Tag: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
How not to remember the Holocaust
While Israel and Jewish communities commemorate the Holocaust with a Yom Hashoah on the 27th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan (which this year falls on May 2), the rest of the world...
World Jewish Congress partners with NATO to raise Holocaust awareness
Tens of thousands of photographs taken by during in the World Jewish Congress’s #WeRemember campaign to evoke awareness about the atrocities of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism will be screened on Thursday and Friday—days before International Holocaust...
Spare us your Holocaust hypocrisy
Last Saturday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The problem is that so many of the mournful and resolute speeches and statements uttered by international leaders on Jan. 27 are so laden with hypocrisy that...
World remembers Holocaust amid signs of rising hatred
WARSAW, POLAND — Elderly survivors were gathering Saturday at the former Auschwitz death camp and political leaders warned that the Nazi genocide must continue to serve as a warning as the world marked International Holocaust...
Rex Tillerson pays respects on Holocaust Remembrance Day at Poland monument Trump failed to...
WARSAW - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson commemorated Jews who rose up against the Nazis during a trip to Poland Saturday — something President Trump failed to do when he visited the country.
“One of...
Lauder thanks Trump for critical message on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
NEW YORK - World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has praised US President Donald Trump’s “poignant and respectful” tribute to the six million Jews who were murdered at the hands of the Nazis...
Never forget human tragedy of the Holocaust
In Liberty State Park, there stands a 15-foot high bronze statue of a World War II soldier carrying a body. That limp body being cradled in the arm of the soldier is not that...