Dublin - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970
Thursday January 01 1970
Irish Holocaust Memorial Day
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Tuesday December 16, 2003 19:08
by pat c
The Holocaust Commemoration will take place in City Hall , Dublin, on Sunday 25 January, along with Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, members of the Roma and black communities, representatives of disabled people in Ireland and those with mental health illnesses, trade unionists , communists and members of the LGBT community will participate.
Rachel Armstrong, Assistant Editor of GCN and Tadgh O'Brien, LGBT USI Officer will light candles in memory of those who were shot, gassed and experimented on in death camps, concentration camps, prisons and in towns and cities across Europe because they did not "fit" the Aryan ideal. An estimated 60,000 Gays were among the Holocaust victims.
The Commemoration is organised by the Holocaust Memorial Committee of ireland which organised an event last year due to the failure of the government to do so.
Lynne Jackson,coordinator of the event is determined that an "Irish commemoration should include all the victims of the third reich".
* Time of event to be confirmed.
(news source: GCN, December 2003)
Comments (8 of 8)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8I thought you meant the real Irish holocost of 1845 when the filthy mudering brits allowed 1.5million I rish people to starve to death, also more sweetly known as the "famine" a cosy word for deliberate genocide. Strange that the Irish wont comemorate this though.
It is disgusting that one of the groups most persecuted during World War Two, the Orthodox Christians who lived under the Utasha. At least 200,000 and anything up to 1,000,000 people, in the most case Serbian Orthodox Christians and also Muslims from Bosnia, were murdered in what should be considered part of the holocaust. to ignore the memory of these people, especially when representatives of the other 'communities' who did not suffer to any great or deliberate extent in World War Two are included.
This is part of a peculiar form of revisionism which continually seeks to understimate or often times ignore the suffferings of the Serbs under the German installed Croatian NDh government during World War Two. If more people had a knowledge of the Serb sufferings in WWII they could have sevre doubts about the wisdom of the EU giving recognotion to an independent Croatia heavily backed by Germany
a link to as of yet officially unpublished European Report on Anti-Semitism.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasite/images/iht_daily/D281103/eu_anti_semitism_report.rtf
Will ye also be commemorating all the Palestinians slaughtered and driven from their homeland because they didn't fit the Zionist ideal ?
Or will ye just play it safe and tow the politically correct line dictated to ye by the "holocaust industry" ?
When we remember the Holocaust we remember all the millions of innocents that died at the hands of the Nazi.
But In remembering the Holocaust we do not forget any group any nationality any religion, it is a focus for all of us to remember what is close to us what is important to us and to say we must not let this happen any where to anyone ever again.
'deliberate genocide' / 'filthy murdering brits' ?? think the green flag is wrapped a bit too tightly around you. remember Omagh, Birmingham, Warrington, Gilford...
the incidents you mention were terrible. but they pale in comparison to 800 years of oppression. yes, the famine was deliberate genoicide. food was exported while people starved. the brits applied the same policies throughout the empire, particularly in india where tens of millions died of famine in the 19th century while food was exported and moved around the sub-continent for the gain of speculators.
Genocide is going on today in Palestine, especially in Gaza where around 30-40% of children are suffering malnutrition. Israel exports food to Europe, and blocks the Palestinians from harvesting and carrying the food they produce themselves to their own towns, cities and markets. Fish rot in the sun at checkpoints, vegetables turn to mush, cargo terminals are endlessly shut down for "security concerns." All this while valuable agricultural lands and ancient orchards are bulldozed throughout Palestine for a network of massive ugly walls and fences that is turning the once-Fertile Crescent into a desert, and bringing state-induced famine to a people who only want their own land and the right to live on it and work it.
The current Israeli government shamelessly absorbs the cruelest tactics of the Nazis, Stalinists, Brits, Romans and any other imperialist role-model for their brutal repression of the Palestinian people. A few hundreds (mainly occupation forces) lost to a few desperate suicide-bombers is no excuse for wiping out an entire population of innocents. Justice must come first, then peace, and only then will security be within reach.
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