Tag: Holocaust
This is how Holocaust Remembrance Day was celebrated in Västerås
In connection with Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January, demonstrations, seminars and school projects are arranged around Sweden. In Västerås, a ceremony was held in the cathedral on Saturday with…
International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust
Today is the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust, the same day that the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp was liberated in 1945. Around six million Jews and…
in a context of war, can we contrast suffering?
The organization Jewish Claims Conference, composed of numerous Jewish associations, which has been fighting since the 1950s for compensation for victims of the Shoah, recently published figures on the survivors…
In Jerusalem, October 7 revived the nightmare of Holocaust survivors – L’Express
His voice, sometimes, trembles under the weight of the years. His energy remains intact. At 91 years old, Berthe Badehi is camped, standing, at the entrance to Yad Vashem, the…
The word Holocaust returned to Jewish everyday life, and an Israeli psychologist now explains why
TEL AVIV The terrorist attacks by the extremist organization Hamas in October stopped Israelis’ everyday life and caused collective grief. A significant number of Israelis know someone who was brutally…
Hamas: in the face of anti-Semitism, the precious words of Holocaust survivors – L’Express
Nearly 80 years later, Ginette Kolinka still remembers the weather on March 13, 1944. “It was a spring day, the first rays of the sun warmed our skin. It was…
On the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilnius ghetto, Lithuania wants more recognition
Lithuania commemorates the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilnius ghetto on Friday September 22. During the period of Nazi occupation, from 1941 to 1944, the majority of the…
A first “pavement of memory” in Paris, in tribute to a woman victim of Nazism
On May 8, the anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. Report from Paris on a memorial stone. A few days ago a Stolpersteine, in other words a…
They are looking for stories and objects from the Holocaust
In June, Sweden’s Holocaust museum opens the first exhibition in the premises on Torsgatan in Stockholm. Right now the staff is on a fundraising tour and on Saturday they visited…
Antoine Ozanam and Marco Venanzi, on the trail of the lost children of the Holocaust
During the Second World War many Jewish children were entrusted to foster families in order to save them from the ignominy of the Holocaust. Based on historical facts, Antoine Ozanam…