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Thursday 28 January 2016
Holocaust victims honored 71 years after Auschwitz liberated
VANESSA GERA This year’s commemora- in our ‘civilized’ European of security previously felt anti-Semitism as a growing
Associated Press tions come as a resurgence Union,” Federica Mogh- by Europe’s largest Jewish number of people lash out
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — of anti-Semitism casts a erini, the European Union’s population. in fear at anyone they per-
Dozens of elderly Holo- shadow over a new gen- top foreign affairs represen- In Germany, where hun- ceive as different.
caust survivors lit candles at On Saturday, neo-Nazis pa-
Auschwitz on Wednesday, Israeli Ambassador to Hungary Ilan Mor lights a candle at the Victims’ Memorial Wall, during a raded in the center of the
exactly 71 years after the commemoration marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Holocaust Memorial English city of Newcastle
Soviet army liberated the Centre in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. The remembrance day coincides with doing Nazi salutes and car-
death camp that has be- the 71st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp. rying a banner that said:
come the most powerful “Refugees Not Welcome.
symbol of the human suf- (Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP) Hitler Was Right.”
fering inflicted by Nazi Ger- And late last year in Po-
many during World War II. eration of European Jews, tative, said in a statement. dreds of thousands of Mus- land, far-right extremists at
The commemoration at something that is driving Jewish immigration to Is- lim refugees have arrived an anti-migrant demonstra-
the former death camp in thousands of them each rael from Western Europe in the past year, Jews feel tion in Wroclaw burned the
southern Poland, an area year to leave the conti- grew last year due to a threatened from both the effigy of an Orthodox Jew.
under Nazi occupation nent. rise in anti-Semitic attacks. far right and people com- At a ceremony Wednes-
during the war, is part of “We must be honest Most — nearly 8,000 — ing from countries like Syria. day morning at the United
the U.N.-designated Inter- enough to admit that more were from France, where A rise in anti-Muslim hostil- Nations, Secretary-General
national Remembrance than 70 years after the Sho- Islamic extremist attacks ity amid the migrant crisis is Ban Ki-moon spoke out
Day, marked by politicians, ah, anti-Semitism is still alive have destroyed the sense — irrationally — also fueling against a “rising tide of
survivors and others in cer- anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim
emonies and events across bigotry and other forms of
the world. discrimination” around the
At Auschwitz some of world, and he used the
the survivors wore sashes occasion to once again
or scarves that recalled call for all parties in Syria’s
the striped pajama-style conflict to allow the unim-
clothing that prison- peded delivery of aid to
ers were forced to wear. millions.
They placed candles and “Starvation as a weapon of
wreaths at a wall where war and the deliberate tar-
many prisoners were ex- geting of civilians is a war
ecuted before gathering crime,” he said.
with the presidents of Po- World Jewish Congress
land and Croatia for official president Ronald Lauder
ceremonies. said in a statement sent
The Nazis killed more than to The Associated Press:
1 million people at Aus- “Many anti-Semites and
chwitz, most of them Jews Holocaust deniers are not
but also Roma, non-Jewish afraid any more to spread
Poles and others. their hateful messages.
EU probe finds serious problems in Greek border control
LORNE COOK prise inspections by expert external border in Greece.” home in wealthy EU coun- But if the EU’s executive
Associated Press teams in Greece, including The government in Athens tries like Germany or Swe- Commission rules that
BRUSSELS (AP) — A Eu- on its Aegean islands near has three months to fix the den. Greece has demonstrated
ropean Union investiga- the coast of Turkey, found problems. The report is important be- “serious deficiencies in car-
tion found major flaws in that Greek authorities were More than 850,000 people cause Germany has tem- rying out external border
Greece’s border manage- failing to properly register are thought to have en- porarily reintroduced bor- control,” countries like Ger-
ment that could pave the and fingerprint people or tered Greece last year der controls in its part of many, Austria and Sweden
way for other EU nations to correctly check their travel seeking sanctuary or jobs the passport-free Schen- could possibly keep their
isolate Athens and intro- papers. in Europe but Greece gen area until May 13 after border controls on for up
duce long-term ID checks The EU’s top migration offi- only has shelter for about around 1 million people ap- to two years. EU nations
to restrict the entry of mi- cial, Dimitris Avramopoulos, 10,000 people. The Greek plied for asylum in Germa- would have to vote in fa-
grants further into the con- said Wednesday that their coast guard is simply over- ny last year. Beyond that vor of the move by around
tinent. “report shows that there whelmed, and thousands date, Berlin has no legal a two-thirds majority, but
Backing up the suspicions are serious deficiencies in of migrants have moved means of maintaining ID Greece alone could not
of several EU nations, sur- the management of the north, hoping to find a checks. stop them.q
