French officials paid their respects at a Jewish cemetery near Strasbourg, where 37 tombstones and a monument to Holocaust victims had been defaced with swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti in the same week that a deadly attack that shook the nation.
Germany has agreed to one-time payments for survivors, primarily Jews, who were evacuated from Nazi Germany as children, many of whom never saw their parents again.
The New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany said the government had agreed to payments of 2,500 Euros ($2,800) to those still alive from among the 10,000 people who fled on the so-called “Kindertransport”.
In the not-too-distant future there will be no survivors left to tell us of the horrors they endured, or the triumph of survival, or even the mundane minutiae that is so rarely acknowledged. What they will have left behind is, of course, extraordinary. In volume. In breadth. In depth. Countless words, many of them assembled into great works of literature, others into more modest efforts, written down so that their families might know.
A street in Yerevan was renamed for Raphael Lemkin. Deputy Mayor of Yerevan, Sergey Harutunyan, said that Lemkin left considerable legacy in the world history. Lemkin coined the term “genocide”.