Survivor Speakers Bureau - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 10 Apr 2024 22:18:55 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Survivor Speakers Bureau - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Holocaust Survivor Speakers Bureau launched to fight antisemitism https://cathnews.co.nz/2024/04/11/jewish-group-launches-holocaust-survivor-speakers-bureau-to-fight-increasing-antisemitism/ Thu, 11 Apr 2024 05:55:56 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=169585 More than 250 Holocaust survivors have joined an international initiative to share their stories of loss and survival with students around the world during a time of rising antisemitism following the Oct 7 Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the war in the Gaza Strip. The Survivor Speakers Bureau was launched Thursday by the New Read more

Holocaust Survivor Speakers Bureau launched to fight antisemitism... Read more]]> More than 250 Holocaust survivors have joined an international initiative to share their stories of loss and survival with students around the world during a time of rising antisemitism following the Oct 7 Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the war in the Gaza Strip.

The Survivor Speakers Bureau was launched Thursday by the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, also called the Claims Conference.

"A Holocaust survivor speakers bureau of this scale and reach is unprecedented," said Gideon Taylor, the president of the Claims Conference. "At a moment of dramatically rising antisemitism, this program tells the history and educates for the future."

The Nazis and their collaborators killed six million European Jews and people from other minorities during the Holocaust.

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