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Wednesday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet forces in 1945. Due to the coronavirus, in lieu of traditional gatherings at Czech sites of remembrance, a memorial event at the parliament was broadcast live this morning, as will be a Czech-Israeli meeting and a gala concert at Prague’s Spanish Synagogue in the evening.
The spectre of the coronavirus, which has claimed so many lives, hung heavy in the air in a ceremonial chamber of the Senate; the echoing words of those honouring the memory of victims of the Holocaust, testimony to the extraordinary circumstances on the particular International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
U.S. Embassy Congratulates Luxembourg for its Historic Agreement on Outstanding Holocaust Issues
The United States Embassy in Luxembourg congratulates the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for signing an historic agreement today with the Jewish Community of Luxembourg, together with the World Jewish Restitution Organization and the Luxembourg Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah.
It is only fitting this historic agreement is being signed on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day where Governments and Jewish Communities around the world remember the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
The origins of this agreement date back to 2009, when the United States, Luxembourg and 45 other countries committed to rectify the consequences of the Nazi-era wrongful asset seizures and to promote the welfare of Holocaust survivors around the world by endorsing the Terezin Declaration.
Representatives of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies gathered in the Czech Senate on Wednesday for a commemorative event marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, observed around the world on January 27.
The meeting was organized by the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic and the Endowment Fund for Holocaust Victims in cooperation with the upper chamber of Parliament. Due to the coronavirus restrictions in place, speeches by the speakers of both chambers, Michaela Vidláková, a former prisoner of the Terezín ghetto, and Petr Papoušek, chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic, were broadcast online.
Accused pedophile Malka Leifer finally facing justice after extradition from Israel By Ian Lee How Jewish American pedophiles hide from justice in Israel
Israeli authorities extradited a woman to Australia this week where she s facing 74 counts of rape and child sexual abuse. Malka Leifer is alleged to have committed the crimes while she was the principal at a Jewish girls school in Melbourne between 2004 to 2008. The victims are absolutely relieved and are ecstatic to achieve their goal, Manny Waks, CEO of VoiCSA, an Israel-based organization dedicated to combating child sexual abuse in the global Jewish community, who is working with Leifer s victims, told CBS News. But let s not forget that this is just start of it. Now their case really begins in Australia.