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From May 18-20, 2025 έγινε στην Ιερουσαλήμ η Συνέλευση της Ολομέλειας του Παγκοσμίου Εβραϊκού Συνεδρίου (WJC) για την εκλογή της νέας διοίκησης του ανωτάτου οργάνου του διεθνούς Εβραϊσμού.
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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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It was 1910 when, in the city of Nancy, France, a Jewish family from Lorraine, whose traces were lost in the depths of the 17th century, welcomed its new member.
Alex Mayer grew up in Lineville, where he later developed a commercial activity, while at the age of 20 he served his military service in Algeria.
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In a statement, the European Jewish Congress (EJC) congratulated Friedrich Merz and the Christian Democratic Party CDU on their victory in the German elections.
At the same time, as the statement states, "we support the concerns of the Central Jewish Council of Germany and express our deep concern about the election results, especially the fact that one in five voters supported the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The significant rise of a party with a history of extremism, xenophobia and Holocaust denial, with some of its members openly engaging in anti-Semitic rhetoric, is worrying. The growing influence of the AfD is a serious challenge to democratic values in Germany and across Europe.
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