http://www.jpost. Swedish city cancels Holocaust event A
northern Swedish city has decided to cancel a planned Holocaust
Memorial Day torchlight procession due to the recent IDF offensive in
Gaza, it was reported Tuesday.
The official reason given for the decision, made by the
municipal board and local church in Lulea, was safety concerns, but Bo
Nordin, a clergyman and spokesman for the church, cited the war in
Gaza.
"It feels uneasy to have a torchlight procession to remember
the victims of the Holocaust at this time," Nordin told Swedish
National Radio. "We have been preoccupied and grief-stricken by the war
in Gaza and it would feel just feel odd with a large ceremony about the
Holocaust."
The decision drew fierce criticism from various organizations
as well as residents of the city, and a defiant group of Lulea locals
has decided to hold the torchlight procession anyway.
"To compare the Holocaust with Gaza is like comparing apples
with pears," said Inga-Lill Sundström, one the organizers of the
ceremony.
Meanwhile, Auschwitz survivors and state officials were
gathering to mark the 64th anniversary of the Nazi death camp's
liberation as part of worldwide Holocaust remembrance ceremonies.
The yearly commemoration, in the depth of the Polish winter,
marks the day the advancing Soviet army liberated the camp in 1945. The
anniversary has been established as an annual Holocaust remembrance day
by the United Nations.
More than 1 million people, mostly Jews, died in the camp's gas chambers or through forced labor, disease or starvation..
Tuesday's commemorations at Auschwitz include a wreath-laying
ceremony and prayers at the foot of the former camp's main memorial,
which stands between the twisted ruins of two crematoria.
Events elsewhere include a speech to the German parliament by
President Horst Koehler and a ceremony at the former Sachsenhausen
concentration camp outside Berlin. --
Memo: Yes, let's hear it for the Swedes!! My youngest son (Sr @UCLA) spent
last semester in Lund, Sweden and has applied for his Master there. I
think he likes the Swedes, and now I know why, they're obviously
intelligent, thinking people. God forbid their students might actually
learn something that's really happening, even if it's not Kosher...HEINZ
jpost.com staff and AP , THE JERUSALEM POST
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