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Germany to pay additional $300M for Shoah restitution to Israel

“Germany has agreed to provide restitution payments to an additional 80,000 Jews, following negotiations on Monday between Claims Conference representatives and German officials in Washington. The agreement is likely to result in additional payments of approximately $300 million, most of which will go to Nazi victims in the former Soviet Union who have never received payments or compensation from previous German restitution agreements.”

English Euro 2012 football team to visit Auschwitz

“England’s European Championship squad will visit the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau while in Poland next month and will use the experience to educate youngsters about the danger of prejudice. The players will visit the death camp near their Euro 2012 training base in Krakow soon after their arrival on June 6, the English Football Association said Tuesday.”

Israeli F15s fly over Auschwitz on Yom HaShoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Israelis and members of the Jewish diaspora march on Auschwitz to remember the heroes and martyrs of the Shoah in the annual March of the Living held on Yom HaShoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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yumuseum:

SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND

Dreidles such as this were common in Europe and America, and were often home made.  This one was found, buried in a yard.  Although one’s mind jumps immediately to the Holocaust, a small, inexpensive item such as this could easily have been lost long before that time.

Hanukkah top (dreidle), lead, Poland, late 19th/early 20th century, Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, Gift of Gordon David and Renee Tawa in honor of Helen and Charles Gordon

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matthiolabicornis:

Synagogue in Tykocin (Poland)

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ANTI-racism groups are outraged after Polish soccer fans waved a “Jihad” banner at an Israeli team.

Anti-racism groups have called on European football’s governing body UEFA to punish Polish club Legia Warsaw after fans brandished a “Jihad” banner during a Europa League match against Israeli side Hapoel Tel Aviv.

“This is yet another case of anti-Semitic behaviour by extremist groups active in Polish football stadiums, and it could have been predicted,” said Rafal Pankowski of the campaign group Never Again.

At the start of Thursday night’s Group C home game in Warsaw - which Legia won 3-2 - a group of fans unfurled a huge banner stretching across three blocks of a stand.

Written in Arabic-style letters, it read “Jihad Legia”. The banner was green, which is one of Legia’s colours but also that of Islamist groups.

“Some Legia fans have been known for anti-Semitic and extreme-right behaviour for years and they had a chance to express their hatred of Jews again when Legia played an Israeli team, this time adopting a pseudo-Islamist guise,” added Mr Pankowski, who runs the UEFA-backed Football Against Racism in Europe network.

Miroslaw Starczewski, deputy head of security at Poland’s PZPN football association, said Legia could be hit hard by UEFA.

“Legia should pay the price for this,” Mr Starczewski told the daily Gazeta Wyborcza.

“A fine is the most likely penalty. And UEFA may even ban Legia fans from the second leg in Tel Aviv.”

Legia’s away game in the Israeli city is scheduled for December 15.

Under its disciplinary rules, UEFA could levy a fine of up to a million euros ($1.4 million).

The club’s spokesman Michal Kocieba said Legia were investigating.

“We certainly didn’t approve the display of this banner,” he said.

Stadium racism and hooliganism are in sharp focus in Poland ahead of the 2012 European Championships, which the country will host along with neighbouring Ukraine.

“It can be expected that UEFA will take this case seriously, in light of its efforts to tackle racism and anti-Semitism in Euro 2012 host countries,” said Mr Pankowski.

Far-right and anti-Semitic banners and slogans are notably shocking given Poland’s World War II history, when millions perished at the hands of occupying Nazi Germany, including the overwhelming majority of Europe’s Jews.

via: news.com.au

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yoavbentzruya:

Netanyahu is scheduled to go to Romania and Bulgaria in two weeks, and then to Poland and Hungary. These countries are considered to be among Israel’s strongest supporters in Europe, and the prime minister’s visits are aimed at strengthening and reinforcing these relationships.

It’s kind of eerie stepping on those tracks knowing what had happened years before. I knew I broke down crying when I stepped on those same tracks two years ago, carrying an Israeli flag while the IAF flew over.

Am Israel Chai!

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 ✡ NEVER FORGET. ✡

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dawn1331:

Portrait of Sister Tekla Budnowska who during the German occupation of Poland, hid Jewish children in her convent school in Lomna.

1946

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What would happen if you invited famous politicians and celebrities to your bar mitzvah?

These are so awesome and I am definitely surprised by all of the responses.