European Jewish Congress- Newsletter 8-10 January 2020
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NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES
GERMANY 
GERMANY OPENS OFFICIAL HELP DESK FOR THOSE SEEKING TO RECLAIM NAZI-LOOTED ART Germany has launched a specialised office to help people reclaim art and other cultural assets seized by the Nazis during WWII.
Friday, January 10, 2020
Read moreTWO VIOLENT ANTISEMITIC ASSAULTS UNDER INVESTIGATION IN BERLIN An unknown assailant punched a 30-year-old man in the face while making antisemitic insults and five youths aged attacked a 68-year-old man on his way to a Holocaust memorial in Berlin.
Thursday, January 9, 2020
Read moreFRANCE “GUARDIANS OF MEMORY” KEEP WATCH OVER FRANCE’S JEWISH CEMETERIES A growing number of individuals in France’s Alsace region have taken it upon themselves to patrol Jewish cemeteries after a spate of attacks on such sites that have horrified the country.
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Read moreJEWISH CEMETERY DESECRATED IN SOUTH-WESTERN FRANCE Several tombstones at the Jewish cemetery in Bayonne in south-western France were destroyed in an act of vandalism. The desecration was committed over the first weekend of the year.
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Read moreGREECE STAR OF DAVID STOLEN FROM HOLOCAUST MONUMENT IN GREECE A monument to Holocaust victims was vandalised in the city of Trikala, whose synagogue was the target of an antisemitic attack a few days earlier.
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Read moreUNITED KINGDOM JEWISH BOY PUNCHED ON LONDON BUS, ATTACKER SHOUTS “JEWS THINK THEY OWN THE WORLD” A boy, 13, was punched in the stomach on a London bus by an attacker who shouted, “You stupid Jews think you own the world.”
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
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AUSCHWITZ VISITED BY RECORD NUMBERS IN 2019 A record 2.32 million people from around the word visited the sites of the former Nazi camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in 2019.
Thursday, January 9, 2020
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