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Protest – CERMAT
Vážený pane, obracíme se na Vás jako na činitele odpovědného za činnost CERMATu s důrazným protestem proti zařazení básně R. Malého „Vraní zpěvy“ do maturitního didaktického testu z českého jazyka a literatury. Báseň obsahuje ve svém závěru větu „je v tobě Žida půl a půlka esesáka“. Takový je možná po návštěvě koncentračního tábora pocit pisatele, ale členové české a moravské židovské komunity mají ve spojení se stejnými místy zcela jiné asociace: Byla to místa hromadného vraždění jejich nejbližších, místa nezměrné bolesti, kde bylo zcela jasné, kdo je obětí a kdo vrahem….
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Protest – CERMAT
Vážený pane, obracíme se na Vás jako na činitele odpovědného za činnost CERMATu s důrazným protestem proti zařazení básně R. Malého „Vraní zpěvy“ do maturitního didaktického testu z českého jazyka a literatury. Báseň obsahuje ve svém závěru větu „je v tobě Žida půl a půlka esesáka“. Takový je možná po návštěvě koncentračního tábora pocit pisatele, ale členové české a moravské židovské komunity mají ve spojení se stejnými místy zcela jiné asociace: Byla to místa hromadného vraždění jejich nejbližších, místa nezměrné bolesti, kde bylo zcela jasné, kdo je obětí a kdo vrahem….
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Terezínská tryzna
V neděli 19. května 2013 se na Národním hřbitově před Malou pevností v Terezíně uskuteční tradiční vzpomínková akce k uctění obětí nacistické perzekuce – Terezínská tryzna. Akci organizuje Ústřední výbor Českého svazu bojovníků za svobodu spolu s Památníkem Terezín a spolupořadateli: Ústeckým krajem, Městem Terezín, Federací Židovských obcí v ČR a Terezínskou iniciativou. Záštitu nad konáním Terezínské tryzny 2013 převzala ministryně kultury ČR Alena Hanáková. Po nástupu čestné stráže a hudby bude tryzna v 10 hodin zahájena…
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Pupil In The Protectorate – A New Project Terezín Memorial
From the Jewish Community of Brno >> Schoolboy project in the Protectorate on the idea for young people and adults the reality of the totalitarian regime in Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the example with which either encounter every day, or have met in the past – in the school environment. Its main goal is to bring the youth in particular, to compare the present situation with the practices of the totalitarian regime and the awareness of the value of democracy. In addition to showing the general situation in the Protectorate Education project also works with concrete manifestations more »
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Macedonia, Bulgaria Attempt to Improve Relations
From SETimes >> In an effort to mend fences months after Bulgaria blocked Macedonia’s EU entrance, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov invited his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski to Sofia. Borisov said that Skopje can count on Bulgarian support on its road to EU and NATO, and expressed interest in discussing economic topics, such as the construction of the Sofia-Skopje-Tirana highway. So far, however, there has been no response from Skopje to Borisov’s invitation. The relationship between the two countries further soured after the premiere of the Macedonian movie and Oscar award nominee “Third Half,” which illustrates Bulgaria’s participation in the Holocaust. more »
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Burgas Report Blaming Hezbollah the Talk of Bulgaria
From Novinite >> Bulgaria’s investigatory report placed the blame squarely on Hezbollah for the murders of five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver last July. Since the disclosure on Tuesday by the Bulgarian interior minister, the country’s media has been saturated with coverage of the findings. In a series of interviews with The Jerusalem Post over the past few days with media experts, journalists and a top Jewish leader, a diverse picture of reactions has emerged. Solomon Bali, president of the B’nai B’rith Carmel lodge in Sofia, said, “I was not surprised by Hezbollah” being identified as the agent more »
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President Áder Writes to Hungarian Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day
From Politics HU >> President Janos Ader has addressed a letter to the Hungarian Jewish community, telling them that the act of commemorating the victims of the death camps meant recognizing that “any of us could have been among the innocent victims.” “Death camps are the evidence of an atrocity. The Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp liberated on January 27, 1945, has for 68 years given proof of the painful end-game of European history’s darkest aberration,” the president said in the letter posted on Jewish organisation Mazsihisz’s website late on Sunday, marking Holocaust Remembrance Day. “For we Hungarians this day is not more »
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Navracsics Explains Hungary’s Position On Racism In State Visit To Washington
From politics.hu >> From time to time the Hungarian government must explain its position to those that debate it, deputy Prime Minister Tibor Navracsics told daily Magyar Hirlap on Wednesday, commenting on his current US visit. Navracsics, who is also the Minister of Public Administration and Justice, visited the Holocaust Museum on Tuesday and attended an award ceremony at the Lantos Human Rights Commission. He met Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Phil Gordon and Democrat Senator Ben Cardin, the chair of the Helsinki Commission. Navracsics told the paper that he discussed with Gordon the situation of more »
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Romanian Minister Who Denied Holocaust Visits U.S. Museum
From the JTA >> Dan Sova, who was appointed minister for parliamentary relations in August despite protests by Jewish groups, made the statement Monday, a day after International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in a letter he sent to Romanian Jewish organizations, the website of the B1 television network reported. “I express my full sympathy for the victims and families of those who had suffered so much from the Nazi regime and remain firmly involved in efforts to combat anti-Semitism,” the letter reportedly read. Continue Reading: SOURCE
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Israel PM Netanyahu to Visit the Czech Republic and Germany
From the Yeshiva World News Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara on Wednesday, 21 Kislev 5773 will leave for the Czech Republic and Germany. In the morning, Prime Minister Netanyahu will meet in Prague with Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas and will personally thank him for the Czech Republic’s brave stand alongside Israel against the PA (Palestinian Authority) unilateral move at the UN. In the afternoon, the Prime Minister and his entourage will depart for Berlin. On Thursday (22 Kislev), the prime minister will meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in the context of the fourth meeting between more »
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