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Eichmann witnesses meet German youth
Hundreds of Jewish students from Germany to gather in Budapest this weekend, mark 50th anniversary of Nazi criminal's Israel trial
Hundreds of Jewish students from Germany will arrive in Budapest this weekend to mark the 50th anniversary of the Adolf Eichmann trial. Their activities will include a meeting with Holocaust survivors who testified in the Nazi criminal's trial in Israel.
The Hungary meeting will be held as part of the student conference organized annually by the Jewish Agency for young adults from Germany.
During the conference, the students will discuss the commemoration of the Holocaust, its implications on the Israeli and German societies and the influence this has on the Jewish identity of the young generation of German Jews.
Every year, hundreds of young German adults arrive in Israel as part of programs like Taglit and Masa. Their participation in the student conference after returning to Germany allows many of them to continue the process they began in Israel.
Dr. Michael Yadovitzky, director of the Jewish Agency's activity in central Europe, noted that the student conference in Budapest was just one of the JA's initiatives among young German Jews in a bid to strengthen their connection with Israel and deepen their feeling of belonging to the Jewish people.
After the Holocaust, the German Jewish community was comprised of only 15,000 people, but now it's one of the biggest in Europe with more than 250,000 – most of them families who immigrated to Germany after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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