HOLO HOODOO

 

German carnival upsets Jews

 

German Jews furious as carnival falls on International Holocaust Day
AFP Wednesday, 23 January 2008

BERLIN — Jewish leaders in Germany on Tuesday condemned
a decision to hold the annual Munich carnival on Sunday,
which will see it coincide with International Holocaust®
Remembrance Day.

CHARLOTTE KNOBLOCH*:
Head of the Central Council
of Jews in Germany

"It is an insult to the victims of the Holocaust® whose memory
should be honored on this day," the vice-president of the
Central Council of Jews, Salomon Korn, said in a statement.

Fellow vice-president Dieter Graumann said the decision by
local authorities in the Bavarian capital to hold the carnival on
January 27 was "thoughtless and tasteless."

The head of the Council, Holocaust® survivor' Charlotte Knobloch,
charged that the memory of the six million [sic] Jews who were
systematically murdered by the Nazis during World War II was
being "dishonored."

International Holocaust Remembrance Day falls on the anniversary
of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp on January 27, 1945, by the Red Army.

Carnivals are held in towns and cities across Germany before the
Christian season of Lent.

Sunday’s procession through the streets of Munich is expected to draw some 20,000 spectators.

*Knobloch < Ger. Knoblauch = "garlic"

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