Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Seven Holocaust Films You Should See | My Jewish Learning

The inherent drama of the Holocaust lends itself, too easily, to bad filmmaking. The less-talented filmmaker relies on tropes so ...

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In August, 1943, small items appeared in some American newspapers indicating that, by the way, 3,000,000 Jews had been murdered so far during the war.



The 300 page report by the Institute for Jewish Affairs was remarkably detailed, indicating that the news of the Holocaust was getting out - but no one besides Jews cared to listen.

Titled "Hitler's Ten Year War on the Jews," it goes through every country and every region in Nazi-occupied Europe and describes what happened to the people there.

The Holocaust was well documented even by 1943, but the world didn't care

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Holocaust Remembrance Day: 6 lessons in memory of the 6 million - opinion

And so, at this critical historical moment we must ask ourselves: What have we learned in the last 80 years – and more importantly, what must we do?

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Naqrachi, a Moroccan woman who is president of the Amal Arab Group for the Elimination of Child Marriage (AAGEEM) and of the Nour Foundation for Solidarity with Rural Women (ANSFR), sounded deeply moved while speaking with The Media Line from Auschwitz.

She arrived in Poland on Wednesday to take part in the annual International March of the Living along with Arab participants from Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, and other countries, as part of a delegation that was organized by Sharaka (“Partnership”), an Israeli-Emirati NGO established in 2020 to promote dialogue between Israel and the Arab world.
Almost a hundred Arab youth from Israel also took part in the March of the Living this year.
‘Just another Jewish hoax’

Until very recently talking about the Holocaust was practically taboo in the Arab-speaking world, where Shoah denial is still common. Sitcoms about the “fake Holocaust” have been hits in Egypt and Gulf countries, hundreds of books that denied the Nazi genocide were and still are sold in bookshops across the Arab world. In 2009, a quarter of Israeli Arab citizens denied the Holocaust, according to a survey carried out by the University of Haifa.

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An Arab and a Jew during March of the Living
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“The Arabs in Israel are first exposed to the Holocaust in high school; it is a part of the curriculum. But it is not presented as a significant historical event, one of the cruelest and most awful in history. It seems that those who wrote this curriculum just wanted to be done with it, to check off a box,” he said.

“It also seems that they were afraid to evoke emotion and empathy among the Arab students, fearing that someday –without making comparisons and parallels – these students will also demand some empathy and solidarity with their pain,” Banna said.

The situation in the Palestinian Authority is even worse since the textbooks do not include any mention of the Holocaust. However, in social networks, the word is often used in the context of denial or fake news.
Despite the positive changes taking place in some Arab countries today, Israel, the Yad Vashem memorial, and other organizations still have a lot of work to do to explain, show and teach the Holocaust, not far from home, but in Israel, and in the PA.

Holocaust denial still common in the Arab world but views are changing

Analysis: Arabs in Israel are first exposed to the Holocaust in high school, but it is not presented as a significant event; however, situation appears to have changed in recent years, following signing of Abraham Accords

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Israel will serve as President of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) for 2025, a year marking 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and the end of the Second World War.

“The State of Israel, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Yad Vashem are committed to preserving the memory of the Holocaust and to the fight against antisemitism,” Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said on Thursday. “As the son of a Holocaust survivor, I see it as a personal privilege and duty to continue the preservation of the memory of the Holocaust and the constant fight against antisemitism wherever it rears its head.”

Israel was unanimously elected to the body’s presidency at IHRA’s annual plenary session in Stockholm, Sweden.

The country elected as President hosts the IHRA plenary meetings up to twice a year. The plenary is the official decision-making body of the IHRA, made up of member country delegation heads, and is responsible for adopting recommendations and decisions made by IHRA experts.

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Israel Elected to Lead International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance in 2025

Part of an exhibit on the Holocaust supported by the International Holocaust Remembrance Association. Photo: courtesy of IHRA. Israel will …

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As We Commemorate Holocaust Remembrance, Let’s Remember the Memory Workers

The term 'memory worker' is not one you are likely to know, but memory workers are all around you. They are voluntary representatives of those victimized by violence or persecution.

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Teachers, scientists, college professors, doctors all rounded up and put in cattle cars destined for execution in incineration. How could that happen in the middle of the 20th century? How can mostly left wingers deny it?

 

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This photo of Reuven and Gershon Fogel, the two boys in the foreground on the left, captures some of the last moments of their lives. As they waited in the woods, they seemed unaware that their next steps would take them to a gas chamber at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Decades later, Holocaust survivor Irene (Fogel) Weiss discovered her younger brothers in the photo and, with the help of a magnifying glass, identified her mother, Leah Mermelstein Fogel, seated beside them.

The image was part of the Auschwitz Album, a collection of photos taken by a Nazi photographer documenting the arrival of Jews from Hungary in the spring of 1944. A former Auschwitz prisoner, Lilly Jacob, found the album in a nightstand while she was recovering in an abandoned SS barracks at another camp, called Dora-Mittelbau, shortly after her liberation there.

For Irene, the album confirmed all of her worst memories.
"All this time, I began to feel it was some kind of nightmare," she said. The album “literally verified my experience."
The day this photo was taken was the last that Irene experienced with her family intact. Of her family of six, only Irene and her older sister, Serena, survived.

Tomorrow on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, join us live on Facebook at 9:30 a.m. ET to hear from Irene and to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust.

Photo: USHMM, courtesy of Yad Vashem.

 

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So, the Russians, the actual liberators of Auschwitz, are banned by Poland to be part of the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp while the ukrainian fascists, Banderites, who were directly aiding the nazis with the Holocaust and the camps are guests of honor...

 

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A Day—or Two—to Remember the Holocaust

Two different models for commemorating the past

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So, the Russians, the actual liberators of Auschwitz, are banned by Poland to be part of the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp while the ukrainian fascists, Banderites, who were directly aiding the nazis with the Holocaust and the camps are guests of honor...

I am sure that there are some Russians today who would be worthy of being invited to take part of the Remembrance, but I really cannot think of one right now. Neither could Poland .

 

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Joseph's Coat of Many Colors

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I write on International Holocaust Remembrance Day – marking the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most brutal extermination camp of the 20th century – about remembrance, and a reminder of horrors too terrible to be believed but not too terrible to have happened.


I write also in the aftermath of the oft-ignored, if it is even known at all, 81st anniversary of the Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942, convened by the Nazi leadership to address “The Final Solution to the Jewish Question” – the blueprint for the annihilation of European Jewry – which was met by the indifference and inaction of the international bystander community.


We are on the eve also of the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, begun on April 19, 1943 – the most courageous civilian uprising in all of the Holocaust. There is a straight line between Wannsee and Warsaw; between the indifference of one and the courage of the other.

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Int'l Holocaust Remembrance Day: 10 universal lessons - opinion

At this important inflection historical moment, we should ask ourselves: What have we learned in the last 78 years – and more importantly – what must we do?

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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the U.N. Hears of a Little-Known Killing Field

At the United Nations’ annual ceremony to mark the Nazi horrors, Karen Frostig described her work to commemorate a concentration camp where thousands of Jews, including her grandparents, were murdered.

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Holocaust Remembrance Day around the world

78 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the world is gathering a little closer on Jan. 27, 2023, to honor those lost in the horrors of the World War II Holocaust. Millions of Jews and other ethnic minority groups perished during the Holocaust by the hands of the Nazis...

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55 Powerful Holocaust Remembrance Day Quotes

May we never, ever forget.

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