[home: http://monkeyfist.com]
essays · argument · politics · technology · culture

No More Austrian Volunteers at Holocaust Memorial

Monday, 10 April 2000


[icon] Printer version
[icon] Permanent URL
[icon] Support this author's work
Austria has decided to stop sending volunteers to Yad Vashem.
...
The [Austrian Interior] minister reportedly said that it would be better for Austrian youngsters to spend their national service time helping the elderly and the disabled in their own country.
...
According to an Austrian volunteer at Yad Vashem, quoted by the paper, the decision was influenced by Georg Haider's rightwing party.

Yad Vashem is the Israeli Holocaust Memorial.


· More about world news
· More by Niel Bornstein
· More web pages like this article
· Discuss this article