Responsibility for the Holocaust

French MPs on June 24 approved a landmark deal with the United States in which France agreed to pay $60 million in overall compensation to foreign nationals deported to Nazi death camps on French trains in World War II.

The controversial Holocaust Memorial at the northern port city of Kavala was desecrated just two weeks after being inaugurated on June 7. The black marble monument at the site where 1,484 Jews were arrested and detained before being sent to death camps was covered in blue paint. The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece issued a statement:

Efraim Zuroff, one of the best known Nazi hunters, says it is "absurd" to compare the Holocaust and the Rwanda genocide with the crimes committed in Srebrenica.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Konstantinos Koutras made a statement regarding the desecration of a commemorative plaque dedicated to the death of 13,000 Greek Jewish Children murdered during the Holocaust. The memorial, next to a playground at Pafou Square, central Athens, was defaced with Nazi swastikas and Nazi SS signs.

Elfriede Rinkel's past as a Nazi concentration camp guard didn't keep her from collecting nearly $120,000 in American Social Security benefits.
     

By Harry van Versendaal

A large number of Greeks have limited awareness of the Holocaust or even hold anti-Semitic views, according to a new survey which traces the roots of attitudes to a strong sense of victimization among the public.

President Klaus Iohannis declared on Tuesday at the ceremony to decorate three Holocaust survivors that through all his endeavors he will seek to defend Holocaust victims' memory, mentioning that in the coming years he wishes that, in parallel with commemorating the victims of this phenomenon, those who proved human solidarity during the Second World War be known as well.

Alois Brunner, one of the world’s most wanted Nazi war criminals responsible for sending tens of thousands of Jews including 44,000 Greeks to death camps, died four years ago in Syria, it has emerged.

Germany will inaugurate the first national memorial to the estimated 300,000 ill and disabled people systematically murdered by the Nazis on Sept. 2, at a ceremony with victims' relatives.

City of Belgrade to start marking Holocaust Remembrance Day

BELGRADE -- The Belgrade City Assembly decided on Tuesday that May 10 will be marked as a remembrance day for the Holocaust victims in Belgrade.

The session on Tuesday underlined that Jews are an important part of the Serbian capital's history, its present and future, Tanjug reported.