This article describes immigration flows under the Law of Return and examines labor migration...

www.migrationpolicy.org

Shanghai was notable for a long period as the only place in the world that unconditionally offered refuge for Jews escaping from the Nazis.

Yet few went there.

We can compare how many Jews they took in compared to the U.S. allowing tens of thousands in under the German quotas. We still allowed in far more than anybody else even during the Depression. So why is FDR viewed negatively while Shanghai and its ten Jews or whatever treated differently even in Wiki articles? Why were other counties not an option?

 

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Mindful----you are, clearly, not familiar with islamo-nazi propaganda

You are clearly familiar with Orthodox Jewish propaganda, though; all you Jewish racists are.

 

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You are. There is some ongoing fictional belief that the U.S. is obligated to be the world's dumping ground for its problem children; nearly every article on the subject treats FDR as if he did something bad and horrible or something. He didn't, so get over it. He was an American President, not a German one. Just ask the millions of Jews here who voted for him.

AS for Shanghai, they took some in, they also kept many out; never hear about that, though.

A Warm Welcome for Some: Israel Embraces Immigration of Jewish Diaspora, Sharply Restricts Labor Migrants and Asylum Seekers

Israel has a remarkably open immigration system for anyone who can prove Jewish ethnicity. But as this country profile explores, migration is extremely difficult for non-Jews, including asylum seekers. This article describes immigration flows under the Law of Return and examines labor migration...

www.migrationpolicy.org

Shanghai was notable for a long period as the only place in the world that unconditionally offered refuge for Jews escaping from the Nazis.

Yet few went there.

We can compare how many Jews they took in compared to the U.S. allowing tens of thousands in under the German quotas. We still allowed in far more than anybody else even during the Depression. So why is FDR viewed negatively while Shanghai and its ten Jews or whatever treated differently even in Wiki articles? Why were other counties not an option?

I never said any of that! It’s you who’s twisting the narrative.

If you want to get upset and offended, it’s up to you. Don’t dump it on me.

I’m merely adhering to the OP.

 

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You are clearly familiar with Orthodox Jewish propaganda, though; all you Jewish racists are.