Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin French Graves Vandalised...
Graves have been desecrated in a Jewish cemetery in northeastern France, in the latest such attack in the region. Police said 27 tombstones were overturned, damaged and sprayed with anti-Semitic slogans between Sunday and Wednesday morning in Wolfisheim, a village not far from Strasbourg. A similar attack nearby in January coincided with the commemoration of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, while Muslims tombs were vandalised in the locality earlier in the summer. Local Jewish representatives said: “The perpetrators of this criminal act have taken away that which is most sacred to the human conscience.”
…as ‘Righteous Gentile’ Tomb is Daubed with Nazi Slogan
Further east, the grave of a Polish woman honored by the Holocaust museum Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations was graffitied with the words “Jews out” on the eve of an event in Warsaw to celebrate the Righteous Gentiles. Police are investigating the attack on the burial site of IrenaSendler, a Catholic social worker who saved 2,500 children in the Shoah by smuggling them out of the ghetto in suitcases and bins and keeping them under Church auspices until the war was over. Sendler died age 98 in 2008.
Ground Zero Architect to Design Berlin Structure
The architect who won the bid to redesign the World Trade Center site in Manhattan has agreed to work on a $13 million extension to the Jewish Museum in Berlin – the building that helps make his famous. Daniel Libeskind’s new annexe is expected to comprise three cube structures housing archives, a library and classrooms. The museum, which opened in 2001, is known for its dramatic and widely-acclaimed architecture, with the main building shaped as a shattered Star of David.
Stress Over English Nazi Impersonators
Jews and non-Jews are trying to come up with ways of stopping people dressed in Nazi uniform from infiltrating Second World War re-enactment events held in the UK. Rallies run by the East Lancashire Railway in the region around Manchester in England have caused anger after people were seen with Swastikas on their clothing. The annual event sees people dress up in wartime uniform, but Nazi clothes are officially banned. Andy Coward, general manager of the Railway, said he welcomed ideas for how to stop the impersonators, telling the London Jewish Chronicle: "I don't want our volunteers to get into lots of confrontations with a bunch of morons who insist on dressing up as the bad guys."
Irish Bitter for Sabras but Maccabi earn Goldstar
Tel Aviv soccer club Bnei Yehuda was knocked out of the Europa League after losing 1-0 at home to Irish opponents Shamrock Rovers on Thursday night and has missed out on the chance of playing Italian behemoth Juventus in the next qualifying round. Thomas Stewart broke Israeli hearts with the winner 20 minutes from the end of the match, giving the visiting side a 2-1 win as an aggregate of the two games between the clubs. In the same round, Maccabi Tel Aviv held on to beat Mogren from Montenegro and will now play tough Greek opponent Olympiacos. Hapoel Tel Aviv saw off Bosnia and Herzegovina side Željezniar to set up a match with Aktobe of Kazakhstan in qualification for the Champions League, Europe’s most prestigious club competition.
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