I en villa utanför Berlin för 70 år sedan, den 20 januari 1942, slog 15 höga nazister fast planen för att utrota judarna överallt där Nazi-Tyskland kunde komma åt dem. Vilket betydde så gott som hela Europa och nordvästra Afrika.
70-årsdagen av Wannsee konferensen uppmärksammas i Jerusalem av en delegation kristna ledare från Tyskland och Österrike och som värd för evenemanget står ICEJ, den Internationella Kristna Ambassaden i Jerusalem.
German Christians to mark 70th anniversary of Wannsee at Yad Vashem (ICEJ NEWS)
"The Wannsee Conference was held on January 20, 1942 at a lakeside villa outside Berlin and was attended by 15 high-ranking Nazi bureaucrats who set in motion the implementation of a plan to eradicate the Jews of Europe. The meeting was convened by Reinhard Heydrich, assistant to deputy Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, who led a discussion on methods to be used for the systematic, industrial murder of all Jews within Germany’s reach. A chart compiled by Adolf Eichmann for the Wannsee Conference listed all of the estimated 11 million Jews of Europe and northwest Africa as potential targets.
“The Nazi officials who deliberated at Villa Wannsee over their ghastly plans for exterminating European Jewry were all well-educated, with at least half of them holding doctorate degrees. Some were also the sons of Protestant ministers, yet not one of them raised any moral objections to this heinous plot,” noted Dr. Jürgen Bühler, the Executive Director of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem. “We are here to continue the repentance of our nation for this enormous crime by those who committed mass murder in the name of a wicked ideology. The Church in Germany still has so much more to do to amend for our deafening silence in those dark days.”
Tyvärr finns antisemitismen fortfarande kvar i Europa. Läs mera här:
Déjà Jew (Jerusalem Post Magazine)
"The
term déjà vu brings to mind the English expression, been there, done
that. The odd sensation of reliving something for the second time
unnerves us precisely because it’s so convincingly familiar.
Over
the course of 2 months, I visited Jewish communities in the
Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, Belgium and the UK and
interviewed dozens of Jewish leaders as well as “laymen” – both Jews and
non-Jews. While attempting to determine the seriousness of contemporary
European Anti-Semitism, I experienced what I would term “déjà Jew” -
the peculiar sense that we, the members of Jewish people, are reliving
an experience from the past; that we have somehow time-traveled and are
now re-experiencing occurrences that are all too familiar.
From
the mid-1930s to early 1940s, Jews who recognized that they were no
longer safe in Europe anxiously sought refuge abroad. Sylvain Zenouda,
the co-founder and current vice president of the Bureau National de
Vigilance Contre l"Antisèmitism—an organization which monitors and
documents anti-Semitism in France—told me that educated young Jews in
France with the financial means to do so have either fled the country or
are making plans to flee. Again?..."
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