Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, the day we remember the point in history when large swathes of continental Europe decided to murder its Jewish citizenry, including most of my family. Ordinarily, on this day – January 27th, the anniversary of the date that Auschwitz was liberated in 1945 – I might consider with solemnity the slight figure of Tomi Reichental, the Dublin based Belsen survivor, now 88, who begins his address at the national commemoration: “I’m not here because of who I am. I am here because of what I am. I am a Jew”. The cadence of his Slovakian...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
