The President of CRIF, the representative umbrella group of Jewish institutions in France has denounced a new resolution on Jerusalem to be presented Thursday for a vote at the Executive Committee of UNESCO, the Paris-based UN body in charge of education and culture, in a letter to French President François Hollande.
The role of Holocaust education in a country where almost 1 million Jews were slaughtered is a complicated thing when the country in question is in the throes of shaping a fresh national identity and national memory for itself from very raw emotional material; even more so when it’s locked at the same time in a simmering military conflict against Russia, one of its former occupiers along with Nazi Germany during World War II.
Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine, USC Shoah Foundation has published a new IWitness activity about Babi Yar and has begun leading a brand-new IWalk at the historic site in Kyiv.
The City of Paris inaugurated this week a Simon and Cyla Wiesenthal Square, to the memory of Simon Wiesenthal (1908-2005) who devoted his life to bringing Nazi war criminals to justice and his spouse, Cyla.
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) will be holding talks with top government officials from more than 30 different countries gathered in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
According to Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria, AfD, along with other far-right parties, constituted a threat to Germany’s democratic foundations.
