(2 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
CLAIMS CONFERENCE
Duesseldorf, Germany – April 2024
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1. SOUNDBITE (German) Herbert Rubinstein, 88, Holocaust survivor:
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"I lived through the Holocaust. Six million were murdered. Hate and Holocaust denial have returned to our society today. I am very, very, very sad about this and I am fighting it with all my might and strength. Words matter. Our words are our power. Cancel Hate. Stop the hate.”
2. Graphic reading (English): "Words matter. Cancel hate"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Duesseldorf, Germany – 25 April 2024
3. Various of Holocaust survivor Herbert Rubinstein and his wife Ruth at their home, looking at old photographs on table
4. SOUNDBITE (German) Herbert Rubinstein, 88, Holocaust survivor:
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“And to reject these messages of hate, to confront them, that is perhaps one way of initiating something that is described as: ‘It will be good’.”
6. Rubinstein and Ruth at home, looking at old photographs
7. Photographs on table
8. SOUNDBITE (German) Herbert Rubinstein, 88, Holocaust survivor:
“My motto is ‘the good will win. You just have to do something about it’.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berlin, Germany – 22 April 2024
9. Various of Ruediger Mahlo,
representative of Germany’s Jewish Claims Conference, in his office
10. SOUNDBITE (German) Ruediger Mahlo, representative of Germany’s Jewish Claims Conference:
“Since October 7, we have been experiencing a breakthrough in hatred of Jews, including Holocaust denial and Holocaust distortion. And the survivors and the Claims Conference want to set an example and raise awareness and draw attention to this situation.”
11. Star of David on display in Mahlo’s office
STORYLINE:
Herbert Rubinstein was 5 years old, when he and his mother where taken from the Jewish town of Chernivtsi and put on a cramped cattle wagon waiting to take them to their deaths.
It was 1941, and Romanians collaborating with Germany’s Nazis were rounding up tens of thousands of Jews from his hometown in what is now southwestern Ukraine.
The 88-year-old Holocaust survivor is participating in a new digital campaign called #CancelHate. It was launched Thursday by the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, also referred to as the Claims Conference.
Rubinstein spoke with The Associated Press during a recent interview at his apartment in the western German city of Duesseldorf.
The digital campaign features videos of survivors from around the globe reading Holocaust denial posts from different social media platforms. Each post illustrates how denial and distortion can not only rewrite history but perpetuate antisemitic tropes and spread hate.
Ruediger Mahlo, representative of Germany’s Jewish Claims Conference, said there was a rise hatred towards Jews since Hamas’ deadly attack on October 7 and the following war.
The launch of the Claims Conference campaign also comes days before Yom HaShoah — Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day — next Monday.
In one of the videos Rubinstein talks about his own persecution as a Jewish child during the Holocaust.
AP Video shot by Pietro De Cristofaro
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