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Poland to punish those who use the phrase “Polish death camp”
Poland is drawing up new regulations to punish use of the phrase “Polish death camps” when referring to wartime Nazi concentration camps on Polish soil, Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro said on Saturday. Poland has long sought to eliminate the misleading phrase from historical and newspaper accounts since it suggests the country, which was occupied by […]
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Serbia lawmakers pass Holocaust restitution law
[JURIST] Serbian lawmakers on Friday approved a bill that will allow restitution of heirless and unclaimed Jewish property taken during the Holocaust. The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) [advocacy website], which aggressively campaigned for the bill to be passed,said [AP report] that Serbia is leading the way as one of the first countries in Europe […]
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Lithuania pledges to publish names of 1,000 suspected Holocaust perpetrators
Following the publication in Lithuania of a groundbreaking book on local complicity during the Holocaust, a state museum on genocide said it would publish a list of 1,000 suspected perpetrators. Terese Birute Burauskaite, who heads the Vilnius-based Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania, said her institution would “this year try to publish a book” […]
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Horror of Nazi Medical Experiments Emerges in Holocaust Survivor’s Account
The chilling testimony of a survivor of Nazi medical experiments has emerged in a three-page deposition recently unearthed at the Central Zionist Archive in Jerusalem. The deposition, which carries no date, was submitted by Heinz Reimer, a Jewish survivor of several concentration camps, among them Dachau and Mauthausen. His testimony was discovered by an archivist […]
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The Jew Who Silenced America’s Earliest Anti-Semites
Americans besieged by today’s hateful rhetoric would be wise to look up Jacob Henry, whose seminal defense of his own faith—and others’—was once memorized by schoolchildren everywhere. The story of the Jews in America shows how a people persecuted by Christians and Muslims in the Old World were welcomed, not just tolerated, in the New […]
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Why Auschwitz? Israeli Students Should Go to Where the Holocaust Really Began
The main ceremony to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which falls tomorrow, will be held once again in Poland. The March of the Living excursions and the regular trips by high-school students – an obligatory experience for virtually every young Israeli – go only to Poland. One can argue about the contents of these trips. […]
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Jewish cemeteries, Holocaust memorials vandalized across Germany
Acts of vandalism were reported at several German Jewish cemeteries and memorials in recent weeks. Unidentified individuals defaced dozens of “stumbling block” memorials in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district of Berlin, covering them with gray paint on Tuesday, according to police, who are investigating the incident. The small, brass blocks set into sidewalks note the last dwelling […]
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Oscar Hopeful Reveals the ‘Unmaking’ of Claude Lanzmann by His Holocaust Masterpiece
TORONTO – Claude Lanzmann’s epic Holocaust film “Shoah” was never nominated for an Academy Award. But 30 years after its release, a new documentary about the French-Jewish filmmaker and his experiences making the nine-and-a-half-hour long masterpiece has a good shot at clinching the much-sought-after honor. “Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah” is one of five […]
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Wiesenthal Center reports worst global anti-Semitism incidents from past year
Anti-Semitism sadly reared its ugly head numerous times throughout the world in 2015. “2015 was a disastrous year for anti-Semitism, across Europe, on our nation’s campuses, online and beyond,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a human rights organization. Cooper and Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the organization, […]
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Pardon Plea by Adolf Eichmann, Nazi War Criminal, Is Made Public
JERUSALEM — After he was convicted and sentenced to death in Israel for his role in the annihilation of millions of Jews by Nazi Germany, Adolf Eichmann pleaded for his own life. “There is a need to draw a line between the leaders responsible and the people like me forced to serve as mere instruments […]
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