Yom HaShoah

The Vatican reversed its decision and is sending a representative to today’s memorial services in Israel.

Ynet has published a page of photographs of unidentified Polish Jews, most of whom are probably victims of the Nazis. Story here. Photos here.

Convictions of Nazis are up, even though many European nations have actively refused to go after the Nazis in their midst, aided and abetted by the Jew-haters in the Middle East.

The report notes that Sweden and Norway refuse to investigate Nazi war criminals due to a statute of limitations, faults Syria for ignoring the issue, and blasts the Lithuanian and Latvian governments for failing to deal with the issue, primarily due to a lack of requisite political will.

Other countries that were cited for poor performances on the issue include Australia, Croatia, Estonia, Great Britain and Ukraine.

The report also listed the 10 most wanted Nazi war criminals, and their whereabouts, if known.

Topping the list is Alois Brunner, a key operative for Adolf Eichmann who was responsible for the deportations of tens of thousands of Jews to death camps. Convicted in absentia by France, he has been living in Syria for decades.

And that’s about all I can take for today. Well, except for this:

A third of Holocaust survivors living in Israel are poor, the Holocaust Survivors’ Welfare Fund reported this week. According to the fund, some 80,000 of the 260,000 survivors in the country live under the poverty line.

In addition to their grim financial situation, the survivors are also more prone to suffer from unique physical and medical problems related
to the malnutrition and severe hardships they had experienced during the war years. Dental, hearing and eyesight problems are more common among survivors as well.

Many of the survivors suffer from mental distress and loneliness, and lack proper social and family support networks. Some 50,000 to 60,000 survivors are in need of some level of nursing, as 73 percent of this population is over the age of 76, and about a fifth is over 86.

The Europeans are happy to fund the suicide bombers in Gaza and the West Bank (by proxy, of course), but they won’t give another dime to the people whose homes they stole, whose belongings they thieved, whose families they murdered, and whose illnesses they caused. Because they’re tired of hearing about the Holocaust already. That’s all right. They’ll all be dead soon, and the Europeans can go back to thinking that they did their best for those ungrateful Jews.

Yeah, I don’t think I’m going to be posting much more today.