Etiket: Holocaust
Holocaust survivor | The tailor of American presidents Martin Greenfield is no more
(New York) Survivor of the Shoah and become the tailor of presidents and stars in the United States, Martin Greenfield died Wednesday at the age of 95, announced the New…
Montreal | Protesters oppose the arrival of Israeli soldiers at the Holocaust museum
Several dozen demonstrators in support of the Palestinian cause gathered Monday evening in front of the Holocaust Museum in Montreal to oppose the holding of a conference by Israeli soldiers.…
Pro-Palestine demonstration | Protesters oppose the arrival of Israeli soldiers at the Holocaust museum
Several dozen demonstrators in support of the Palestinian cause gathered Monday evening in front of the Holocaust Museum in Montreal to oppose the holding of a conference by Israeli soldiers.…
Can we (still) eat popcorn in front of the Holocaust?
We went, with friends, one Tuesday evening, after dinner, to a small local cinema with around forty seats to watch The area of interest, by Jonathan Glazer. This film, in…
Commemoration of the Holocaust | Deborah Lyons deplores the rise of anti-Semitism in Canada since the war in Gaza
(Ottawa) The Canadian special envoy for preserving the memory of the Holocaust and the fight against anti-Semitism maintains that the International Day dedicated to the memory of the victims of…
Liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp | Holocaust survivors commemorate 79th anniversary
(Auschwitz) A group of survivors of the Nazi extermination camps marked the 79e anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during World War II, during a modest ceremony Saturday…
About 245,000 Holocaust survivors still alive, study finds
(Berlin) Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, there are around 245,000 Holocaust survivors alive in more than 90 countries, according to a new demographic study released…
New Montreal Holocaust Museum | Start of construction work
Construction work on the new Montreal Holocaust Museum began on Tuesday, La Presse Canadienne learned first. Posted at 7:05 a.m. Jean-Benoit Legault The Canadian Press Work is expected to continue…
Jewish organizations call for the criminalization of Holocaust denial
Canadian Jewish organizations are calling on the Liberal government to remove obstacles to the application of a relatively new provision of the Criminal Code against Holocaust denial, in a context…
Jewish organizations call for the entry of Holocaust denial into the Criminal Code
(Ottawa) Canadian Jewish organizations are calling on the Liberal government to remove obstacles to the application of a relatively new provision of the Criminal Code against Holocaust denial, in a…
Holocaust survivors meet young people to prevent “history from stuttering”
Young people from the scout organization Hashomer Hatzaïr met five survivors of concentration camps, while anti-Semitic acts have increased since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7. Five concentration…
in Ashkelon, volunteers come to the aid of Holocaust survivors
Welcome World Middle East War between Hamas and Israel Published on 11/17/2023 9:54 p.m. Video duration: 1 minute War between Israel and Hamas: in Ashkelon, volunteers come to the aid…
Roman Polanski revisits his childhood, marked by the Holocaust, in a documentary boycotted in theaters
The directors, Mateusz Kudla and Anna Kokoszka-Romer, asked him to talk about his childhood spent in Poland in Krakow, on the occasion of his visit to the country. Reduced to…
Starring Roman Polanski | Holocaust documentary struggles to hit theaters
Sorry, your browser does not support videos (Paris) The distributor of a Polish documentary on the childhood of American photographer Ryszard Horowitz and director Roman Polanski is alarmed by the…
Teaching about the Holocaust at school | A Jewish organization urges Quebec to act
(Quebec) The defense group of the Jewish community B’nai Brith asks Quebec to better teach the history of the Holocaust at school and denounces an event in a high school…
Denying the Holocaust is normal in Muslim countries
April 18 was Holocaust Remembrance Day. The murder of six million Jews during the Second World War constitutes one of the most terrible genocides in history. I had the chance…
The new Montreal Holocaust Museum aims for 100,000 visitors per year
“We were living in peace when war was declared in 1939. I was evacuated with my school to a small town in the south-east of France, not far from Paris.…
Holocaust | Last of Nuremberg trial prosecutors dies aged 103
(Washington) The American Benjamin Ferencz, who was the last of the prosecutors of the Nuremberg trials, died at the age of 103 after a life dedicated to international justice, his…
the United Arab Emirates now teaches the Holocaust in schools
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the United Arab Emirates now teaches the Holocaust in schools
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