Alex Dafner: ANZAC Day during the Covid-19 Crisis Yiddish 26.4.2020

Jewish leaders and several State Parliamentarians in NSW and Victoria again called for a ban on showing Nazi symbols in public, following the flying of a Nazi swastika flag in a private backyard in Newtown in Sydney on the eve of Yom-HaShoah, Holocaust Commemoration Day, and a display of a Nazi swastika flag, together with two Chinese flags and a banner with the words "COVID-19", above a Telstra phone tower in Kyabram, 212K north of Melbourne, the week before. Following their appeal to the Australian Dymock’s book sellers, the ECAJ thanked the firm for removing 55 of 60 versions of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” that did not have accompanying annotations and commentaries, from their online book store, although two other versions of the manifest published under a different name have since also been discovered for sale at Dymock’s. Australian Jewish combatants who fought in the many wars of the 19th Century until the present day, were honoured and remembered yesterday on ANZAC Day, together with their non-Jewish comrades in arms and the fascinating story of the Melbourne Victoria Cross WWI winner Issy Smith, born Isrolik Sheylevitch, was highlighted in an interesting piece in the AJN.

Source: SBS