Jewish Genocide
Palestinian youth orchestra - challenged in the Territories over commemorating the Shoah
According to the Jerusalem-based daily Haaretz, a Jenin youth orchestra has been disbanded and its director Wafa Younis expelled from the Palestinian territories over commemorating the Holocaust. A Fatah official said that Hamas pushed this serious decision.
Israel dedicates a square - to Dimitar Peshev
Ceremony in the presence of the mayor of Tel Aviv Ron Huldai and of the president of Bulgaria Georgi Parabanov to commemorate Dimitar Peshev who rescued Bulgarian Jews (the main character in Gabriele Nissim’s book L'uomo che fermò Hitler - Mondadori).
Shoah
the genocide of Jews
In the framework of second world war (1939-1945) Europe witnessed the genocide of the Jewish people (1941-1945). The “final solution“, the extermination of six million Jews, was planned by Hitler who had come on power in Germany in 1933. Since the publication of Mein Kampf, Hitler had planned the nationalsocialist revolution based on a racist ideology.
In the memory of the Jewish people and in the verdict that closed the works of the International Military Court, 6,000,000 victims of the extermination are estimated. As a matter of facts, the most reliable scholars including Raul Hilberg estimate about 5,200,000 victims.
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Maria Bertolini Fioroni
The Italian "mother of the house on the mountain" that hosted numerous fugitives during the Second World War