28 January 2026 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Category: Portrait
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Theodor Meron,
CMG (born 28 April 1930) is an American lawyer and judge. He served as a judge of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY),
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and the
International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism). He served as President of the ICTY four times (2002-2005 and 2011–2015) and inaugural President of the Mechanism for three terms (2012–2019).
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27 January 2026 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean
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Exodus 1947 after British takeover © National Photo Collection – Frank Scherschel
🔊 Listen to this Post Exodus 1947 was a
packet steamship that was built in the
United States in 1928 as
President Warfield for the
Baltimore Steam Packet Company . From her completion in 1928 until 1942 she carried passengers and freight across
Chesapeake Bay between
Norfolk, Virginia and
Baltimore ,
Maryland .
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13 January 2026 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General
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Vinnytsia is a
city in west-central
Ukraine , located on the banks of the
Southern Bug . It serves as the
administrative center of
Vinnytsia Oblast . It is the largest city in the historic region of
Podillia . It also serves as the administrative center of
Vinnytsia Raion , one of the six raions of Vinnytsia Oblast. It has a population of 356 379 (2025).
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9 November 2025 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean
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Balfour Declaration © British Library
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The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the
British Government in 1917 during the
First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in
Palestine , then an
Ottoman region with a small minority
Jewish population. The declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from
Arthur Balfour , the British
foreign secretary , to
Lord Rothschild , a leader of the
British Jewish community , for transmission to the
Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland . The text of the declaration was published in the press on 9 November 1917.
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9 November 2025 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General
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The Potsdam Synagogue Center is a building in
Potsdam ‘s city center for the local
Jewish community. It is located at Schloßstraße 8, opposite the Film Museum. Following the
Small Synagogue of the European Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam’s
New Palace , which opened in August 2021, this is the second new Jewish house of worship in Brandenburg’s state capital since the
Shoah .
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28 July 2025 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General , Paris / Île-de-France
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Mémorial de la Shoah is the
Holocaust museum in
Paris ,
France . The memorial is in the
4th arrondissement of Paris , in the
Marais district, which had a large Jewish population at the beginning of
World War II .
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24 April 2025 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General
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Gatehouse Auschwitz II (Birkenau) © Oleg Yunakov/cc-by-sa-4.0
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The March of the Living is an annual educational program which brings students from around the world to Poland, where they explore the remnants of the
Holocaust . On Holocaust Memorial Day observed in the Jewish calendar (
Yom HaShoah ), thousands of participants march silently from
Auschwitz to
Birkenau .
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27 January 2025 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , Miami / South Florida , Museums, Exhibitions
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The Holocaust Memorial of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation is a
Holocaust memorial at 1933-1945 Meridian Avenue, in
Miami Beach ,
Florida .
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25 December 2024 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Category: General , European Union , Portrait
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in 1982 © European Union
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Simone Veil was a French
magistrate ,
Holocaust survivor , and politician who served as
Health Minister in several governments and was
President of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1982, the first woman to hold that office. As health minister, she is best remembered for advancing
women’s rights in France, in particular for the 1975 law that legalized
abortion , today known as the
Veil Act (French: Loi Veil). From 1998 to 2007, she was a member of the
Constitutional Council , France’s highest legal authority.
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