Statement/January 27th, 2012

The Message of January 27

The world has yet to fully grasp the lessons of the Holocaust – By Dieter Graumann

It has taken decades for the international community to deal with the Shoah in a really serious way. Perhaps a new generation had first to emerge with sufficient courage to ask about the causes of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question in Europe” and to look into the abyss of its inconceivable barbarity. Today, Holocaust commemorations have become an integral part of political culture, at least in Western democracies. In November 2005, the General Assembly of the United Nations established the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and fixed its date on January 27 – the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. This year marks its sixth commemoration.

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Press release/October 12th, 2011

Gilad Shalit to be released! – Joy and gratitude in Germany’s Jewish community

"The Central Council and the whole Jewish community of Germany have received with great relief, joy, and gratitude the announcement of the release of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit abducted by Hamas five years ago while doing his military service," said the President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Dr. Dieter Graumann as a first reaction.

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Media service of the Central Council of Jews in Germany: Jewish immigration

Judaism, Jewish life in Germany, and current issues that are of interest to the Jewish community as well as to the entire German public are topics that are regularly covered by the German media. In order to contribute to the information flow on these topics, the Central Council of Jews in Germany provides its media service. This issue of the media service gives an account of Jewish immigration from the USSR that began after the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago.

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