I CARE - utch Rabbi Objects to Nazis in Monument

20.10.12

I CARE - News - Internet Centre Anti Racism Europe: 18/10/2012- A Dutch rabbi has demanded that the names of his relatives be removed from a monument which commemorates Jewish Holocaust victims along with German soldiers who died in World War II. “I don’t want my family members’ names to appear next to the names of German murderers,” Rabbi Wim van Dijk said in a filmed interview concerning the unveiling of the monument, planned for Oct. 20 in Geffen in the eastern Netherlands. Onno Hoes, chairman of the Hague-based Center for Information and Documentation on Israel – a local watchdog on anti-Semitism – asked the municipality to hold off on unveiling the monument, which he defined as a potentially “dangerous precedent.” It could help “the falsification of history and the blurring of borders between victims and perpetrators,” he said.