Tag: Holocaust
Utrecht University of Applied Sciences and CIDI are only moving the first lesson of the series of Holocaust lectures
The municipality said in a response today that many organizations in Utrecht are struggling with issues related to the war after the outbreak of the war in Gaza. “That leads…
Minister Dijkgraaf on postponed HU Holocaust lectures: ‘Education, even when it is difficult’
The minister is responding to the decision of Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (HU) today to postpone a series of lectures on the persecution of Jews and genocide by the…
CIDI baffled by Utrecht University of Applied Sciences’ decision to cancel Holocaust lectures
The CIDI has nothing against this, on the contrary, says Pennewaard. “If the university wants to organize something about the Palestinian conflict, there must be room for that,” she says.…
NMR broke in during demonstration for Holocaust victims
The demonstration where the victims of the Holocaust were to be honored in PA Hall’s terrace in Borås received unwelcome visitors. Six members of the Nordic Resistance Movement broke into…
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…