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Duchess Camilla Expresses ‘Pride’ Over UK’s Treatment of Holocaust Survivors
Britain’s Duchess of Cornwall said on Tuesday she is proud of how the country has taken care of Holocaust survivors and refugees who escaped Nazi persecution, Britain’s Jewish News reported. Camilla, 68 — the second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales (who was first married to the late Lady Diana) — visited the Holocaust Survivors Centre (HSC) in London and met some 100 survivors […]
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We owe it to the victims to convict elderly Nazis
OPINION: Karl du Fresne’s recent op-ed (What is gained from convicting elderly Nazis?, February 19) is hardly pleasant reading for a person like myself who has devoted the last 35 years to facilitating the prosecution of Nazi war criminals, but he does raise several legitimate points that deserve to be answered. In a perfect world, […]
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Death of last Treblinka survivor points to post-Holocaust witness era
MOSHAV UDIM, Israel — The death of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Samuel Willenberg marks the passing of the last link to the notorious death camp of Treblinka, perhaps the most vivid example of Nazi Germany’s attempt to destroy European Jewry. But the death of Willenberg, who was buried Monday, also symbolizes a looming transition in the […]
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Holocaust Denier and Nazi Sympathizer Buried in Arlington National Cemetery
A U.S. soldier wounded in World War II who later became an outspoken Nazi sympathizer and Holocaust denier was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Willis Carto, who died at 89 in October, was interred at the military cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday, the Huffington Post reported. He founded the Liberty Lobby, a white supremacist […]
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Film Alone in Berlin: How Ordinary Germans Defied Hitler
It’s very strange to be at the Berlin Film Festival, watching a film that is set in Berlin, which has Berlin in its title… and to hear all of the actors speaking in English. What makes it even stranger is that Alone in Berlin is all about someone writing postcards, so we keep seeing shots […]
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Oberlin Professor’s anti-Semitic Posts Are ‘Personal Views,’ Says College
In response to an article revealing that an Oberlin College professor made numerous postings about Jews and Israel to Facebook, the liberal arts college’s president said the college “respects the right of its faculty, students, staff and alumni to express their personal views.” Marvin Krislov’s statement came after The Tower on Thursday published an article […]
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Students at Canada’s McGill University Reject BDS Motion
Students at Montreal’s McGill University failed to ratify a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions motion against Israel. In online voting last week by undergraduates, the motion was rejected 2,819-2,119 (57 percent to 43 percent), with 440 abstentions. It had passed in the university’s student society on February 22 by a vote of 512-357, and was seen […]
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But You Did Not Come Back review – a Holocaust survivor’s love letter to her father
Marceline Loridan-Ivens was 15 when, in April 1944, she was arrested along with her father by the Nazis and sent from occupied France to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Marceline would make it home. Her father would not. But You Did Not Come Back is Loridan-Ivens’s extraordinary, unflinching and deeply moving memoir of the year she spent in Birkenau, […]
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Sacred scrolls that survived Holocaust reunited after more than 50 years
The last time they were all together was more than five decades ago, shortly after they were rescued from a damp, dark warehouse in Prague. The group ended up at Westminster Synagogue in London, where they were given a new lease on life. After a short stay, most of them ended up somewhere else — […]
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Jesse Owens, a Film Hero Once Again
More than any other athlete of his era, Jesse Owens’s image on film has determined his fate. It all began with those few seconds of the 100-meter dash that Leni Riefenstahl enshrined in her film “Olympia, Part 1”: the close-up on Owens’s face, the white flare of the starting gun, Owens’s lurch, and then his […]
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