In Germany is beginning to erase the memory of the Holocaust

Boris Lozhkin
2 min readNov 6, 2023

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A kindergarten in the small German town of Tangerhütte is planning to change its name to Weltentdecker, “World Explorers.” Not bad, but the matter is that it has been named after Anne Frank since the 1970s.

That very Jewish girl who, after the Nazis came to power in Germany, immigrated with her family to the Netherlands, where she wrote her famous diary. Anne died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Her diary became a kind of chronicle of the Holocaust through the example of one family.

The Tangerhütte community claims that Anne Frank’s story is difficult to convey to the Tangerhütte little ones, who are primarily from immigrant families, and that the name “world explorers” will make the daycare center “more child-friendly.” The renaming initiative is allegedly coming from parents and the pedagogical staff.

This is an ominous trend. If Germany is already beginning to erase the memory of the Holocaust, then we should neither be surprised to see graffiti in the form of Stars of David on a school in Paris, nor to the banner at a football match in Bosnia insulting the Israeli owner of one of the teams, who was called a “Jewish b…ch.”

Not to mention the pro-Palestinian demonstrations, which in fact glorify Hamas, and therefore terrorism.

The world has forgotten what hate propaganda leads to. However, the worst thing is that even the reminder of this is being erased under the guise of false tolerance.

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Boris Lozhkin
Boris Lozhkin

Written by Boris Lozhkin

President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine and Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress. https://borislozhkin.org/

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