Participants in the program, typically high school students, walk the 3-kilometer path from Auschwitz to Birkenau on Holocaust Remembrance Day before touring the Nazi death factory.
“Our partnership with EJC will facilitate ADL’s involvement in helping provide a safer environment for European Jews,” said ADL national director Jonathan Greenblatt.
As Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani is visiting France, the country’s s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei questioned whether the Holocaust is “reality or not,” coinciding with International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
At Israel's embassy, Obama offers a deeper, less political, truly gallant explanation of the imperative democracies prescribe to protect Jewish peoples worldwide.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has expressed disappointment at a statement by UNs Secretary General Ban Ki-moon which appeared to justify the current wave of Palestinian terror as “human nature.”
‘’It pains me that Jews again live in fear in >Europe today, are not safe to go to a synagogue or a Jewish school and that some condider leaving Europe for good because they feel not safe,’’ said European Parliament President Martin Schulz as he addressed Wednesday a ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the European institution.
The timing of the visit in France of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani - he was due to arrive in Paris Wednesday which coincides with commemorations of International Holocaust Remembrance Day – has angered the Jewish community of France.
France "will put all its strength to protect the Jews’’, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said at a ceremony in the Paris City Hall to mark the 20th anniversary of the asassination of the Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin.
