Today in Jewish History – Tishrei 11

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Sponsored by Aish.com: In 1941, SS Chief Helmut Knochen ordered the systematic destruction of synagogues in Paris. During this time the Vichy government established other anti-Jewish measures, including the requirement that all Jews wear a yellow badge. Roundups took place in Paris where tens of thousands of Jews were arrested and handed over to the Nazis. Of an estimated 350,000 Jews who lived in France, 25 percent were murdered in the Holocaust. While many were sent to Auschwitz, there were also concentration camps located inside France, such as Gurs.

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Wiesenthal Centre to Danish Prime Minister: Withdraw State Award To Holocaust Denier

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Received by email:~~~~~~~~~~~~~The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has urged Denmark’s Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, to void a monetary award by the Ministry of Culture’s Arts Council (Kunst Raadet) to Erik Haaest, known as the “Holocaust Sceptic”. In his protest to PM Rasmussen, Dr. Shimon Samuels, the Wiesenthal Centre’s Director for International Relations, wrote in part: “Haaest reportedly received this prize for his work on ‘The Danish Friekorps on the Eastern Front 1941 1965’, hardly a symbol of Danish National pride”, adding, “Haaest’s citations from Holocaust denial literature go back to the 1959 volume of the Journal of Historical Review published

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Playwright George Tabori Dies in Berlin

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Hungarian-born playwright and director George Tabori, a legend in Germany’s postwar theater world whose avant-garde works confronted anti-Semitism, has died, the Berliner Ensemble said Tuesday. He was 93. Tabori, who as recently as three years ago dreamed of returning to stage to play the title role in Shakespeare’ s “King Lear,” died Monday in his apartment near the theater, the Berliner Ensemble said, noting that friends and family had accompanied him through his final days. No cause of death was given. “George Tabori – a poet, a director, an actor, a genius of life, a truly unique human being –

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Natalia Karp, 96; pianist who survived concentration camps

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This story broke my heart. Rest in peace, Natalia. Via LA Times: Natalia Karp, a concert pianist who was spared from execution during the Holocaust after playing at a party for the commandant of a German concentration camp, died July 9, British news outlets reported. She was 96. She arrived at the camp with her sister Dec. 9, 1943, and expected to be shot when she was summoned to appear at the birthday party of Amon Goeth, the murderous commandant of the Plaszow work camp in Poland. Instead, he commanded her to perform. “I had not played since 1939, and

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The Terezin Ghetto children’s opera Brundibar in a new English recording

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From Cesky Rozhlas/Radio Praha: It is quite possible that you will have heard Hans Krasa’s famous children’s opera Brundibar, but it is less likely that you will have heard it performed in English. Naxos has now come out with a first English language recording. We recently featured music by Hans Krasa on Encore, and as we mentioned then, he is, tragically, best known today not for his enormous musical gifts, but for the fact that, like many gifted Czech and German Jewish musicians, he was transported during the German occupation to the ghetto in Terezin (Theresienstadt) , and later to

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‘YOU JEWISH PIG’

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Germany, like Islam, still hasn’t evolved. From Spiegel Online: They were two teams of 14-year-olds. But that didn’t seem to matter. Right-wing fans rained anti-Semitic and racist insults down on a youth-league game in Eastern Germany last month. Police are investigating, but it’s far from an isolated incident. The Ascension Day holiday was to be a big day for the football community in Wurzen, a small town of 15,000 near Leipzig in former Communist-ruled East Germany. The local junior league had a match scheduled with a team from the industrial city of Chemnitz, formerly known as Karl-Marx-Stadt and located near

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Website: The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants

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From The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants: The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants is the umbrella organization of survivor groups and landsmanshaften located in North America that was founded in 1981. The mission of the organization is remembrance, education and commemoration. Immediately after the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Israel in June, 1981, the organizers of that event established a non-profit corporation to prepare for the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Washington, DC in April, 1983. The officers of this “event-geared” organization were Benjamin Meed, Sam Bloch, Ernest

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