EUROPEAN JEWISH CONGRESS-Newsletter 9 February 2021
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Comunidad Judía
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4 Adar 5781 – 16 February, 2021
| POLISH POLICE PROBE JOURNALIST FOR WRITING ABOUT POLES’ HOLOCAUST COMPLICITY
Katarzyna Markusz, who runs the Jewish.pl website, was questioned on suspicion that she violated Article 133 of the Polish constitution, which subjects those who “publicly insult the Nation or the Republic of Poland” to up to three years in prison.
Monday, February 8, 2021 |
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| GERMAN PROSECUTORS CHARGE 100-YEAR-OLD FORMER CONCENTRATION CAMP GUARD
German prosecutors have charged a 100-year-old German man with being an accessory to 3,518 murders committed while he was allegedly a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during the latter half of WWII.
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 |
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| NAZI SECRETARY AT STUTTHOF CAMP CHARGED FOR ROLE IN 10,000 MURDERS
A woman who served as a secretary at the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust has been charged for being complicit in the murders of 10,000 people as well as attempted murder, according to German prosecutors.
Monday, February 8, 2021 |
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| MONTENEGRO’S PARLIAMENT AND JEWISH COMMUNITY MARK IHRD
The President of the Parliament of Montenegro, Aleksa Bečić and the President of the Jewish Community in Montenegro (JCMNE), Nina Ofner Bokan, marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day with the opening of an exhibition.
Monday, February 8, 2021 |
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| PORK DEPOSITED IN FRONT OF SYNAGOGUES IN SWITZERLAND
In a series of antisemitic incidents in French-speaking Switzerland, a pack of bacon was deposited in front of the synagogue of Lausanne, and pork was thrown towards the building in Geneva.
Monday, February 8, 2021 |
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| NINE LEADING BULGARIAN UNIVERSITIES ADOPT THE IHRA DEFINITION
Nine leading Bulgarian universities adopted the working definition of antisemitism of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) at a ceremony at the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Monday, February 8, 2021 |
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| ROMANIA APPOINTS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ON COMBATTING ANTISEMITISM
Romanian Prime Minister Florin Citu has appointed a special Special Representative for Promoting the policies of Memory, Combating Antisemitism and Xenophobia.
Monday, February 8, 2021 |
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| “STOLPERSTEIN” IN MEMORY OF CHIEF RABBI OF ZAGREB RE-INSTALLED
The Stolperstein (stumbling block) in memory of Miroslav Šalom Freiberger, the Zagreb chief rabbi who was killed in Auschwitz, was reinstalled in Zagreb’s Amruševa Street, after it had been destroyed the previous month.
Sunday, February 7, 2021 |
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| INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AUTHORISES INVESTIGATION AGAINST ISRAEL
The International Criminal Court determined that Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda jurisdiction to open a criminal investigation against Israel and the Palestinians for war crimes alleged to have taken place in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.
Monday, February 8, 2021 |
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| UAE AND ISRAELI SOCCER CLUBS TO PLAY FIRST FRIENDLIES SINCE NORMALISATION
UAE club Al-Ain will play Israel’s Maccabi Haifa in two friendlies, the Emirati side said, the first such fixtures since the two countries normalised relations.
Monday, February 8, 2021 |
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