Tag Archives: holocaust
B’nai B’rith, KKL-JNF to honor Jews who rescued fellow Jews during Holocaust
This year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day will see the “Jewish Rescuers Citation” conferred on rescuers who operated in France, Holland, Germany, Slovakia, Lithuania, then-Czechoslovakia and Denmark. Read more » »
CEO Op-ed in Algemeiner: Holocaust Remembrance: Responsibilities for All Society
The Algemeiner published an op-ed by B’nai B’rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin about the importance of Holocaust remembrance and important lessons for combating Holocaust denial and distortion. Read in the Algemeiner When I began my career nearly 50 years ago, Holocaust remembrance events were few and far between. Read more » »
B’nai B’rith Commends U.N. Chief’s Invoking of Anti-Semitism Definition That Encompasses Delegitimization of Israel, Urges Formal Use
Four Rights Monitors Saluted for Condemning “Zionism-is-Racism” Slur (Washington, D.C., Jan. 27, 2022)—B’nai B’rith President Seth Riklin and CEO Daniel S. Read more » »
New German Foreign Minister, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security and European Commission Vice President Address B’nai B’rith Holocaust Remembrance Day Event
“Holocaust Remembrance: Responsibilities For All Society” (Washington, D.C., Jan. 24, 2022)—In her first major address before an international Jewish audience since starting her new role, Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock delivered a Read more » »
CEO and Dir. of U.N. Affairs Op-ed in Newsweek: Holocaust Comparisons Are Holocaust Denial. It Has to Stop.
Newsweek published an op-ed by B’nai B’rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin and Director of U.N. and Intercommunal Affairs David Michaels urging members of Congress and all others to stop trivializing the Holocaust to score cheap political points. Read in Newsweek The Holocaust is once again being trivialized in the name of the politics. Read more » »
Special tribute to Holocaust victims held in Oporto
JNS noted that as part of a special ceremony held at the Holocaust Museum in Oporto, Portugal, honoring the victims of the Nazi genocide of the Jews, a certificate of tribute was presented to museum director Michael Rothwell. Read more » »
B’nai B’rith International Takes Part in High-level Malmö Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Anti-Semitism
(Washington, D.C., Oct. 14, 2021)–B’nai B’rith International is pleased to have taken part in the historic Malmö Remember-React International Forum, to promote Holocaust Remembrance and combat anti-Semitism. Read more » »
Jewish Community Responds to Educator’s Holocaust Comparison
The Hebrew Watchman (Memphis) included letters from both B’nai B’rith International President Charles O. Kaufman and Memphis-area B’nai B’rith leader Harold I. Steinberg to Germantown Municipal School District superintendent Dr. Jason Manuel in response to a district administrator comparing vaccine papers to yellow stars. Read more » »
Coverage of B’nai B’rith Rescuers Citation Presentation in Amsterdam
B’nai B’rith International has received coverage for a Rescuers Citation given to Jewish resistance fighter Henriëtte Pimentel, who saved 600 children in Amsterdam from Nazi death camps. She was honored at the Verzets Resistance Museum 78 years after her death. Read more » »
Jews Who Saved Jews… The Hands of Choice – Safed
The Times of Israel (blog) included B’nai B’rith International’s Rescuers Citation, which honors Jews who rescued fellow Jews during the Holocaust, in its coverage of a new memorial sculpture in Safed. Read more » »
