Rivlin speaks opposite antisemitism in revisit to Greece

President Reuven Rivlin pronounced during rite laying a cornerstone for a Holocaust museum in Thessaloniki on Tuesday that a genocide “is not usually a matter of Jewish interest. It is something that concerns a whole world, and was a inhabitant difficulty for Greece.” The rite was attended by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Mayor of Thessaloniki Yannis Boutaris and a boss of a Jewish village of Greece and clamp boss of a World Jewish Congress, David Saltiel.

Rivlin is on a four-day revisit to Greece. In an residence during a Holocaust observance rite in Athens on Monday, Rivlin urged Jews in Greece to resolutely conflict a extremists “who disguise antisemitism underneath a guise of delegitimizing Israel.” “There is no such thing as amatory Israelis and hating Jews, or amatory Jews and hating Israelis,” Rivlin said.

Noting that Auschwitz has turn a pitch for a Holocaust, Rivlin underscored a obligation, not usually of a Jewish people and a State of Israel, to remember a atrocities that took place there.

Rivlin pronounced of a Polish legislation to outlaw job genocide camps on Polish dirt “Polish genocide camps”: “This preference is a sign that we are still gratified to quarrel for a memory of a Holocaust, as it happened.” “Research into a Holocaust contingency be free, open, and sincere. The avocation to remember is a avocation to recognize, to know, to try and know what happened – with a aim of ensuring ‘Never Again,’” he said.

Among those in assemblage were some of a final remaining Holocaust survivors in Greece, Itzik Mizen, 90, who survived Auschwitz-Birkenau; Frances Hogo, 90, who survived Bergen-Belsen; Fortunita Hananel Gani, 91, who survived Auschwitz-Birkenau; and David Moshe, 95, who survived Mauthausen.