WJC News Update – Sir Nicholas Winton, British savior of children during the Holocaust, celebrates 105th birthday

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 20 May 2014

British savior of children during Holocaust celebrates 105th birthday

Sir Nicholas Winton, a Briton who at the outbreak of World War II organized mass evacuations of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, has turned 105.

Burgas bombing investigation completed soon, Bulgarian leader tells Jerusalem forum

“I perceive that soon we will be able to bring to justice those who are to be blamed for this terrorist act,” Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski said in a speech in Jerusalem.

Expected far-right surge in European elections raises worries – JTA

20 May 2014 Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, told JTA that he is worried about “a surge in the number of extremist, racist and anti-Semitic lawmakers in Strasbourg and Brussels.” READ MORE »

Museum in Elie Wiesel’s pre-war home expands – Tablet

20 May 2014 New ‘Holocaust Cellar’ is the first public learning center of its kind in Romania READ MORE »

Poll: Three out of four French Jews mull leaving France – JTA

20 May 2014 The survey results released Monday by the Siona organization of Sephardic French Jews, encompassed 3,833 respondents from the Jewish community of France. READ MORE »

Latin American priests on interfaith mission to Israel visit Syrian war victims at Israeli hospital

19 May 2014 On a six-day mission to Israel, an interfaith group of Latin American clergy visited Ziv Medical Center, donating supplies to Syrian patients wounded in the civil war and evacuated to this Israeli hospital. READ MORE »