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Dani Dayan to visit Germany for first time

BY HARRY SIMONS

Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan will open a new exhibition in the Bundestag and meet German officials during International Holocaust Remembrance Day next week.

Dayan is traveling to Germany for the first time. The Yad Vashem presentation is entitled ‘Sixteen Objects’.

Dayan will also meet German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Finance Minister Christian Lindner, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, Opposition leader Joachim-Friedrich Martin Josef Merz and Jewish community leaders. Israel's Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor and Chairman of the German Society for Yad Vashem Kai Diekmann will also attend.

The exhibition marks Yad Vashem's seventieth anniversary. It features Holocaust-era items, one from each of the Federal States of Germany, whose stories are intertwined with Jews from across Germany.

“By connecting the personal stories of these objects with the current modern locations in Germany, the exhibition creates a bridge between the memory of the past to present and future societies," stated exhibition co-curators Ruth Ur and Michael Tal.

“The items presented, which are part of the Yad Vashem's collections are a reminder of the countless lives and communities destroyed by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.”

“I travel to Germany well aware of my deep responsibility to the past as well as my commitment, more than ever before, to ensuring a better future," said Dayan. “The weight of the memory of the six million mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, murdered less then eighty years ago simply because they were Jewish, is at the forefront of my responsibilities.

“At the same time, we are acutely aware of divisive antisemitic and xenophobic social

Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan

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elements currently at play in Germany and around the world. The exhibition features objects whose owners were persecuted and even exterminated by their own countrymen and have since found their home in the Jewish homeland, the State of Israel. Through these personal stories, we will ensure that the last wishes of the victims of the Holocaust are fulfilled, that the world will know who they were and why they were murdered."

The exhibition features archival items from Yad Vashem's collections juxtaposed with contemporary photos of the places from where they originally came.

“We hope that the objects and their local histories will spark interest and a new way of engaging with the past," added Tal.

The exhibition will be on display in the Paul-Löbe-Haus of the Bundestag for four weeks, then travel to Essen to be exhibited at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Zollverein before returning to Israel.

Dayan will visit the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin and lay a wreath in memory of Holocaust victims. He will also tour the Jewish Museum Berlin.

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Police investigate ‘Yiddo’ chants by Arsenal fans

BY DAVID SAFFER

The Community Security Trust and Action Against Discrimination have condemned racist threats made to a Jewish Arsenal fan watching last Sunday’s game against Tottenham Hotspur in a North London pub.

Katie Price, 26, and her non-Jewish friends, Lily O’Farrell and Jamie D’Souza were subjected to ‘Yiddo’ chants by fellow Arsenal supporters. All were shocked by the disturbing incident when Katie was called “a dirty f***ing y**.”

When she was asked to leave the pub there were chants of ‘Off you go’ and ‘Yiddo go home’.

Price reported the hate incident to the Metropolitan Police and CST.

CST has welcomed the pub apologising and stating they will ban the offenders.

CST’s Dave Rich noted: “This was an appalling example of unashamed racist abuse and threats directed at an Arsenal fan simply because she was Jewish and she had objected to the use of antisemitic language. The fact it came from her fellow Arsenal fans, and nobody else in the pub supported her, made it even worse.”

He added: “We have been supporting Katie, who has shown great courage in publicising her experience. We hope the offenders will be identified, arrested and banned from football.”

AAD has backed CST in stating that the use of the word in football has led to the abuse of Jewish people.

AAD has consistently campaigned against the continued use and chanting by Tottenham supporters of the ‘Y’ word and any derivation thereof, such as “Yiddo”, “Yid army” and “being a Yid”.

AAD chairman Jonathan Metliss said: “As AAD has always argued, the use of these expressions is extremely provocative and gives rise to antisemitic behaviour, as evidenced by this incident. AAD confirms its long-held position that the use of the ‘Y’ word and any derivation thereof should be banned and made illegal, as it is both abusive and an incitement to racial hatred.”

AAD has called on Tottenham Hotspur FC, the Government, Police, Crown Prosecution Service, Football Association and relevant football authorities not only to condemn this behaviour, but to take all appropriate action to stamp this out once and for all.

A Police spokesperson confirmed on Monday that the police had received a report regarding an anti-Semitic incident at the pub on Sunday.

“Officers have made an appointment to speak to the woman and will be progressing this,” they said.

Anyone with information is asked to call 101 and quote CAD3603/16Jan.

Prior to an apology the Pub manager reportedly said that security staff were not aware of an anti-Semitic context and had taken steps to de-escalate a regular fight.

He added: “Had we been aware at the time that racism was involved, we would have contacted the police immediately and had those responsible ejected from the pub. We have zero tolerance for racism and are now cooperating with police in Islington in their investigations.”

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