Friday, January 27, 2012
Overnight Music video - ''Schindler's List'' - violin solos by Itzhak Perlman
January 27 is designated Holocaust Remembrance Day.In memory of those relatives that did not survive the Camps.
"Eternal vigilance is the price of our freedom. This is our task, this is our responsibility." ~ Thomas Jefferson.
(JPost).OSLO - Norway apologized for the first time on Friday for the country's complicity in the deportation and deaths of Jews during the Nazi occupation in World War Two."Norwegians carried out the arrests; Norwegians drove the trucks and it happened in Norway," Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said. "Today I feel it is fitting to express our deepest apologies that this could happen on Norwegian soil.""It is time for us to acknowledge that Norwegian policemen, civil servants and other Norwegians took part in the arrest and deportation of Jews," he said in a speech marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day.Vidkun Quisling, the country's leader during the occupation whose name has become synonymous with traitor, ordered Norway's 2,100 Jews registered in 1942. More than a third were deported to death camps, while others fled to neighboring Sweden.Read the full story here.
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