Shuttering ‘rabbit holes’ of hate: Holocaust survivors send powerful message in new documentary

Feb 15, 2023, at 10:44 pm

New York: Amid a recent spike in antisemitic violence across the world, the screening of legendary filmmaker Ken Burns’ latest documentary on Thursday highlighted a dark chapter in US history, and a frank high-level discussion at UN Headquarters showcased a proposed new code of conduct to shutter ‘rabbit holes’ of hate and online disinformation.

Holocaust remembrance: beware ‘siren songs of hate’ – UN chief

Jan 28, 2023, at 11:10 pm

New York: At a UN ceremony to mark the Holocaust on Friday, Secretary-General António Guterres warned that antisemitism, hate speech, and misinformation are ever-present, 90 years on from the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany.

Uyghur: British Jewish national target China on Holocaust Memorial Day

Jan 30, 2021, at 03:51 pm

London: A leading British Jewish national said there are chilling similarities between contemporary events in China’s northwest Xinjiang province and the Holocaust.

Portraits show ‘dignity and humanity’ of Holocaust survivors, 75 years after Auschwitz liberation

Jan 22, 2020, at 10:10 am

New York/IBNS: Seventy-five years ago, when soldiers of the Soviet army entered the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland, they were “stunned into silence” by what they saw, UN Secretary-General António Guterres recalled on Tuesday.

‘Leaders who sanction hate speech’ encourage citizens to do likewise, UN communications chief tells Holocaust remembrance event

Feb 01, 2019, at 08:55 am

New York, Feb 1 (IBNS): The Holocaust illustrates how easily “people can move from condoning brutality, to committing genocide” and shows that “leaders who sanction hate speech or make anti-Semitic or xenophobic slurs” are encouraging their own citizens “to do the same”, the UN’s head of Global Communications told leading members of the Jewish community at UN Headquarters in New York on Thursday.

Bigotry ‘moving at lightning speed’ Guterres warns, as UN marks the Holocaust

Jan 29, 2019, at 05:12 am

New York, Jan 29 (IBNS): Amid an “alarming increase” in anti-Semitism, International Holocaust Remembrance Day was commemorated at UN Headquarters in New York on Monday, honouring the memory of some six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust during World War Two, along with many other victims of what the UN chief called “unprecedented, calculated cruelty and horror”.

‘I feel guilty I survived;’ youngest Schindler’s list Holocaust survivor tells United Nations her story

Feb 01, 2018, at 02:29 pm

New York, Feb 1 (IBNS): More than seven decades after the end of the Holocaust, Eva Lavi – the youngest living Holocaust survivor saved by German industrialist Oskar Schindler – still feels guilty that she survived when so many of the Jewish children her age at that time were killed, including her cousins.

‘We are all at risk’ when humanity’s values are abandoned; UN honours memory of Holocaust victims

Jan 27, 2018, at 01:29 pm

New York, Jan 27 (JEN): Calling on the world to “stand together against the normalization of hate, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has stressed in his message for the International Day dedicated to honouring Holocaust victims that everyone has a responsibility to quickly and decisively resist racism and violence.