Salaspils, Latvia: A man carries flowers to lay at a memorial for the approximately 30,000 people who died at the nazi concentration camp in the town. The remains of some of the site’s victims are marked by a series of simple concrete memorials. Photo: Ints Kalniņš/Reuters.
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Several thousands anti-racism protesters have rallied in Macerata, Italy one week after a far-right extremist shot and wounded at least six people, five men and one woman, in a racially motivated attack. Pictured above are demonstrators of Florence’s Anti-Racism Network holding a banner saying “nobody is clandestine”. Photo: AFP/Tiziana Fabi.
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The 1938 racial laws barring Jewish people from public life are an “indelible stain” on Italy’s history that must never be repeated, President of Italy Sergio Mattarella said Thursday ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday. “The racial laws represent a dark chapter, an indelible stain, an infamous page in our history”, he said at a ceremony at the Quirinal Palace.
In a decree issued last Friday, Mattarella himself, on the basis of article 59 of the Italian Constitution, appointed Liliana Segre, 87 – one of the few Italian Jews who survived Auschwitz – as Senator for Life for very high merits in the social field. |
Decree appointing Liliana Segre as Senator for Life signed by the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella. Photo: Senato Repubblica (@SenatoStampa).
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Thousands of people joined an anti-fascist and anti-racist march staged by the Democratic Party, in Como, Italy, on Saturday, December 9, 2017. The march was organized in response to a far-right group from Northeast Italy which last week rushed an aid charity meeting in the town, denouncing “the migrant invasion”. Photo: EPA.
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Referring to Hungary’s collaboration with the nazis, the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán (R.), has greeted his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu (L.), who is in Budapest on a controversial visit: “We decided in world war two, instead of protecting the Jewish community, to cooperate with the nazis. This will never happen again”. Photo: Balázs Moha/EPA.
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Widely shared photo shows 16-year-old Lucie Myslíková standing up to a rightwing demonstrator in Brno. Myslíková was one of a number of scouts who joined counter-protesters at a May Day rally held by neo-Nazis on Monday in the Czech Republic’s second biggest city. Photo: Vladimir Čičmanec.
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Buchenwald, Germany: Nazi concentration camp survivor Alexander Bytschok of Kiev, Ukraine, mourns during the commemoration ceremonies for the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar. Photo: Jens Meyer/AP.
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It’s not a breaking news story, so you won’t hear anyone telling it in a press conference. Marcus Paulus Venetus & Arcovazzi were marching in the direction of Via della Rabbia (Anger Street) to vehemently protest their alleged exclusion from the Xmas Dinner party organised in favour of poor people and disadvantaged groups. Unluckily, that day there was a bus strike.
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