Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Remembering the Shoah (the Holocaust)

Today is the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest, and probably the most notorious of the Nazi death camps. In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated this day as International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD), an annual day of commemoration to honor the victims of the Nazi era. Every member nation of the U.N. has an obligation to honor the memory of Holocaust victims and develop educational programs as part of an international resolve to help prevent future acts of genocide. The U.N. resolution that created IHRD rejects denial of the Holocaust, and condemns discrimination and violence based on religion or ethnicity.

Accordingly, today's blog posting is dedicated to the commemoration of the Shoah.

1. Remembering the Holocaust accurately

2. Pieronek: Jews use tragedy of Holocaust as propaganda Jewish News Jerusalem Post

3. Former PM of Malaysia: Jews "had to be periodically massacred" - Jihad Watch

4. Auschwitz to Treblinka, Gaston students reproduce Nazi camps to learn of horrors | students, gaston, nazi - Local News - Gaston Gazette

6. CBC News - Montreal - Montreal Holocaust survivors remember Auschwitz

8. Holocaust Remembrance Day: Israeli President Asks Germany to Pursue Holocaust Perpetrators - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

9. Special Program Teaches Arab Youths about Holocaust - Inside Israel - Israel News - Israel National News

10. “Righteous Persons”

11. Arab MK slams Holocaust denial, wins praise from Jewish colleagues - Haaretz - Israel News

12. OP-ED: UN'S Holocaust Remembrance Day-Insincere

13. PHAS-Holocaust Inversion: The Portraying of Israel and Jews as Nazis

14. The Tragedy of the S.S. St. Louis - if you can, please check out the amazing St. Louis exhibit at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic

15. Holocaust survivors' stories | World news | The Guardian

16. Tragic Pictures

17. 19 km from Auschwitz. The Story of Trzebinia

18. Important Books & Movies (just a sample)

2 comments:

AnonymousJanuary 28, 2010 at 12:05 PM
Righteous Persons segment does not link up, error message appears instead
AnonymousJanuary 28, 2010 at 12:22 PM
When trying to link to the story on the S.S. St. Louis the prompt comes up with Object not found....

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