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Holocaust Awareness Ireland

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Connecting the Holocaust to contemporary culture & the politics of our time. Run by Oliver Sears, London born-Dublin based, whose mother Monika is a Holocaust survivor. Twitter/X @Holocaust_Irl

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Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · Aug 16

Eternal thanks to Oprah Winfrey who described
‘The Objects of Love’ exhibition as “powerful and inspiring” when she previewed it at the 92nd Street Y, New York.
My family story, told through a curated collection of precious objects, photographs & documents that survived the Holocaust.
Oliver Sears

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Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks Billy, this iteration should be interesting...

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My family exhibition The Objects of Love, first shown at
at Dublin Castle and @92ndstreety.bsky.social NY
opens at the Radogoszcz Museum, Łódź, Poland on 5th Oct 2025.

Radogoszcz was previously a notorious Gestapo detention centre. It was here that my grandfather, Pawel Rozenfeld was detained.

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Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · 14d

Below, I question Paul Kearns' (Irish Times journalist & self-described "Israeli Dad") understanding of the make up & psychopathology of Israeli society as well as his grasp of the complexities of intergenerational Holocaust trauma.
His article: bit.ly/3IyXYX0

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 17d

On this day in 1939, Reinhard Heydrich issued an order to the chiefs of the Einsatzgruppen stating that Jews in Poland were to be concentrated in large towns and cities near railway lines, known as the Schnellbrief

Learn more about Nazi ghettos and camps via our educational site 🔗

Why did the Nazis develop ghettos? – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools

A map showing the major ghettos established by the Nazis between 1939 and 1945.

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Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · 20d

Conor Pope's recent article in The Irish Times on boycotting Israeli products uses language worthy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

He platforms Steve Wall whose fanaticism promotes antisemitic lies including Israelis harvesting the organs of 'live' Palestinians.

HAI Statement:

Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you Billy, very much appreciate that. Best, Oliver

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Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social · Sep 4

Justice at last

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Old master painting looted by Nazis recovered a week after being spotted in Argentinian property listing

Portrait of a Lady by the Italian master Giuseppe Ghislandi handed over by daughter of the late Nazi financier Friedrich Kadgien

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Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · Sep 6

A rare treat, Simon Sebag Montefiore in Limerick.
One of Britain’s leading historians, with a family story tied to Limerick itself. This is history not to be missed

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Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · Sep 2

2/ taking & mock paramilitaries as well as state authority. They embody gleeful defiance for a generation that views the Troubles as history." bit.ly/47VLlPW

‘Our name is dirt’: how stigma of kneecapping haunts one Northern Ireland family

Rap trio Kneecap may be subverting the word, but the psychological wounds are still raw for victims of shootings and their families

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Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · Sep 2

1/ "The group Kneecap have reclaimed the word, but for the McCabes, & many other families affected by so-called punishment violence, kneecapping retains its original meaning, connoting pain, terror & stigma... Kneecap has subverted the term by adopting the personas of hoods who celebrate drug-

Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · Aug 27

The Iranian regime is the most malign actor in the Middle East, calling for the destruction of Israel, targeting Jews worldwide & spreading Holocaust denial - not out of solidarity for Palestinians but for regional hegemony.

Why does the Irish Gov embrace this regime so warmly?

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Iran directed arson attacks in Australia and ‘fanned the flames’ of antisemitism, country’s spy chief says

Iranian ambassador expelled from Canberra as Albanese government announces it will list IRGC as terrorist organisation

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Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · Aug 23

Wonderful to see the great Elie Wiesel honoured in this way.

I had the extraordinary privilege of meeting him some years ago and experiencing the legendary firm grip of his handshake. A gesture that spoke volumes without a word.

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New US Postal Service stamp honors Holocaust survivor and humanitarian Elie Wiesel

The Wiesel stamp, which is set to be released on Sept. 17, features a 1999 black-and-white photo of Wiesel by Sergey Bermeniev along with his name and the word 'Humanitarian.'

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · Aug 23

23 August 1942 | A transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy arrived at Auschwitz. SS doctors selected 892 of them to be murdered in gas chambers.

Among them was Majta Rubin. She was a Polish Jewish woman who had emigrated to France. She was killed together with her daughters: Bella & Micheline.

A collage of three vintage black and white photographs. Top left: An individual seated on a beach with a small child and striped beach tents in the background, with a grand building visible. Top right: A close-up portrait of a girl with curly hair. Bottom: A photo of a young girl sitting with a slightly blurred expression.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · Aug 17

17 August 1942 | Irène Némirovsky, a French-language novelist born in the family of Russian Jews, died of typhus after a month of imprisonment in the German Nazi #Auschwitz camp. She was 39.
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A portrait photo of Irene Nemirovsky, holding a copy of "Les Nouvelles Littéraires" and smiling at the camera.

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Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · Aug 17

2/ in Sudan or Yemen? Or that Irish people of Chinese heritage shoulder a collective burden for the mass incarceration of Uyghurs?" www.independent.ie/opinion/hila...

Hilary A White: Don’t burden Irish Jews with guilt over Gaza

As part of research for a book project, I took a deep dive into an extraordinary Dublin family. The Solomons household is what you might call a treasure trove of distinction.

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Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · Aug 17

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Thank you @hawhitek.bsky.social.

So well articulated, & such courage, in this country, to stand up & speak out.

"It boils down to a treatment we reserve for Jews that no other ethnic minority elicits. Do we insist Muslims born in Ireland speak out more loudly against humanitarian disasters

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Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · Aug 11

My letter in today’s Irish Times in response to Sonia Harris Pope’s ahistorical, ill considered article, accusing Jews who do not speak out sufficiently against Israel of complicity.

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Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · Aug 4

How much more do the Uyghers have to suffer in order to be even noticed by the Irish Gov & media who are so fixated on self-righteous moralising over Israel?

So much easier to demonise Jews than risk business interests with China.

I think that is how you spell hypocrisy.

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Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · Aug 4

Good to see my wife Catherine's letter in The Irish Times last week calling out the double standards in Irish media & the hypocrisy, witting or unwitting among the Irish commentariat whose ignorance on the complexities of antisemitism is profound.

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Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · Aug 4

2/ accusations of our indifference to the suffering in Gaza, millions of Israeli & diaspora Jews have been calling for an end to the war since it began, but that truth doesn’t fit the media narrative.

Stop lecturing Jews on morality & get your own house in order.

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Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · Aug 4

1/ Two letters in last week's Irish Times demonstrate stultifying ignorance about Jews, promoted by a one sided media narrative.

Jews are no more responsible for the actions of the Israeli Gov than Catholics are responsible for the crimes of the Catholic Church. But in spite of

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Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · Jul 8

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‘Anti-Zionism’ has become the new Antisemitism in Ireland

Oliver Sears is the founder of Holocaust Awareness Ireland. ‘Irish politicians line up to be photographed with the community on Holocaust Memorial Day,’ he writes, ‘But those same politicians w...

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Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · Jul 8

In response to Fintan O'Toole's historically limited piece in
the Irish Times today, I suggest reading my @fathomjournal.bsky.social article, which gives a comprehensive overview of antisemitism in Ireland over the past 100 yrs.

The omissions in his article reveal a starkly different reality.

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Holocaust Awareness Ireland @holocaustireland.bsky.social · Jul 7

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Sexual violence was rife on October 7, say new witnesses

Previously unheard testimony reveals that victims were stripped, raped and shot by Hamas fighters who attacked Israel

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