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French Prime Minister's Secret Holocaust History - Aish.com (Aish)

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne's father, Joseph Bornstein, survived Auschwitz. When France's President Emanuel Macron appointed Elisabeth Borne Prime Minister ...

Some have succeeded in keeping the taste of hope and faith in life. “They mean, on the contrary, that we are going in the right direction - and that we must continue.” Partisans helped smuggle Jewish refugees over the Pyrenees to Spain, helped hide Jews in the French countryside, and engaged in acts of armed rebellion and sabotage. Despite the horrors of the camp, Jewish prisoners managed to create a vibrant cultural and religious life. Joseph was one of the Jews hoisted onto a wagon, he described: “I was lying on the bodies of three of my friends, who had just died.” One of the first, the “Jewish Army,” was founded in the south of France in 1940, by a Jewish refugee from eastern Europe named David Knout. It’s plan, to annihilate the Jewish people, is already in the stages of implementation… After he was freed at the end of World War II, Joseph Bornstein returned to France. The Bornstein family was originally from Poland, and moved to Belgium, part of an exodus of eastern European Jews in the years after World War I who moved to France, Belgium, Britain, and North and South America. Joseph Bornstein decided to take the highly dangerous step of joining the French Resistance. At a recent meeting of the French Jewish communal group CRIF (Conseil Representatif des Institutions juives de France), the Prime Minister described how her father, Joseph Bornstein, was arrested and sent to Auschwitz in 1943. The Bornsteins moved once again in 1940, fleeing Nazi-occupied Belgium and settling in the southern French city of Nimes.

Readout of Vice President Harris's Meeting with Prime Minister ... (The White House)

Vice President Kamala Harris met with Prime Minister Sanna Marin of Finland and Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson of Sweden in Munich, Germany on February 18.

Vice President Harris and Prime Ministers Marin and Kristersson discussed the close bonds and cooperation between the United States and Finland and Sweden. The Vice President reiterated the U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris met with Prime Minister Sanna Marin of Finland and Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson of Sweden in Munich, Germany on February 18.

Doorstop Interview - Kalgoorlie | Prime Minister of Australia (Prime Minister of Australia)

And what is happening here is a major upgrade from the National Broadband Network. As part of the 4,800 homes and businesses that will be upgraded with Fibre ...

And I was out and about sitting down in Fitzroy Crossing talking to the people who were suffering from that flood where they were. I'll continue to be a Prime Minister who gets out and about and doesn't just sit in Canberra or Sydney. One of the reasons why I wanted to come here to the School of the Air is to engage personally with them. And that's why today I'll be meeting in a little while with the Mayor here in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, that is overwhelmingly where a majority of the recipients of the CDC came from. Part of that attractiveness in regional Australia is giving the same access to broadband that you would expect in the cities. It has the support of sporting organisations, it has the support of faith groups, as well, who see this as important. And might I say, some who are critical of me as well in terms of the Opposition leadership team, I put my record of visiting WA and engaging with WA communities throughout this great state with them any day. JOURNALIST: Can I just ask, we spoke to a woman by the name of Janice Scott, she’s up there in Laverton as well. And what it will do is make an incredible difference, and make it more attractive as well for people to move to, and live in the regions. And it means that people can enjoy a quality of life that the parents that I was speaking to here today can take comfort from the fact that their young ones education won't be disadvantaged. And that was one of the weaknesses of the CDC was that there weren't the support networks around it. It's a part of our almost two and a half billion dollar upgrade to the National Broadband Network.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese defends SmartCard ahead of ... (ABC News)

Anthony Albanese rebuffs opposition claims the government's new SmartCard is a "waste of time and money", during his ninth visit to WA since being elected ...

"There is need right around Australia for services … "The people that are causing the problems, the anti-social behaviour in the northern Goldfields at the moment, are not going to be the people who volunteer to go on this card." "The fact that it's voluntary means that this card will be a complete waste of time and money," he said. "What we're trying to do here is not say, 'Ok we're going to leave people on welfare and not give them hope of a better future of employment and training and the things that really lift people out of despair and poverty'." Mr Albanese was pressed on whether there was a need for additional funding support to address alcohol-fuelled violence in regional WA communities, like the "One of the first decisions that they took was to abolish the cashless debit card, and by abolishing the cashless debit card, the rivers of grog have just reopened," Mr Dutton said. "One of the things that the SmartCard will do is not just quarantine some income, but also provide for a range of services and ongoing support as well. "The problem with the CDC, which was found in the surveys and the reviews that were done, [was] it didn't provide for any medium-term transition at all," Mr Albanese told ABC Goldfields. "The problems [in the community] are quite complex and there are many, and I think any change to what we are doing is going to take some hard thinking and advice from lots of people." "There are a lot of mayors here in WA at the moment in regional and remote areas who are very worried that they're heading down the Alice Springs path." Mr Dutton travelled to Laverton to meet with locals and said the removal of the cashless debit card was one of they key drivers of alcohol-fuelled crime. Mr Albanese, who was also in the state on his ninth visit since being elected last May, defended the federal government's newly-created SmartCard against the opposition's claims it was a "waste of time and money", due to its voluntary status.

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