Portside Digest - Fri, 2015-01-30 06:01 test - Roma Fear Being Brushed Out of the History of the Holocaust January 30, 2015 About 19,000 Roma died at Auschwitz, yet the they have no official presence at commemorations. Declared "racially inferior" by German authorities in the 1940s, much like the Jews, the Roma were victims of a determined campaign by the Nazis to herd them into ghettos and labor camps, and ultimately to kill them. By the war's end, the Roma were believed to have lost anywhere between 300,000 and 500,000 people across central and western Europe. https://portside.org/2015-01-29/test-roma-fear-being-brushed-out-history-holocaust test - A Crack in Merkel's Power over Europe January 30, 2015 We support SYRIZA's demand for a European Debt Conference with the aim of a haircut for Greece and other indebted countries with repayment conditioned upon growth. The Left Party also calls for a coordinated, EU-wide, one-off wealth tax for millionaires and billionaires, to be used to lower the public debt and to transfer the cost of the financial and economic crisis to the profiteers. https://portside.org/2015-01-30/test-crack-merkels-power-over-europe test - 70 Years After the Liberation of Auschwitz, Holocaust Survivors in Israel are Trapped in Poverty January 30, 2015 As big World War Two anniversaries roll around, fewer and fewer first-hand witnesses are around to tell their stories of its horrors. Israel is still home to many aging Holocaust survivors, but as many as one in four live in poverty. https://portside.org/2015-01-30/test-70-years-after-liberation-auschwitz-holocaust-survivors-israel-are-trapped-poverty -------------------------------------------------------------------- VIEW ONLINE: https://portside.org/portsidegeneral SUBSCRIBE: http://portside.org/subscribe VISIT PORTSIDE.ORG: http://portside.org TWITTER: https://twitter.com/portsideorg FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/Portside.PortsideLabor -------------------------------------------------------------------- Portside aims to provide material of interest to people on the left that will help them to interpret the world and to change it. Submit via email: [log in to unmask] Submit via web: http://portside.org/submittous3 Frequently asked questions: http://portside.org/faq Sub/Unsub: http://portside.org/subscribe-and-unsubscribe Search Portside archives: http://portside.org/archive ######################################################################## To unsubscribe, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(portsidetest,SIGNOFF);