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| July 5, 2013
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Latvian memorial: Celebrating the ’rounding up of Jews’ to protect their village

 

The Simon Wiesenthal Center blasts Latvia nationalists’ plan to commemorate WWII event that facilitated the massacre of town’s entire Jewish population ‘absolutely disgusting & a terrible insult to all Holocaust victims’

By AFP

The Simon Wiesenthal Center on Wednesday condemned plans by Latvian nationalists to mark a World War II event that led to the massacre of a town’s Jewish population.

Latvian nationalists. 'Old-fashioned anti-Semitism' (archives) - Photo: AFP

Latvian nationalists. ‘Old-fashioned anti-Semitism’ (archives) – Photo: AFP

Efraim Zuroff, director of the Nazi-hunting center in Jerusalem, called the commemoration planned Thursday in the northern town of Limbazi “absolutely disgusting and a terrible insult to the victims of the Holocaust in Latvia.” Continue Reading »

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| July 30, 2012
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Latvian boy’s right hand now fixed by Israeli surgeons

Kyril, a 12 year old boy from Latvia whose congenital defect made it impossible for him to use his right hand, will soon to return home.

 

Kyril, a 12-year-old boy from Latvia whose congenital defect made it impossible for him to eat, scratch or do anything else with his right hand, is now able to function normally and return home, thanks to surgeons at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa.

KYRIL lived until now with only one working hand
Photo: Courtesy Rambam Medical Center

Kyril suffered from brachial plexus palsy, a defect that occurs in one in 3,000 to 5,000 births.

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