Poland’s pressure on the European Commission to correct the inaccurate advertisement about Holocaust victims and to attribute German origins to the Auschwitz camp proved effective. But even without this embarrassing error, the inclusion of EU officials is “weird” to say the least.
The boisterous ‘We remember’ is performed frivolously, sloppily, even disrespectfully. Successive EU commissioners scribble the first and last name of the Shoah victim on a piece of paper, sometimes literally on their knees (Margrethe Vestager, the Danish EU commissioner for competition, seems to have been included in this position), croak incoherently in the camera, some free music plays in the background, and the seriousness emanating from the tone and face of the Brussels bureaucrats is supposed to ennoble and honor the Jewish victims of the Third Reich and its allies.
Each of these murdered characters carries with them a long and complicated history and human drama the commissioners are content with a spot that would have more heart and concept put into it by an average high school tiktoker or YouTuber.
And so the names of figures such as Algirdas Saviskis, a young painter from an artistic Jewish-Lithuanian family, appear there. Due to his father’s diplomatic position, the boy had the opportunity to escape from the Kaunas ghetto, but he decided to stay there with his loved ones. The father, unlike his son, survived the war in southern France and carried the tragedy of the extermination of the rest of his family in Eastern Europe with him for the rest of his life. I don’t know whether the A4 piece of paper with the name written indistinctly serves more than the self-promotion of an EU official.
Where did Yeva Rozen die?
Looks like there was at least one more failure in there, God bless you, sweat. The Romanian EU Commission for Transport, Adina Valean, resembles the figure of Yeva Khava Rozen, about whom, unfortunately, it is difficult to find information in popular sources. On your profile A Romanian politician states on social media that the Holocaust victim was born in Romania (location: Liveni) and “murdered during the Shoah in the USSR” (the location says “in Ukraine”). The Commissioner means Transnistria – today an unrecognized state in eastern Moldova, but during the war these territories changed hands and, being under Romanian occupation, became a place of extermination of Jews and other minorities (for example Gypsies )..
Despite all our hatred of the Soviets it is difficult to say that the Nazis murdered Jews in the Soviet Union, when Transnistria itself was the area where the Romanian General Antonescu allowed the extermination of the nations declared by the Germans.
Shame on the European Commission
The officials on site seem to have absolutely no idea what they are doing. There is a victim, the Holocaust, some Nazis, they have a piece of paper and a marker, they write down what the poor recording director dictates to them. Should this be a tribute to the victims of genocide, or should this be a loud ‘we remember’?
Everything about this recording is sloppy, frivolous, pretentious, and even disrespectful to the victims about whom inaccurate information was provided. Finally – this feigned concern about growing antipathy towards Jews does not contain any politically incorrect information – Muslim immigration to Europe is largely responsible for modern-day hostility towards Israeli citizens, and anti-Semitism is increasingly reported in Germany. So instead of seriously thinking about the problem, there are scribbled pieces of paper and the hashtag: “we remember”. The feigned seriousness of the European Union in a nutshell.
Source: wPolityce