With large satisfaction, the FIR took note of the result of the presidential election in Chile. Not the right-wing conservative Pinochet supporter José Antonio Kast could defend his lead in the first election round, but the representative of the left forces Gabriel Boric received with 56% of the votes a clear confirmation in the runoff. …
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UN resolution “combating Nazism”
5. Dezember 2021
After the FIR Bulletin 62 went to press, we received the attached graphic about the decision of the United Nations General Assembly on the resolution with the unwieldy title “combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.” For several years, this …
Obituary Henz Siefritz (1946-2021)
22. November 2021
With deep sadness, we have to say farewell to a longtime comrade and friend, who for many years helped to shape the work of the FIR also on a responsible level, Heinz Siefritz, our longtime financial secretary. He died at the age of 75 years in the hospital last week, after he had increasingly health …
Dignified birthday celebration 100 years Albina Moimas in Kassel
2. November 2021
On October 30, 2021, at the invitation of FIR, representatives of the Society and political friends congratulated Albina Moimas, a 100-year-old survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp and a comrade-in-arms of the Italian Resistenza in Kassel.
Under the conditions of the Corona rules, it had to be a small gathering. Nevertheless, the vice-president of the International …
FIR is shocked by desecration of the memorial Auschwitz
6. Oktober 2021
With dismay and anger the International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR) – Association of Anti-Fascists had to learn that on Tuesday the memorial Auschwitz-Birkenau, the symbol of the industrial mass extermination of Jewish people, Sinti and Roma and others by German fascism, was desecrated with anti-Semitic slogans.
If someone thinks that with such graffiti he can …
Obituary retired Colonel ZOLTÁN VICZIÁN
24. September 2021
After a patient suffering Zoltán Viczián, member of the honory presidency of FIR, died quietly on 15th of September 2021 at the age of 94 in Hungary. Our dear friend was born on 13th of January 1928.
Already at the age of 16 he fought againts Hitler and Hitler’s Hungarian troops from Salgótarján to Berlin on …
FIR on the dramatic situation in Afghanistan
18. August 2021
We have all seen the dramatic pictures of the last few days from Kabul and some other parts of Afghanistan, where the advance of the Taliban has been proceeding at high speed following the announcement of the withdrawal of foreign forces. The short conclusion of these events can be summed up in the following balance: …
Esther Bejarano, survivor of the extermination camp Auschwitz and member of the honorary presidium of the FIR died
10. Juli 2021
On July 10, 2021, we received the sad news that Esther Bejarano, survivor of the Auschwitz death camp and active for decades in the anti-fascist movement in Germany, honorary chair of the German VVN-BdA passed away at the age of 96 after a short serious illness. We are affected and saddened.
In its obituary, the VVN-BdA …
We celebrate the 70th anniversary of FIR
1. Juli 2021
From June 30 to July 3, 1951 in Vienna took place the International peace congress of the resistance movement. This was the birthday of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR), the umbrella organization of veterans of the antifascist fight, deported ones and victims of Nazi-persecution from all parts of Europe. Since seventy years Internationalism …
The FIR member federations remembered the invasion of the Soviet Union
23. Juni 2021
The FIR and its member federations used the 80th anniversary of the Hitler fascist invasion of the Soviet Union for various commemorative events.
Despite all restrictions caused by the pandemic, public honors took place of course in the states of the former Soviet Union. Together with the Belorussian veteran federation, several hundred people gathered on June …
