Yom HaShoah: Holocaust survivors against Gaza war say 'never again for anyone'

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Yom HaShoah: Holocaust survivors against Gaza war say ‘never again for anyone’

Survivors and descendants say official commemoration ignores outrage and accusations of genocide levelled at Israel over deaths of more than 51,000 Palestinians

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Agnes Kory, who was born in Hungary in 1944, said 'what was done to us as Jews should not be repeated against anybody else' (Simon Hooper/MEE)

Published date: 23 April 2025 13:51 BST | Last update: 5 hours 42 mins ago


Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors in the UK have said they feel a burden of responsibility to speak out against Israel’s continuing war in Gaza as Jewish communities mark Yom HaShoah - Israel’s day of remembrance for the six million Jews murdered by Nazi Germany.

This year’s Yom HaShoah, which begins on Wednesday evening, coincides with the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe in 1945, as well as the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by British forces.

Thousands of people, including a number of survivors and refugees who escaped to the UK from Nazi-occupied Europe, are set to attend an event in London later on Wednesday at the site of a proposed new Holocaust memorial close to the Houses of Parliament.

……But other survivors and descendants critical of the event have told Middle East Eye they object to how the memory of the Holocaust has been framed by the Israeli government and its supporters in the UK to justify the war in Gaza and say they fear Israel’s actions are inflaming antisemitism.

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