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It has been thirty years since the terrorist attack on the center of the Argentine Jewish Community in Buenos Aires. It was the deadliest attack in Latin American history, when a driver, on a suicide mission, drove a truck full of explosives into the building of the Argentine Jewish Association (AMIA: Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina). The tragic toll: 85 dead and more than 300 injured. At the time, the Argentine Jewish Community had approximately 200.000 members, making it the largest Community in Latin America. The tragic incident occurred two years after the bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, which left 29 dead and for which the Argentine government blamed Iran.
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The European Jewish Congress (EJC) elected the Dr. Moshe Kantor for a fifth term as Chairman of the Board of Directors.
At the General Assembly, held on 21.5.25, in Jerusalem, representatives from more than 40 Jewish communities and organizations in Europe elected veteran leader Cantor by an overwhelming majority - almost two-thirds of the votes. M. Cantor replaces the outgoing interim president Ariel Muzikant, who was his opponent in these elections.
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From May 18-20, 2025 The Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) was held in Jerusalem to elect the new administration of the supreme body of international Jewry.
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Margot Friedlander, one of the most famous Holocaust survivors, died on Friday (9.5.2025) at the age of 103. She had returned to Germany after decades as an immigrant in New York to dedicate her life to raising awareness among young people about the crimes of the National Socialists.
"I speak on behalf of those who did not make it," Margot Friedlander said in an interview with public broadcaster ARD a few weeks ago, while tonight she was to be awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Her story has become more widely known through documentaries and her memoirs, and in recent decades she has been honored repeatedly - and at the highest level, such as by former US President Joe Biden.
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This year's "International March of the Living" (IMOTL), which took place on 24.4.2025 in Auschwitz, was honorably dedicated to the participation of 80 invited Holocaust survivors, symbolically for the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in 1945. 80 stories of persecution, anguish, survival and ultimately endurance, strength, creation, with the aim of preserving MEMORY.
Approximately 10.000 people, mainly young people, from 40 countries around the world participated in the March. The Greek delegation was represented by 8 young people from the ENE. The Remembrance and Life events were honored with their presence and participation by many officials, led by the Presidents of Israel and Poland, who particularly greeted the 80 survivors at a special event at Auschwitz I, before the March and the special ceremony at Auschwitz II (Birkenau).
The previous evening (April 23), as part of the events, there was a special ceremony for Yom HaShoah at the Krakow State Opera House with a memorial video, live music program and greetings with special reference to the release of the Hamas hostages, with two of the freed ones present. This was followed by the lighting of 6 candles for the 6 million Jews murdered in Nazi camps during the Holocaust.
Among the 80 survivors honored was Benjamin (Benis) Albalas, a hidden child in occupied Athens, President of the European March of the Living (EMOTL), Honorary President of the I.K. Athens and former President of KISE. He was awarded, like the other 79 survivors, a special commemorative medal of honor, crafted especially for the occasion.
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