The German foreign minister will sign a new agreement in Jerusalem securing the long-term financing of the Holocaust remembrance center.
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The event, which was organized by a conservative Dutch politician, was moved to a church.
Holocaust survivor’s touching story inspires letter of thanks.
The center, which was created with reparations money over Norway’s complicity, plans to host a scholar who decried Western concern for Israel’s security.
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, public life across the country comes to a halt—while the number of survivors continues to decline.
Behind these stark statistics stands a generation that is steadily disappearing, and with it the last direct witnesses of the Shoah.
Survivors warn that rising global antisemitism echoes lessons the world still struggles to learn.
Remembrance as responsibility: What this means today.
International Holocaust Memorial Day cannot be uncomplicatedly marked in the way that it is intended: as a commemoration of the Nazi slaughter of 6 million Jews for the sole reason that they were Jews.
“I believe that the Nobel committee should take a stand on antisemitism,” Norwegian lawmaker Joel Ystebø tells JNS.
