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Hungary vows zero tolerance of anti-Semitism at Jewish congress

Agence France-PresseMay 5, 2013 16:30

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) opened in Budapest Sunday with hundreds of representatives of worldwide Jewish communities in attendance, even as Hungary has come under fire for rising anti-Semitism. In a speech to some 500 delegates attending the meeting, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has been accused of turning a blind eye to recent racist incidents, insisted that anti-Semitism was "unacceptable and intolerable". "Hungary has a moral duty to have zero tolerance of anti-Semitism," he added.

Jewish body to meet in Hungary despite anti-Semitism

Agence France-PresseMay 1, 2013 22:15

Accused of presiding over growing anti-Semitism, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is unlikely to receive a standing ovation on Sunday when he addresses a World Jewish Congress meeting in Budapest. "The number of anti-Semitic or anti-Roma statements increased dramatically in recent years, and some of them have come from senior members of the prime minister's party or his government," WJC head Ronald Lauder said in a hard-hitting recent newspaper opinion piece.

Bells toll for Warsaw ghetto uprising 70 years on

Agence France-PresseApril 19, 2013 16:18

Sirens rang out and church bells tolled Friday as Poland marked the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising that saw young Jews take up arms against Nazi German forces. Hundreds of people including Holocaust survivors gathered at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, where Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski called the revolt a "fight for dignity". "But it was also an accusation of passivity and ineffectiveness of the whole free world, the world that could not bring itself to help."

Bells toll for Warsaw ghetto uprising 70 years on

Agence France-PresseApril 19, 2013 13:32

Sirens rang out and church bells tolled Friday as Poland marked the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising that saw young Jews rise up against Nazi German forces. Hundreds of people including Holocaust survivors gathered at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, where Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski called the revolt a "fight for dignity". "But it was also an accusation of passivity and ineffectiveness of the whole free world, the world that could not bring itself to help."

Bells toll for Warsaw ghetto uprising 70 years on

Agence France-PresseApril 19, 2013 08:31

Bells toll for Warsaw ghetto uprising 70 years on

Agence France-PresseApril 19, 2013 03:45

Sirens and church bells are set to ring across Warsaw Friday to mark 70 years to the day since hundreds of young, poorly armed Jews rose up against the Nazis in a doomed revolt. Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski will lead a ceremony at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, with thousands of people including Holocaust survivors due to attend. "The drama and the combat, this painful experience is part of both the Polish and Jewish traditions," the head of state said at a Holocaust-themed art opening ahead of the anniversary.

Bells toll for Warsaw ghetto uprising 70 years on

Agence France-PresseApril 18, 2013 22:00

Warsaw marks 70 years since ghetto uprising 'to save dignity'

Agence France-PresseApril 18, 2013 13:31

The young Jews who rose up against Nazi Germany "wanted to save human dignity", a Polish underground activist said Thursday on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Around 100 people were gathered at the Nozyk synagogue to pay tribute to the hundreds of poorly-armed Jews who took a stand against their occupiers in Europe's first urban anti-Nazi revolt. "They didn't want to save themselves," said Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, a resistance fighter, death camp survivor and ex-foreign minister.

Jewish life, not death, the focus of new museum in Poland

Thomson ReutersApril 18, 2013 11:45

By Dagmara Leszkowicz WARSAW (Reuters) - A new museum of Jewish history opens in Poland this week to refocus attention on a vibrant community that has lived in the country for centuries but whose history, for many, has been eclipsed by the Nazi death camps that nearly wiped them out. Every year some 1.5 million people visit Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp in southern Poland which has become a grisly emblem of the holocaust.

Warsaw marks 70 years since 'dignified' ghetto uprising

Agence France-PresseApril 18, 2013 10:01

Warsaw city authorities on Thursday recalled the ghetto uprising here 70 years ago as a doomed but "dignified" bid by hundreds of young poorly-armed Jews to throw off their Nazi German oppressors. "The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first instance of an urban revolt in Nazi-occupied Europe," the capital's city council said in a statement. "With no chance of success, it was a desperate act of choosing a dignified death with arms in hand, as well as a chance to take revenge on the oppressors by hundreds of fighters," it added.