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International Holocaust Memorial Day that was marked on January 27 included a unique event in Pennsylvania that brought together IDF officers and members of the US military. The event was the brainchild of Lt.-Col. Shai Schul, Israel’s Security Assistance Liaison Officer to the US Army, and was why he was in Pennsylvania at the time […]
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Over 25,000 tune in to EJA Holocaust Memorial Day Event
January 29th, 2021 
Awake Goy Heads of state, parliamentarians, Jewish leaders, and hundreds of participants from all over Europe and from as far as Mexico and the United States took part in one of the largest online memorial events in commemoration of International Holocaust Memorial Day yesterday, organized by the European Jewish Association (EJA).Speakers included the President of the European […]
European Jewish Association marks Int’l Holocaust Memorial Day online
January 27th, 2021 Awake Goy The European Jewish Association, a Brussels-based Jewish advocacy NGO, is holding a large online gathering to mark International Holocaust Memorial Day on Wednesday, January 27. The online event, which is open to the public, is being streamed by The Jerusalem Post and on the EJA’s Facebook page. The commemoration will begin at 2 p.m. CET […]
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No Comments »Holocaust memorial day: thousands of names being projected onto the French Embassy in Berlin
January 27th, 2021 Awake Goy A new memorial project in Berlin, supported by Germany’s culture commission and the French Embassy hopes to pave the way for remembrance culture in the digital age. Thousands of names are currently being projected onto the Embassy’s facade, a symbol itself of the post-war Franco-German friendship after so many decades of enmity. Monika Grütters is […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: being, french, Holocaust, memorial, names, projected, thousands No Comments »Holocaust Memorial Day: Plans unveiled for vast memorial complex at Ukraine’s Babyn Yar
January 27th, 2021 Awake Goy Ukraine has marked Holocaust Memorial Day by confirming its plans for a memorial centre on the site of one of the worst massacres of Jews during the Second World War. Nearly 34,000 people were murdered by Nazi German forces and local collaborators over two days in September 1941 at Babyn Yar, a site on the […]
Top Italian Soccer Club to Hold Memorial for Trophy-Winning Coach Who Perished in Auschwitz on Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 27th, 2021 Awake Goy Players from Italian Bologna FC after going 1-0 up against Serie A rivals Hellas Verona on Jan 16, 2021. Photo: Reuters/IPA/Sipa USA. One of Italy’s most celebrated soccer clubs will host a memorial on Wednesday for a former championship-winning coach who perished in Auschwitz during World War II, in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. […]
Posted in Uncategorized Tags: coach, italian, memorial, perished, soccer, trophy, winning No Comments »Ukrainian president approves Babyn Yar memorial concept
January 26th, 2021 Awake Goy The physical and ideological concept for the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (BYHMC) have been unveiled for the first time, and constitute a massive and ambitious project to educate on and commemorate the Nazi’s mass murder of Jews outside Kiev and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe more generally. The plans have now been given approval […]
European Jewish Association to mark Int’l Holocaust Memorial Day online
January 25th, 2021 Awake Goy The European Jewish Association, a Brussels-based Jewish advocacy NGO, will be holding a large online gathering to mark International Holocaust Memorial Day on Wednesday, January 27. The online event, which is open to the public, will be streamed live by The Jerusalem Post and on the EJA’s Facebook page. The commemoration will begin at 2 […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: association, european, Holocaust, Jewish, memorial, online No Comments »Jewish orgs. hold memorial marking end of Sheldon Adelson’s shiva
January 24th, 2021 Awake Goy Over 30 Jewish organizations gathered together to hold an online memorial event on Thursday to mark the end of the Jewish shiva mourning period for Jewish-American philanthropist Sheldon Adelson. The event, organized by multiple organizations including the Israeli-American Council (IAC), consisted of numerous livestreamed eulogies and personal stories about Adelson, as well as small groups […]
Speaker for Dutch Holocaust memorial after uproar over antisemitic comment
January 23rd, 2021 Awake Goy AMSTERDAM – Amid protest by prominent Dutch Holocaust survivors, an author who called Gaza “a ghetto” and said he feels uncomfortable around Jews has stepped down as keynote speaker of the national ceremony commemorating victims of the genocide. In a statement published Thursday on the website of the National 4 and 5 May Committee, Dutch-Moroccan […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: after, antisemitic, dutch, Holocaust, memorial, speaker, uproar No Comments »A Holocaust Memorial Centre at Babyn Yar
January 22nd, 2021 Awake Goy Browse > Home / News / A Holocaust Memorial Centre at Babyn Yar January 22, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk Read on for article Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Centre (BYHMC) unveiled its plans for constructing one of the world’s largest Holocaust memorial centres. The existing Sefirot installation is made […]
Nazi collaborators included in Ukrainian memorial project
January 22nd, 2021 Awake Goy A project of the Ukrainian Institute for National Memory memorializing Ukrainian national figures includes senior officials in Ukrainian auxiliary police units that collaborated with the Nazis and carried out atrocities against local populations, including Jews, during the Holocaust. The project also memorializes controversial Ukrainian nationalists also accused of responsibility for the murder of Jews during […]
Massive Holocaust Memorial Center to Be Built at Site of Babyn Yar Massacre in Ukraine, Where Over 30,000 Jews Were Killed
January 22nd, 2021 Awake Goy The Sefirot installation at the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, made up of 10 stainless steel columns, which feature over 100,000 holes, shot with bullets of the same caliber as those used by the Nazis to murder 100,000 Jews and non-Jews at Babyn Yar, Ukraine. Photo: Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. One of the largest […]
Joe Biden Begins Inauguration Events with Coronavirus Deaths Memorial
January 20th, 2021 Awake Goy President-elect Joe Biden began the series of events for his Inauguration with a memorial ceremony on Tuesday for the 400,000 deaths from the Chinese coronavirus. “To heal we must remember, and it’s hard sometimes to remember, but that’s how we heal,” Biden said after taking the podium in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Biden only […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: begins, biden, coronavirus, deaths, events, inauguration, memorial No Comments »Biden and Harris lead Lincoln Memorial vigil for Covid victims as US death toll passes 400,000
January 20th, 2021 Awake Goy During a Covid memorial service in Washington DC on Tuesday, President-elect Joe Biden and vice-president elect Kamala Harris offered their condolences to a weary nation. “To heal we must remember,” Mr Biden said. “It’s hard sometimes to remember, but that’s how we heal. It’s important to do that as a nation. That’s why we’re here […]
First-Ever Memorial Held in Silwan for Jew Slain in 1939 Arab Riots
January 6th, 2021 Awake Goy The Silwan village. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. JNS.org – The first-ever memorial day for Shlomo Madmoni was held on Monday in the village of Shiloah (Silwan) in eastern Jerusalem, also known as the Yemenite village. The event, initiated by the Shiloah public council, was attended by Israel’s Regional Cooperation Minister Ofir Akunis. Madmoni was murdered in […]
President Trump’s diplomat prepares for Holocaust Memorial Council
January 5th, 2021 Awake Goy Richard Grenell went from being US ambassador to Germany to serving as acting head of national intelligence and has now been nominated to sit on the Holocaust Memorial Council. Ambassador Grenell spoke with The Media Line’s Felice Friedson about calling-out Iran-backed Hezbollah as a terrorist organization; the underutilization of US embassies; sitting down with antisemites […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: council, diplomat, Holocaust, memorial, prepares, president, Trump No Comments »Grenell Prepares for Holocaust Memorial Council
January 5th, 2021 Awake Goy The Media Line — Richard Grenell went from being US ambassador to Germany to serving as acting head of national intelligence and has now been nominated to sit on the Holocaust Memorial Council. Ambassador Grenell spoke with The Media Line’s Felice Friedson about calling-out Iran-backed Hizbullah as a terrorist organization; the underutilization of US embassies; […]
Bulgarian synagogue and Halle memorial targeted in spate of crimes on Jewish sites in Europe
December 27th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Posted in Jewish News Tags: bulgarian, Crimes, halle, memorial, spate, synagogue, targeted No Comments »Bulgarian synagogue and Halle memorial targeted by antisemitic vandals
December 25th, 2020 Awake Goy Vandals struck a synagogue gate in Bulgaria and a monument to the victims of the shooting attack last year near a synagogue in Halle, Germany, in a spate of unrelated incidents this week in Europe. In Bulgaria, the words “Free Palestine Israel=Nazis Antifa Bulgaria” were spray-painted Wednesday on the gate to the synagogue of Plovdiv, […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: antisemitic, bulgarian, halle, memorial, synagogue, targeted, vandals No Comments »Rio’s mayor arrested weeks after inaugurating Holocaust memorial
December 24th, 2020 Awake Goy This Brazilian city’s outgoing mayor, a staunch backer of Israel and the local Jewish community, was arrested Tuesday on corruption allegations less than two weeks after helping inaugurate a Holocaust memorial in Rio. Marcelo Crivella, 63, was granted home arrest for being part of a risk group for COVID-19. Crivella, who laid the memorial cornerstone […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: after, arrested, Holocaust, inaugurating, mayor, memorial, weeks No Comments »American Jews praise Grenell appointment to Holocaust Memorial Council
December 24th, 2020 Awake Goy President Donald Trump on Tuesday appointed former acting director of US national intelligence Richard Grenell to serve as a member of the Holocaust Memorial Council in Washington D.C.Prominent American Jewish leaders and Jews praised the appointment of Grenell, who also served as ambassador to Germany.“No US Ambassador posted to Berlin in recent history has done […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: american, appointment, council, grenell, Holocaust, memorial, praise No Comments »Trump appoints controversial loyalist Grenell to Holocaust Memorial Council
December 23rd, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Posted in Jewish News Tags: appoints, controversial, grenell, Holocaust, loyalist, memorial, Trump No Comments »Rio inaugurates long-awaited Holocaust memorial with 72-foot-tall tower
December 15th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Anne Frank memorial in Idaho vandalized with swastika stickers
December 12th, 2020 Awake Goy JTA — A statue of Anne Frank in Boise, Idaho, was vandalized with stickers bearing swastikas and the message “We are everywhere.” The Boise Police Department found and removed nine of the stickers from the Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial, according to KTVB, a local station. One of the stickers was placed over the diary […]
Anne Frank memorial in Boise, Idaho, vandalized with swastika stickers
December 11th, 2020 Awake Goy A statue of Anne Frank in Boise, Idaho, was vandalized with stickers bearing swastikas and the message “We are everywhere.” The Boise Police Department found and removed nine of the stickers from the Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial, according to KTVB, a local station. One of the stickers was placed over the diary held by […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: boise, frank, Idaho, memorial, stickers, swastika, vandalized No Comments »US Holocaust Memorial, Iranian website launch Holocaust education project
December 4th, 2020 Awake Goy The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and IranWire.com, one of the most popular Persian language news websites inside and outside of Iran, launched on Tuesday ‘The Sardari Project: Iran and the Holocaust‘ that will broadcast articles and videos about the Holocaust, and Iran’s unknown role in helping Jews during this period. The project was named […]
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Fraud
November 2nd, 2020 Awake Goy U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Fraud USHMM displays standard German air-raid shelter door, describing it as the door to a gas chamber at Majdanek By David Thomas Published: 1997-07-12 A standard air-raid shelter door is displayed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum along with the claim that it is a casting of the door to a […]
Ocasio-Cortez withdraws from Rabin memorial event after backlash
September 26th, 2020 Awake Goy Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday withdrew her participation from an event commemorating former prime minster Yitzhak Rabin on the 25th anniversary of his assassination. The decision, which came after backlash from pro-Palestinian activists, was confirmed to The Times of Israel by a spokeswoman for the congresswoman, a rising star in the progressive wing of […]
AOC reconsiders participation at Rabin memorial after BDS backlash
September 26th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
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