Apr 23 2007
Hallo, wir leben noch…
Vor einer Woche war in Israel Yom Ha Shoah, der nationale Holocaust - Gedenktag. Die Lage der Überlebenden der Schoah dort scheint sich dramatisch zuzuspitzen:
Zeev Factor, chairman of the Holocaust Survivors Welfare Fund, says that 80.000 Shoah-survivors out of the 250.000 living in Israel live in poverty and many of them are hungry on a regular base,
berichtet Transponder 48 . 20 Überlebende der Shoah und ca. eintausend junge Menschen, meist Schulkinder und Pfadfinder demonstrierten an Yom Ha Shoah vor der Knesset in Jerusalem:
If these kids are all the support that stands up for the Dignity of the Shoah-Survivors, then they are surely forgotten.
During the last few years, the survivors have started going back to Germany. In Germany they have an reasonable pension of around 6000 NIS and free Medicare. It can’t be more ironical and has a strong symbolical meaning, that they are going back to Germany, in order to live a better life, before they die.
Instead Germany should guarantee a dignified living for all survivors of Shoah and Concentration Camps. It is a shame to force them out of their home country just to be eligible vor these payments.
Stattdessen sollten wir den Überlebenden der Konzentrationslager und der Shoah die Leistungen der deutschen Pflegeversicherung in deren Heimatländern auszahlen! Mit 80 Jahren dürfen sie nicht erneut zur Migration gezwungen werden.
