Tag: Holocaust

• Tuesday, February 20th 2024 - 15:18 UTC

  Lula, “persona non grata” in Israel

  

  The government of Israel has declared Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva “persona non grata” for likening the ongoing military deployment in the Gaza Strip to the genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II, Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced Monday. The South American leader “will not be welcome in Israel until he recants.”

• Friday, January 28th 2022 - 09:25 UTC

  Holocaust Remembrance Day observed with grief worldwide

  

  Israel's Parliament (Knesset) Speaker Mickey Levy Thursday broke out in tears as he recited prayers of mourning before the German Bundestag in the most touching event marking the 2022 Shoah (Holocaust) Remembrance Day.

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Ambassadors gather at Buenos Aires' Holocaust Museum to remembers victims

  

  Ambassadors from 14 countries in Buenos Aires paid a tribute to the victims of Shoah, the Jewish Holocaust at the hands of the Third Reich in the 1930s and 1940s during a ceremony at the Museum in Buenos Aires Monday remembered the Holocaust

• Friday, January 21st 2022 - 20:40 UTC

  Mexican college teacher fired for anti semitic “joke”

  

  A Mexican teacher has been sacked after an antisemitic remark during a virtual class which resulted in most embarrassing for her students: “What's the difference between a pizza and a Jew?”, she asked.

• Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  UN General Assembly, except Iran, adopts resolution condemning any denial of the Holocaust

  

  On the month of Holocaust Remembrance Day, United Nations General Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution rejecting and condemning any denial of the Holocaust following on a joint proposal from Israel and Germany.

• Thursday, May 21st 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Controversy in Argentina over a new bank bill with the image of a brilliant doctor with Nazi connections

  

  Argentina's Jewish community has expressed outrage at the decision to print a banknote bearing the likeness of a doctor who expressed support for Nazi ideology and even backed Josef Mengele's experiments on Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz.

• Thursday, July 18th 2019 - 08:46 UTC

  A unique monument pays tribute to the victims of the AMIA bombing

  

  By Eduardo Eurnekia - On July 18, 1994, the center of Buenos Aires, the bustling capital of Argentina, was shattered by a huge explosion. A suicide bomber drove his explosives-loaded van into the building of the Jewish Community (AMIA-Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina), killing 85 people and injuring hundreds.

• Monday, April 15th 2019 - 09:33 UTC

  Brazilian president Bolsonaro clarifies his remarks on the Holocaust

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has clarified remarks he made on Friday about the Holocaust which were vehemently condemned by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center and Israel's President Reuven Rivlin.

• Tuesday, March 5th 2019 - 09:32 UTC

  Pope Francis will open Vatican archives on Pius XII and the Holocaust

  

  Pope Francis has said the Roman Catholic Church will open up its archives on Pius XII, who was Pope during World War Two. Pius, who was Pope from 1939 to 1958, has been accused of tolerating the rise of Nazi Germany and of not doing enough to protect Jews during the Holocaust. The Vatican says he worked behind the scenes to try to protect Jews.

• Monday, November 5th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Soccer and the Holocaust exhibit in Argentina awarded German football tolerance prize

  

  The German soccer federation is giving an award for tolerance for an Argentine exhibition of harrowing stories about soccer from the Holocaust era. The 11-panel exhibit — one for each soccer player on the field — tells the stories of teams and sportsmen who suffered under the Nazis.