Video - Palestinian Historian Salman Abu Sitta: Israel Perpetrated Holocaust against the Palestinians

Did Belgian interior Minister Condone Nazi Collaboration?

Belgium SS Leon Degrelle with Goebbles.

Did Belgian interior Minister Condone Nazi Collaboration? (Forward).

A representative of Flemish Jews asked a deputy prime minister of Belgium to clarify statements in which he appeared to condone the actions of Nazi collaborators.

Jan Jambon, who is also Belgium’s interior minister, made the statements during an interview which was published last week in the La Libre Belgique newspaper.

During the interview, Jambon, who is a member of the New Flemish Alliance party, was asked about his participation in 2001 at a rally organized by the far-right association Sint-Maartenfonds, whose mission statement is to support Flemish Belgians who fought on Nazi Germany’s side in World War II. 

Commenting about these veterans, he said: “The people who collaborated with the Germans, they had their reasons. I did not live in those times.”

After the Oct. 13 publication of the interview, Jambon rejected any interpretation of his words as condoning Nazism or collaboration with Nazi Germany and apologized to anyone who was offended by them.

But Raphael Werner of the Flemish Forum of Jewish Organizations told the Antwerp-based Joods Actueel newspaper that the forum wants to meet with Jambon and discuss the issue more thoroughly.

“Then we could hear for ourselves what are the positions of the minister, not only about collaboration but also about the sensitive questions connected to it,” he said, according to an article published on Oct. 14.

Some 66,000 Jews lived in Belgium when Germany invaded in 1940, according to Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. Of them, 34,801 were imprisoned and or deported. More than 80 percent of those deported died.

Belgium, a federal bi-national state, comprises three autonomous regions: The Dutch-speaking Flemish Region; the French-speaking Walloon Region; and the central Brussels region.Read the full story here.

Related: Belgian Senate recognizes authorities’ role during Holocaust

Russian TV host says Jews “brought the Holocaust on” themselves.

Russian TV host says Jews “brought the Holocaust on” themselves.(EuroMaidan).

“Russia 24” TV Channel host Evelina Zakamska said that the Jews themselves “brought the Holocaust around”. 

The remark was made during the interview with a Russian writer Oleksandr Prokhanov.

The participants of the program touched upon the topic of the Euromaidan in Ukraine.

In connection to this Prokhanov said on the air: “It’s surprising that Jewish and Russian organizations support Maidan. What are they doing? Don’t they understand that they are bringing around a second Holocaust with their own hands?”

The host responded: “They were bringing around the first one in just the same way”.

Video - Hidden camera recording shows 'Comedian' Dieudonné evoking the gas chambers.

(GoogleTranslate) Images shot with a hidden camera by France 2 during one of his shows Dieudonné show that evokes the host France Inter and gas chambers.(Liberation).

Radio France said Friday it has brought to the attention of Justice "openly anti-Semitic remarks" made ​​by Dieudonné against Patrick Cohen, one of its leaders. He had recently estimated that shocking Dieudonné can still be invited to speak on television shows.

In a video filmed with a hidden camera by a team of Further investigation aired Thursday night on France 2, one can hear Dieudonné declare: "You see it, if the wind changes, I'm not sure he has the time to his suitcase. Me, you know, when I hear, Patrick Cohen, I think, you know, the gas chambers ... it's a pitty. "

"Following the openly anti-Semitic required by comedian Dieudonné to our colleague Patrick Cohen, released Thursday, December 19 as part of a report by the issuance Further investigation on France 2, the direction of Radio France decided to report these facts to the court. The prosecutor will decide whether or not to open legal proceedings against Dieudonné " , said Radio France in a statement published on the website of France Inter .

In a statement , the company journalists from Radio France condemns the Dieudonné and expresses its solidarity with Patrick Cohen. "It is not only professional solidarity, it is also in response to words, thoughts, behaviors that stupidity and ignorance can not explain and excuse even less. "

Dieudonné has been sentenced to six times by the courts for anti-Semitic remarks. In late November, he was fined 28,000 euro fine for defamation, libel and incitement to hatred and racial discrimination

'Bad Taste?" - French Company Markets Cleaning Products Named 'Cyclone B'

Google 'search' results for 'Cyclone B'

'Bad Taste?" - French Company Markets Cleaning Products Named 'Cyclone B'.(INN).

French cleaning and hygiene company IPC-Sa has recalled a line of products named Cyclone B after severe backlash from European Jewish organizations. Cyclone B sounds similar to Zyklon B, the deadly chemical used by the Nazis to kill thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.

The product had been used by none other than the janitorial staff of the European Parliament, who ordered the staff to stop using the product soon after the news broke.

The matter was brought to the attention of European Jewish Association director Rabbi Menachem Margolin, who expressed horror in a German television interview Monday about the casual use of a term openly associated with the mass genocide of Jews during the Holocaust.

"This is great ignorance at best and hutzpah and a Guiness World Record for cynicism and evil at worst," Margolin stated. "Certainly, this is the filthiest name that could be given to a hygiene product."

The news follows disturbing reports earlier this year that anti-Semitism has skyrocketed in France in particular, and across the European Union in general.Hmmmm....In view of the Google search results i would opt for another 'brand name'.

Pope personally e-mails Jewish leader on Holocaust.

Pope personally e-mails Jewish leader on Holocaust.(TOI).

Francis pens a reflection on the place of God during the Shoah in light of the massacre of 1 million Jewish children.

ROME – Pope Francis has continued to reach out to Jews, this time with a personal email to Menachem Z. Rosensaft, an American law professor who deals with Holocaust and genocide issues.

Francis’s email was a reflection on the place of God during the Holocaust. It was, Elizabeth Tenety wrote in the Washington Post’s On Faith blog, a response to Rosensaft, who had sent the Vatican the text of a sermon he delivered at New York’s Park Avenue synagogue on this topic during this year’s High Holidays.

The son of two Holocaust survivors, Rosensaft is general counsel of the World Jewish Congress and vice president of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants.

In his sermon, which was published in the On Faith blog, Rosensaft had declared, “My parents’ entire immediate families were murdered in the Shoah. My mother’s five-a-and-half-year-old son, my brother, was one of more than one million Jewish children who were killed by the Germans and their accomplices only and exclusively because they were Jewish. Again, what possible transgressions could any of them have committed to cause God to turn away from them?”

How, he asked, “can we believe in God in the aftermath of the Shoah? Shouldn’t an omniscient God have had to know that the cataclysm was being perpetrated? And shouldn’t an omnipotent God have been able to prevent it?”

According to the Post the pope replied, “When you, with humility, are telling us where God was in that moment, I felt within me that you had transcended all possible explanations and that, after a long pilgrimage — sometimes sad, tedious or dull – you came to discover a certain logic and it is from there that you were speaking to us; the logic of First Kings 19:12, the logic of that ‘gentle breeze’ (I know that it is a very poor translation of the rich Hebrew expression) that constitutes the only possible hermeneutic interpretation. Thank you from my heart. And, please, do not forget to pray for me. May the Lord bless you.”

Hmmmm.....

Pope Francis I:  “Jesus is indignant when he sees these things” because those who suffer are “his faithful people, the people that he loves so much.”

Pope Karol Wojtyla:

In order to perceive the true answer to the "why" of suffering, we must look to the revelation of divine love, the ultimate source of the meaning of everything that exists. 

Love is also the richest source of the meaning of suffering, which always remains a mystery: We are conscious of the insufficiency and inadequacy of our explanations. Christ causes us to enter into the mystery and to discover the "why" of suffering, as far as we are capable of gasping the sublimity of divine love. 

In order to discover the profound meaning of suffering . . . we must above all accept the light of revelation. . . . Love is also the fullest source of the answer to the question of the meaning of suffering. This answer has been given by God to man in the cross of Jesus Christ. (SD 13)

Knesset to hold historic gathering at Auschwitz-Birkenau on combating anti-Semitism.

Knesset to hold historic gathering at Auschwitz-Birkenau on combating anti-Semitism.(TOI).

On January 27, 2014, the largest ever delegation of Knesset members will convene overseas, on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau, together with Holocaust survivors, for a historic gathering on combating anti-Semitism and preservation of death camps. 

The symbolism could not be any more striking — mere meters away from the gas chambers where millions of Jews were once murdered, the representatives of the parliament of the Jewish state will meet.

The event will be held on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a memorial day in honor of the 6 million Jews who perished during the Holocaust. 2014 will also mark the 69^th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Soviet Army and Allied troops in 1945.

Asked why not wait another year for the 70^th Anniversary to hold such a symbolic commemoration, Daniels says, “There is never the right time to hold an event like this,” adding “there is no shortage of symbolic events that happened over the years, that any given day is a special anniversary.”

According to the Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims in Israel, at least one survivor in Israel dies every hour. 

Daniels warns “there is no time to wait as we are getting very close to the point where there will be no more first-hand accounts left. The onus falls on us, not just as Jews and Israelis, but humanity as a whole, is to learn, to be with the survivors and to really understand what happened and to ensure it never repeats again.”

The Israeli delegation will include over half the Knesset, with at least 60 MKs from all the major parties, and will be led by Speaker of the Knesset, Yuli Edelstein. Each MK will be accompanying a Holocaust survivor, with a specially chartered plane flying the group from Israel.

In addition, the delegation will include senior representatives of the Israel Defense Forces, both Chief Rabbis of the State of Israel and former Chief Rabbi Meir Lau (a Holocaust survivor himself). Representatives of various student groups will also attend, signifying the living link between the past and the future.

According to Edelstein, the dramatic rise of anti-Semitism in Europe is “very worrying.” He says it has reached a level “unprecedented since the end of the Holocaust.”

Edelstein notes: “The Holocaust did not start with Auschwitz-Birkenau, but with boycotts, words and throwing stones at Jewish shop windows.” He is also particularly concerned about some of the “openly anti-Semitic” parties and politicians around the world today, especially in Europe.

The primary objective of the mission, according to Edelstein, is to highlight the importance of remembering the Holocaust and to “have a conversation with elected officials from around the world about what needs to be done to make sure nothing of the kind ever happens again, anywhere in the world, especially as far as Jews are concerned.”

Edelstein warns that anti-Semitism “is not just a Jewish or Israeli problem alone” and that while “it starts with the Jews, it doesn’t end with the Jews.”

Fars: "CNN, Amanpour Should Account for Fabrication of President Rouhani's Remarks."

Fars: "CNN, Amanpour Should Account for Fabrication of President Rouhani's Remarks."(fars).

TEHRAN (FNA)- The CNN and Christian Amanpour, who interviewed President Rouhani on Tuesday, should account for the fabrication of the Iranian President's remarks about the Holocaust, as they are responsible for what they air, specially considering that Amanpour has been raised in Iran and knows the Persian language very well.

The American news channel CNN fabricated the Iranian President's remarks in response to the network's question about the Holocaust in an interview which was aired on Tuesday and Wednesday.

During the interview, the CNN aired an English translation of President Rouhani's remarks which was totally inacurate and untrustworthy, and in some parts contained sentences which were not at all uttered by the president. (for details click here)

A CNN source was quoted by Business Insider as saying that "the translator was chosen and hired by the Iranians, and we re-voiced/dubbed exactly as she translated and the CNN is planning to post the entire interview, with translator's voice and transcript later", (which it did, but could not remove the burden of the guilt of misinforming the public from the shoulders of the CNN).

It was expected from a professional news channel like the CNN and a professional host like Ms. Christian Amanpour who knows the Persian language very well and even greeted with President Rouhani in Persian at the beginning of the interview to listen carefully to what exactly the Iranian president said about the Holocaust and edit those parts which didn’t correspond to Mr. Rouhani's comments instead of blaming the Iran-chosen translator for the big fault.

According to the Wikipedia, "Born in London, England, Amanpour was raised in Tehran. Her father is a Muslim from Iran; her mother is a Christian from England. After completing the larger part of her elementary education in Iran, she was sent by her parents to boarding school in England when she was 11" which proves that Amanpour knows Persian very well.

Ms. Amanpour has many videos on the internet showing her speaking in Persian very fluently and then even translating those sentences into English for the audience.

She has also had long chats and dicussions with Iranian reporters, including one of FNA's editors, in Persian and she has appreared very fluent in Persian everywhere.

Fars News Agency's political desk editor Assadi, who has talked with Amanpour on a number of occassions, says, "She speaks Farsi (Persian) even better than I do."

FNA found the differences between President Rouhani's comments and its translation after the CNN aired the interview on Tuesday and protested at this untrustworthy and misleading coverage.

CNN officials seem to be escaping their responsibility of informing the public honestly.

Even if we suppose that the CNN had no role in this blunder, the network first had the vital responsibility for checking the veracity of the translation of the remarks of the president of a world country about such a vital issue as the recognition or rejection of the Holocaust, specially when it is the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran speaking about this subject.

Yet, again now that the network knows the untrustworthiness of the translations, it has the responsibility to inform the public of the mistake and air the interview again, but this time with a deserving translation.

Fars: "CNN Fabricates Iranian President's Remarks about Holocaust."

Fars: 'CNN Fabricates Iranian President's Remarks about Holocaust.'(Fars).

American news channel CNN fabricated the remarks made by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in response to the network’s question about the Holocaust.

The CNN aired its interview with Rouhani on Tuesday but the news channel added to or changed parts of his remarks when Christiane Amanpour asked him about the Holocaust.

Here is the exact transcript of the Farsi text according to the CNN broadcast:

من قبلا گفتم که من تاریخ دان نیستم و ابعاد حوادث تاریخی را تاریخ دانان باید تبین کنند، بیان کنند و توضیخ بدهند. اما به طور کلی هرگونه جنایتی که در تاریخ علیه بشریت اتفاق افتاده باشد و از جمله جنایتی که نازی ها انجام دادند چه در مورد یهودیان و چه در مورد غیر یهودیان از نظر ما کاملا محکوم است همانطور که امروز هم اگر جنایتی انجام شود علیه هر ملتی یا هر دینی یا هر قومیتی یا هر اعتقادی، ما آن جنایت و نسل کشی را محکوم می کنیم بنابراین کار نازی ها محکوم است بنابراین ابعادی که شما می گویید به عهده مورخین و محققین است که آن ابعاد را روشن کنند. من محقق تاریخی نیستم.

Here is the exact English translation of President Rouhani’s remarks:

Rouhani’s: “I have said before that I am not a historian and historians should specify, state and explain the aspects of historical events, but generally we fully condemn any kind of crime committed against humanity throughout the history, including the crime committed by the Nazis both against the Jews and non-Jews, the same way that if today any crime is committed against any nation or any religion or any people or any belief, we condemn that crime and genocide. Therefore, what the Nazis did is condemned, but the aspects that you talk about, clarification of these aspects is a duty of the historians and researchers, I am not a history scholar.”

And here is what the CNN translation says:

CNN Question: “One of the things your predecessor (President Ahmadinejad) used to do from this very platform was deny(ing) the holocaust and pretend(ing) it was a myth, I want to know you, your position on the holocaust, do you accept what it was, and what was it?”

CNN’s Translation: “I’ve said before that I am not a historian and then, when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust, it is the historians that should reflect on it. But in general I can tell you that any crime that happens in history against humanity, including the crime that Nazis committed towards the Jews as well as non-Jews is reprehensible and condemnable. Whatever criminality they committed against the Jews, we condemn, the taking of human life is contemptible, it makes no difference whether that life is Jewish life, Christian or Muslim, for us it is the same, but taking the human life is something our religion rejects but this doesn’t mean that on the other hand you can say Nazis committed crime against a group now therefore, they must usurp the land of another group and occupy it. This too is an act that should be condemned. There should be an even-handed discussion”.


After the CNN released the interview, hundreds of news agencies, TV and news channels, websites and weblogs broadcast this title: “Iran’s President Rouhani Calls Holocaust ‘Reprehensible’ Crime Against Jews”, a title quoted from the CNN; Or “Rouhani Recognizes the Holocaust as Crime against Jews”.

Iran's Rouhani calls Holocaust reprehensible crime against Jews.

Iran's Rouhani calls Holocaust reprehensible crime against Jews.(Taz).

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that the Nazis committed a "reprehensible" crime against the Jewish people, when he was asked in a television interview whether he accepted that the Holocaust occurred, Reuters reported.

"I am not a historian and when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust it is the historians that should reflect," Rouhani told CNN during a visit to New York where he spoke to the United Nations General Assembly.
"But in general I can tell you that any crime that happens in history against humanity, including the crime the Nazis created towards the Jews, is reprehensible and condemnable," he said, according to CNN's translation of his comments.

Video - Egyptian Kid Journalist Surveys Passers-by's Knowledge of the Holocaust

Video - Egyptian Kid Journalist Surveys Passers-by's Knowledge of the Holocaust.

Following are excerpts from an Egyptian show titled "Anybody Knows?!", which was posted on the Internet on May 19, 2013.

Title: "Anybody Knows?!"

In the studio

Little boy: Welcome to our show. Today, we'll be talking about…

On the street

What is the Holocaust?

Woman: The what?

Little boy: The Holocaust.

Woman: I don't know.

Man: The Holocaust? I've got no idea.

Young man: Give me some options to choose from. In Germany? I've heard about it, but don't know exactly what happened.

Another young man: The what?

Little boy: The Holocaust…

Young man: Holocaust? Can you repeat the question?

Little boy: The Holocaust.

Young man: What Holocaust? I have no idea.

Old woman: I don't know.

Young woman: Why don't you tell me what it is? I told you that I don't know. There's nothing wrong with learning from someone younger than you.

Man: Ah, the Holocaust? You mean Hitler's Holocaust? During the war, he burned [Jews] in crematoria.

Another woman: Hitler captured the Jews and burned and gassed them. He killed many of them. I'm not convinced that this really happened though.

Another man: This is a new term. It's the first time I've heard it in Egypt.

Youth: Either he burned the Jews, or the Jews burned… I don't exactly remember.

Young man: The Holocaust took place during World War II. Hitler rounded up the Jews and put them in things called gas chambers. There are disputes regarding the figures. Some say three million Jews were killed, and others say it was one million. Some question whether it occurred.

In the studio

Little boy: In the Holocaust, lots of people were rounded up and killed.Source: Memri.

Netanyahu in Auschwitz blasts world for ignoring Nazi threat.

Netanyahu in Auschwitz blasts world for ignoring Nazi threat.(TOI).he world knew about the Holocaust and did nothing, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said from the Auschwitz death camp Thursday, vowing that Israel would take matters into its own hands to prevent a second Holocaust.

“The Allied leaders knew about the Holocaust as it was happening. They understood perfectly what was taking place in the death camps. They were asked to act, they could have acted, and they did not,” said Netanyahu. “For us Jews, the lesson is clear. We must not stand idle before the threats of annihilation. We must not bury our heads in the sand, or let others do our work. From here, the place that provides testimony for the will to eradicate us, I, the prime minister of Israel, the Jewish state, tell all the nations of the world: The State of Israel will do whatever is necessary to prevent a second Holocaust.”

Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Netanyahu insisted the intentions of the Iranians are just as murderous as the Nazis and their helpers.

“The comparison is intentional. Does Iran want to destroy the state of Israel, first and foremost its Jews? The answer is yes,” he said in response to a question from The Associated Press. “Here is where the comparison diverges, since there was no State of Israel back then that could defend itself. The difference is not in the hatred of Jews and the will to destroy them. This is something that is pretty consistent in history and even modern history. The Holocaust didn’t change this situation.”

Netanyahu said the upcoming “so-called” Iranian presidential election would “change nothing” in the Islamic republic’s quest for nuclear weapons and that the regime would continue to pursue a bomb aimed at destroying Israel. Iran insists its uranium enrichment program has only peaceful goals.

“This is a regime that is building nuclear weapons with the expressed purpose to annihilate Israel’s 6 million Jews,” Netanyahu said. “We will not allow this to happen. We will never allow another Holocaust.”Read the full story here.

Righteous Among the Nations Oskar Schindler was born 105 years ago today on April 28th, 1905.

Righteous Among the Nations Oskar Schindler was born 105 years ago today on April 28th, 1905. 

View testimonies of survivors he helped to save, scroll the actual List and see related photos http://bit.ly/ZteGIS

Read about Oskar Schindler in:
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Palestinian prisoner: ‘This hospital is like jail in fascist Germany during Holocaust’

                                                          Guess who's the 'Peaceful Religion'

Palestinian prisoner: ‘This hospital is like jail in fascist Germany during Holocaust’(RT).The prisoner, whose anonymity is preserved for security reasons, believes medical assistance in the Israeli jails is withheld on purpose, “to break the will of the detainees.” Speaking to RT, he described the negligence sick Palestinian detainees are faced with.

“We suffer from an incredibly low standard of medical assistance. Among those detained here, there are at least 25 people who suffer from cancer - and they’re not getting the treatment they need. They are only given painkillers,” he said, adding that the prison hospital is “like a jail, like the ones in fascist Germany during the Holocaust. It only has a small infirmary, if you get placed there for 15 hours - you leave with sick kidneys or liver, or any other kind of disease.”

Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh, a Palestinian inmate of an Israeli prison, whose death on Tuesday provoked a wave of clashes across West Bank and Gaza, had reportedly been refused release for treatment. According to Abu Hamdiyeh’s family, he had complained about his health since the summer of last year. But it was only in March, when he was already terminally ill, that prison authorities allowed him to be treated in hospital, where he died a week later.

Hamdiyeh’s funeral attracted thousands of mourners. The raging and rioting crowd blamed Israel for the 63-year-old prisoner’s death.

The accusations were dismissed at the highest level.

"The Palestinian detainees imprisoned in Israel receive excellent medical attention and are visited by the Red Cross, whereas inmates in PA prisons receive nothing," Ofir Gendelman, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said, accusing the Palestinian Authority of exploiting the prisoner's death in order to escalate tensions in the West Bank, according to Haaretz. Hmmmmm....How many Jews 'graduated from university' during their prisoner time in the Nazi death camps?Read the full story here.

The 'Magnitude ' of The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking.

In some of these 'dots' relatives of mine died in inhuman conditions , two survived thank God to tell.

The 'Magnitude ' of The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking.HT: NewYorkTimes.
THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe.

What they have found so far has shocked even scholars steeped in the history of the Holocaust.

The researchers have cataloged some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe, spanning German-controlled areas from France to Russia and Germany itself, during Hitler’s reign of brutality from 1933 to 1945.

The figure is so staggering that even fellow Holocaust scholars had to make sure they had heard it correctly when the lead researchers previewed their findings at an academic forum in late January at the German Historical Institute in Washington.

“The numbers are so much higher than what we originally thought,” Hartmut Berghoff, director of the institute, said in an interview after learning of the new data.

“We knew before how horrible life in the camps and ghettos was,” he said, “but the numbers are unbelievable.”

The documented camps include not only “killing centers” but also thousands of forced labor camps, where prisoners manufactured war supplies; prisoner-of-war camps; sites euphemistically named “care” centers, where pregnant women were forced to have abortions or their babies were killed after birth; and brothels, where women were coerced into having sex with German military personnel.

Auschwitz and a handful of other concentration camps have come to symbolize the Nazi killing machine in the public consciousness. Likewise, the Nazi system for imprisoning Jewish families in hometown ghettos has become associated with a single site — the Warsaw Ghetto, famous for the 1943 uprising. But these sites, infamous though they are, represent only a minuscule fraction of the entire German network, the new research makes painfully clear.

The maps the researchers have created to identify the camps and ghettos turn wide sections of wartime Europe into black clusters of death, torture and slavery — centered in Germany and Poland, but reaching in all directions. When the research began in 2000, Dr. Megargee said he expected to find perhaps 7,000 Nazi camps and ghettos, based on postwar estimates. But the numbers kept climbing — first to 11,500, then 20,000, then 30,000, and now 42,500.

The numbers astound: 30,000 slave labor camps; 1,150 Jewish ghettos; 980 concentration camps; 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps; 500 brothels filled with sex slaves; and thousands of other camps used for euthanizing the elderly and infirm, performing forced abortions, “Germanizing” prisoners or transporting victims to killing centers.

In Berlin alone, researchers have documented some 3,000 camps and so-called Jew houses, while Hamburg held 1,300 sites.

Dr. Dean, a co-researcher, said the findings left no doubt in his mind that many German citizens, despite the frequent claims of ignorance after the war, must have known about the widespread existence of the Nazi camps at the time.

“You literally could not go anywhere in Germany without running into forced labor camps, P.O.W. camps, concentration camps,” he said. “They were everywhere.”Hmmmm........'Wir haben es nicht gewußt'...'We did not know'....YES you did know.He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Read the full story here.

100 imams to commemorate Holocaust in France

Imams praying at Dachau

100 imams to commemorate Holocaust in France.(TOI).Some 100 imams will commemorate the Holocaust at a memorial monument near Paris.
Monday’s event is planned for Drancy, a suburb of the French capital where tens of thousands of Jews were confined in 1942 before being transported to extermination camps during the German Nazi occupation, according to a report in the French daily Le Figaro. The paper called the event unprecedented.
Hassen Chalghoumi, the imam of Drancy and a veteran activist for dialogue between Muslims and Jews in France and against anti-Semitism, will host the imams.
Manuel Valls, France’s interior minister, also is scheduled to attend the event, which Le Figaro reported is the initiative of Chalghoumi and the French Jewish novelist Marek Halter.
In explaining the goal of the event, Halter recalled a landmark visit by 19 French Muslim leaders, many of them imams, to Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum.
“This had a huge impact in Israel and the Arab World,” Halter told Le Figaro. “The objective is to re-create this at Drancy.”
Since the second intifada of 2000, France’s Jewish population of approximately 550,000 has experienced an increase in anti-Semitic violence, mostly by Muslim extremists. Last March, Mohammed Merah, a 23-year-old French-Algerian Islamist terrorist, killed four Jews at a Jewish day school in Toulouse.
“We are in a period of crisis, and tensions take the form of violence,” Halter said. “We need to soothe the tensions. It’s a time bomb.”Hmmmm..........Read the full story here.

Video - PA Antisemitism: Balfour Declaration was Europe's "ideal solution to get rid of them".

PA Antisemitism: Balfour Declaration was Europe's "ideal solution to get rid of them". Europe could not bear Jews' character traits.(PW).By Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik.
On International Holocaust Day, Palestinian Media Watch documents that messages of Antisemitism and hatred of Jews continue to be transmitted by official Palestinian Authority TV.
Earlier this month, on Fatah's 48th anniversary, PA TV broadcast a new film about the history of the Fatah movement: "Fatah: Revolution until Victory."
The filmmakers chose to open the film by expressing classic Antisemitic demonization of Jews, stating that Europe "suffered a tragedy by providing refuge for the Jews." Having Jews living among them placed a great burden on Europeans: "Faced with the Jews' schemes, Europe could not bear their character traits, monopolies, corruption, and their control and climbing up positions in government."

Palestinian Media Watch has documented that the PA for years has explained Zionism as a European plot to be rid of its Jews.

The film explains that this eventually led to the expulsion of the Jews from England, France, Germany, Austria, Holland, Czechoslovakia, Spain and Italy, because of European suffering from the Jews' presence. Finally, when the Balfour Declaration facilitated the establishment of "a national homeland" for the Jews, Europe supported it because it "saw it as an ideal solution to get rid of them."

PMW documents PA Holocaust libels and misappropriation.

PMW also documents PA's ongoing Antisemitism and demonization of Jews.

The following is the excerpt of the PA TV broadcast on Fatah that demonized Jews:

"Faced with the Jews' schemes, Europe could not bear their character traits, monopolies, corruption, and their control and climbing up positions in government. In 1290, King Edward I issued a decree banishing the Jews [from England]. Following him were France, Germany, Austria, Holland, Czechoslovakia, Spain and Italy. The European nations felt that they had suffered a tragedy by providing refuge for the Jews. Later the Jews obtained the Balfour Declaration, and Europe saw it as an ideal solution to get rid of them."[PA TV, Jan. 1, 2013].

Read the full story here.

The 'Palestinian child-soldiers'

The 'Palestinian child-soldiers'. (JPost).Last Thursday, many Sunni Muslims celebrated the birth of Islam’s founder Muhammad. As the Jerusalem Post’s Khaled Abu Toameh reported, Gaza’s Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh announced during a ceremony to mark this occasion that Hamas was planning to establish a “military academy” that would offer training to children as young as twelve. The children attending the school would be able to “graduate with a diploma or a BA in military affairs.” However, as a widely quoted Associated Press (AP) report indicates, this was apparently not an entirely new initiative: since last September, Hamas has been offering a military training program as “a weekly elective…in all Gaza high schools,” and the ceremony on Thursday included celebrations of the “graduation” of the first 3600 participants:

“More than 3,000 Palestinian teenagers on Thursday graduated from the ruling Hamas terror group’s first high school military training program in the Gaza Strip, displaying mock weapons, crawling commando-style on the ground and taking up fighting positions for thousands of cheering supporters.
Hamas officials said the Futuwwa, or ‘Youth,’ program is aimed at fostering a new generation of leaders in the struggle against Israel.”
A fifteen year old graduate of this program quoted in the AP report was enthusiastic:
“My officer taught me the values of courage, sacrifice and love of jihad, as well as some battle tactics […] I feel that I can free my energy in a good way. I can do for real what I do in video games.”
There may well be a connection between this “educational” initiative by Hamas and the efforts mentioned by senior Hamas commander Zaher Jabarin in a recent interview with Hamas’ Al-Quds TV. In the interview, Jabarin boasted that Hamas labors “day and night” to educate Palestinian children to become suicide bombers.

“There was training of the divine generation, the true generation of martyrdom-seekers, through which we can participate in the battle. First, before anything else, before any Jihadi action, before the transfer of weapons, money, etc., and everything required for action, first and foremost is the individual person. The Islamic Movement [Hamas] took care of the education of this youngster who will participate in this battle […] We labored day and night to build the person, who will participate in this battle […] The Palestinian youngsters, the resistance and Jihad warriors, fight and quarrel over performing a courageous suicide operation.”

Jabarin emphasized that Hamas was “now preparing for the battle of liberation, and not just the resistance as we have done in the past” – and tellingly, the teenagers “graduating” on Muhammad’s birthday were called “Liberation Vanguards.” 
Among the many questions that should be raised in this context is whether the claim by AP that Hamas has been offering a military training program as “a weekly elective…in all Gaza high schools” means that UNRWA – which runs 245 schools for 225,000 students in Gaza – cooperates with Hamas in hosting or otherwise facilitating the military training of teenagers.
UNWRA also has a program for donors to “adopt” a Gaza school, and recently, the German government donated 3 million Euros for the construction of two additional UNRWA schools in Gaza. No doubt these donations are well-meant, but they obviously also allow the Hamas-rulers of Gaza to avoid committing resources to the education of Gaza’s children while leaving them free to finance instead “jihad” training for teenagers.
It is perhaps also time that the organizations that are so eager to indict Israel for any harm that comes to Palestinian teenagers in situations of conflict take note of the longstanding and prevalent Palestinian practice to provide children with some sort of military training.Read the full story here.

1940 -  1945 .......l'histoire se repete toujours deux fois

Youngest 'Schindler's List' survivor dies at 83 in Southern California.

Youngest 'Schindler's List' survivor dies at 83 in Southern California.(CNSnews).Leon Leyson, who was the youngest of 1,100 Jews saved from the Nazis by Oscar Schindler, has died in Southern California at 83.
His daughter, Stacy Wilfong, tells the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/WUllpf ) that Leyson died Saturday in Whittier from lymphoma.
Leyson was nearly 10 when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. He lost two brothers during the Holocaust but was protected by Schindler and at 13 worked in his factory. Dubbed "Little Leyson," he was so short that he stood on a box to operate machinery.
He later moved to the U.S. and taught at Huntington Park High School for 39 years.
Leyson rarely spoke of his experiences until the 1993 movie "Schindler's List" sparked renewed interest. He then embarked on a public speaking career to share his story.
Two of his brothers were killed. Older brother Hershel had fled to the family's village and died in a massacre of its 500 residents.
Another brother, Tsalig, was taken from the ghetto and placed on a train to a concentration camp. In "Schindler's List," the Steven Spielberg movie based on the book by Thomas Keneally, Schindler is shown getting on the train to save his accountant. He recognized Leyson's brother and tried to save him, but the 16-year-old refused to budge because he was with his girlfriend, who was not on Schindler's list of employees.
"Leon could never make it through this painful part of his talk without breaking down," but didn't stop there because of "his determination and tenacity to keep telling the story," said William Elperin, president of the 1939 Club, an organization of Holocaust survivors and descendants.
After seeing the movie at a screening, Leyson was awed, particularly by scenes showing boys running from the Nazi commandos. "It was like having an out-of-body experience," he told The Times, "because those little kids who were … trying to get away from the Sondercommando — that was me. That was my friends."Hmmm........."Never Again".Read the full story here, more here.

Belgian Senate recognizes authorities’ role during Holocaust.

Belgium SS Leon Degrelle with Goebbles.

Belgian Senate recognizes authorities’ role during Holocaust.(TOI).A Belgian Senate committee adopted a resolution acknowledging the country’s complicity in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust.
The Senate’s committee on institutional affairs voted in favor of the resolution on Jan. 9, according to Belga, a local news agency.
“Some Belgian authorities practiced collaboration unfitting of a democracy,” the resolution read, “with tragic consequences for the Jewish population.”
The resolution also encourages the Belgian government to “examine the possibility of giving a statute” to Jews and Roma who were “deported for racist reasons” and to orphans of the Holocaust. It does not specify what that statute should be.
As the factual basis for the statement, the resolution referenced a 1,100-page report entitled “Obedient Belgium,” completed in 2007 by the Center for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society. The Senate tasked the federal research body with compiling the report in 2002.
An article in the newspaper La Libre Belgique cited political instability as the main reason for a six-year delay in the adoption of the report.
To come into effect, the resolution needs to pass in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, where it is expected to receive the support of a large majority.
Last year, the mayors of Antwerp and Brussels for the first time apologized for their municipalities’ role in the deportation of Jews from Belgium in 1942.
Some 66,000 Jews lived in Belgium when Germany invaded in 1940, according to Yad Vashem. Of them, 34,801 were imprisoned or deported. More than 80 percent of those deported died.Hmmmm......"Never Again".Read the full story here.