BERLIN (JTA) – In a ballroom decorated with a giant Hanukkah menorah made of golden balloons, some 400 Holocaust survivors and their families gathered for the second annual “Holocaust Survivors’ Night.”
This second annual event, sponsored by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, was both festive and somber. Speakers
repeated concerns about recent polls showing that knowledge about the Holocaust is waning.
“We mustn’t forget to tell about what happened,” Roman Haller, director of the Claims Conference Successor Organization in Germany, said in remarks to the gathering, which was held at Berlin’s Jewish community center in former West Berlin. “But …read more
Source: JTA
