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 …
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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 …
Immediate end to the spiral of violence in the Middle East
14. Mai 2021
Once again, we have to witness that in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict violence as a means of conflict primarily affects the civilian population. The clashes began many days ago with the attempt to enforce the settlement policy, which has been unequivocally condemned by the United Nations, and which amounts to the expulsion of the Palestinian population …
Greeting of the FIR to all events on the day of liberation, the day of victory and the commemorative actions “immortal regiment” 2021
22. April 2021
The International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR) – Association of Anti-Fascists greets all participants of the celebrations of Liberation Day, Victory Day and the commemorative actions “immortal regiment”.
May 8 / 9, 1945 is and remains for anti-fascists in all parts of the world the “dawn of human history” (Peter Gingold). In many places of the …
