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Azi, 9 noiembrie, oamenii din intreaga lume sarbatoresc Kristallnacht, pogromul Germaniei naziste din 9 noiembrie 1938 care marcheaza inceputul masacrelor impotriva everilor din Europa.
Azi in Ungaria, tara in care si-au pierdut viata 500.000 de evrei, la Auschwitz sau alte lagare de concentrare, antisemitismul este in crestere alaturi de miscarea de extrema dreapta, care a castigat 17% din voturi la recentele alegeri.

Redau mai jos materialul dat azi publicitatii de Centrul Simon Wiesenthal:

Today, people around the world commemorate Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany’s pogrom that took place on November 9, 1938 and marked the beginning of the destruction of European Jewry.

Today in Hungary, which lost half a million Jews, most of its Jewish population in Auschwitz and other concentration camps, anti-Semitism is on the rise along with a resurgent far-right movement that won 17% of the votes in recent elections.

Against this backdrop, Simon Wiesenthal Center Israel Director Dr. Efraim Zuroff finds himself on trial in Budapest in a lawsuit filed by an Hungarian Nazi war criminal responsible for the murder of hundreds of Jews.
In a first-person report for Wiesenthal.com, Dr. Zuroff explains that, “For the past 30 years, I have been actively involved in trying to facilitate the prosecution of Nazi war criminals, so it was quite upsetting to find myself in the dock 10 days ago in Budapest as the accused in a libel/defamation suit filed by one of the more important Holocaust perpetrators whom I have exposed and sought to bring to justice.” Dr. Zuroff continues… “The person in question, Dr. Sandor Kepiro,(pictured) was among a group of Hungarian army and gendarmerie officers who organized a mass murder of at least 1,250 innocent civilians (mostly Jews, the others Serbs and Roma) in the Serbian city of Novi Sad on January 23, 1942.

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