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News Briefs / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Jewish Mass Grave Uncovered in Belarus

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The remains of 12 adults and 11 children were uncovered in the town of Strešyn in the country’s southeastern Gomel region, which was occupied by the Nazi Germany in August 1941.

Headline / Jerusalem / Eastern Europe

Viktor Orban Moving Hungary's Embassy to Jerusalem Next Month

By Jewish Press News Desk

Hungary has been talking for a while about the idea of moving their embassy to Jerusalem.

Business and Economy / Eastern Europe

Israel’s Elbit Systems Signs $410 Million Romanian Drone Contract

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The Israeli defense electronics company announced Wednesday that it had been awarded the lucrative contract to supply Romania with up to seven Watchkeeper X tactical unmanned aircraft systems.

Government / News Briefs / Eastern Europe

Herzog Meets Latvian Counterpart, Hails Three Decades of Bilateral Ties

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

“Israel places great importance on continuing to enhance and deepen our bilateral relations with Latvia as well as all three Baltic states,” says the Israeli president.

Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Israel Recognizes 6 Slovaks as ‘Righteous Among the Nations’

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The Israeli Embassy there held a ceremony honoring Slovakian Righteous Among the Nations. It awarded six coins and certificates to six families who risked their lives saving persecuted Jews during the Holocaust.

IDF & Security / News Briefs / Poland / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

IDF to End Holocaust Delegations to Poland, Chooses Lithuania Instead

By Israel Hayom

The move has stunned many inside and outside the IDF, both due to the unilateral nature of the decision and due to the choice of alternative destination.

Featured / Israel / Archaeology / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Remains of Vilna's Great Synagogue Torah Ark Excavated after Nazi Destruction

By Jewish Press News Desk

A few years ago, Dr. Jon Seligman's visit to Vilna as part of a roots trip sparked the idea of digging up what was left of the compound and the synagogue.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Police and Crime / Palestinian Authority / Judea & Samaria / Settlements / Sovereignty / Eastern Europe

Trifecta: Convicted Terrorist Builds Illegal Structures in Gush Etzion with EU Money

By Jewish Press News Desk

The European Union's funding of illegal Arab construction in Area C of Judea and Samaria is a path to establishing a de facto Palestinian state.

Israel / Antisemitism / Eastern Europe

Albania Academy of Sciences Adopts IHRA's Definition of Anti-Semitism

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Academy of Science will issue its own statement on the adoption of the IHRA working definition on January 26.

Boycott / BDS / Eastern Europe

Israel Thanks Czech Republic for ‘Important’ Anti-Boycott Resolution

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

The Czech Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday passed a resolution strongly condemning all manifestations of anti-Semitism, including against the State of Israel, and condemning any call for boycotting the Jewish state.

Jerusalem / Eastern Europe

Romania 'Remains Committed to Relocating Embassy to Jerusalem'

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

“I stand behind what I said in the past. There is no change in policy,” said Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă.

Holocaust / European Union / Eastern Europe

Bosnia and Herzegovina to Address Holocaust Restitution to Enter European Union

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

"This . . . is a powerful call for long-awaited legislation in Bosnia to provide justice for Holocaust survivors and their families, and to the Jewish community and other religious communities."

History / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Lithuania Admits its Citizens Participated in Murder of Jews During the Holocaust

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

A document prepared ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s historic visit to Lithuania calls the death of 95 percent of Lithuanian Jews “a great tragedy for the Lithuanian state and society.”

Israel / Diaspora / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Nazi Hunter Zuroff Lambastes PM for Praise of Lithuania’s Holocaust Remembrance

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Zuroff said that “the Government of Lithuania has, over the last 25 years, been making great efforts to eliminate the crimes of thousands of Lithuanians that were directly involved in the murder of Jews.”

Antisemitism / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Elie Wiesel's Childhood Home Vandalized by Anti-Semites

By JNi.Media

The Romanian group for Monitoring and Fighting Anti-Semitism condemned the vandalism against the "memory of Elie Wiesel, the memory of the Holocaust victims and the souls of the Holocaust survivors."

News Briefs / Jerusalem / European Union / Eastern Europe

Slovakia Moving Embassy to Jerusalem

By Jewish Press News Desk

Slovakia will be joining the Czech Republic and Bulgaria as European Unions states who are breaking with EU policy on Jerusalem.

Featured / IDF & Security / History / Eastern Europe / NATO

For the First Time Since Hannah Szenes IDF Paratroopers Jump in Eastern Europe

By JNi.Media

The IDF paratroopers are participating in joint training with the 173rd Brigade of the European Command of the US Army.

IDF & Security / Eastern Europe

A First: IDF Participating in NATO Eastern European Exercises

By JNi.Media

Nineteen countries participate in the maneuvers, with about 18,000 soldiers spread around Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.

Headline / Politics / Government / History / Jerusalem / Eastern Europe

Czech Republic Reopens Its Honorary Consulate in Jerusalem

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Dan Propper, a 78-year-old Israeli Czech businessman, was named honorary consul.

IDF & Security / Business and Economy / Eastern Europe

Romania Buys Rights from Israel to Produce Iron Dome

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

In a deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars, Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems will provide the Romanian Romaero company with licensing and training to produce their own air-defense systems.

IDF & Security / Government / Business and Economy / Eastern Europe

Croatia to Buy Used F-16s from Israel Air Force

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The decision to buy the Israeli planes was allegedly pushed by Croatian Defense Minister Damir Krstičević. Israel also offered to cooperate on drone development.

Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset / Eastern Europe

Bayit Yehudi MK Demands Israel Expel Polish Diplomats

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

“It’s a dramatic step but it embodies a clear message that we are not willing to accept the distortion of history ."

Featured / Politics / Government / Russia / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Israeli Ambassador to Russia Speaks Up Against 'Polish Death Camps' Law

By JNi.Media

"We’re working with the Russian state service for archives on a project titled ‘Every Person Has a Name,’" Koren said.

Featured / Politics / Government / Antisemitism / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Israeli Education Minister Orders Compulsory Course on Poles' Collaboration with Nazis

By JNi.Media

The lesson plan reminds students that "even after the war, Jews encountered hostility from their former neighbors as they returned from the concentration camps ... The most famous case was the Kielce pogrom in Poland, in July 1946, during which the Poles murdered 42 Holocaust survivors who returned to the city."

Headline / Politics / Government / Antisemitism / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Israel Demands Poland Reverse Law Outlawing Mention of 'Polish Death Camps' or Polish Complicity

By JNi.Media

The term "Polish death camp" was first used by Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski in a 1944 article that was titled "Polish Death Camp."

Headline / Eye on "Palestine" / Jerusalem / Eastern Europe

Arabs Stunned by Romanian Plan to Move Embassy to Jerusalem

By JNi.Media

Romania was among the 35 countries that abstained at the UN General Assembly vote Thursday condemning President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Featured / Antisemitism / Eastern Europe

Jewish Groups Protest Polish Guesthouse Ban on Jews

By JNi.Media

The guest house belongs to Piotr Rybak, who is known for a number of anti-Semitic actions including the burning of a Jew in effigy on the main market square in Wroclaw.

Government / Travel / Business and Economy / Eastern Europe

Meet Ioana Isac from Romania, Israel’s 3 Millionth Tourist

By JNi.Media

“This is a special day and an historic milestone as we break the 3-million-tourist barrier and set a new all-time record," Minister Levin said.

Featured / Israel / US / Politics / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

100-Year-Old Polish Woman Declared Righteous Among the Nations for Saving Jewish Girl

By JNi.Media

Out of the 26,513 people who have received the honor, 6,706 are Poles, 5,516 are Dutch.

Featured / Politics / History / Media / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Polish Culture Minister Protests Museum's Inclusion of Poles in Responsibility for Holocaust

By JNi.Media

Gliński is irate at the exhibition which presents Poland, France and Ukraine as states and nations that collaborated with the Holocaust, while Germany is presented "only as the country that exemplifies the holocaust."

Featured / Jewish / Arts and Entertainment / Eastern Europe

Film about Jewish Polish Director Wins Best Documentary at Venice International Festival

By JNi.Media

Waszyński was a prolific film director in prewar Poland – in the 1930s he directed 37 of the 147 films made in Poland in that decade, including the Yiddish-language film Dybbuk.

Featured / History / Archaeology / Eastern Europe

Two Mikvahs Exposed in Vilna's Great Synagogue 70 Years after Destruction

By JNi.Media

This important and magnificent synagogue was the center of study of the Vilna Gaon. In recent weeks, a delegation of archaeologists has uncovered two of the compound's ritual baths.

Featured / Israel / Politics / History / Antisemitism / Religion / Russia / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Russian Jews Irate at Official's Notion of 'Sweet Holocaust Deal'

By JNi.Media

"Such words are offensive to two peoples who have been victims of monstrous persecution," Spokesman Borukh Gorin said.

Featured / Israel / Politics / Police and Crime / The Courts / Antisemitism / Sports / Eastern Europe

Poles Condemn Skinhead Attack on Israeli Soccer Team

By JNi.Media

The Polish government's statement said: "We strongly condemn aggression and violence against any person."

Politics / Government / Business and Economy / Science and Tech / European Union / Eastern Europe

Netanyahu Heard on 'Hot Mic' Warning Europe Undermining Its Security

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Europe, he said, was acting not just against Israel’s interests but against its own interests as well.

Israel / Politics / Business and Economy / Eastern Europe

PM Netanyahu in Budapest Expanding Economic Cooperation

By JNi.Media

This is the first visit by a sitting Israeli Prime Minister to Hungary since the resumption of diplomatic relations.

Headline / Terrorism / Antisemitism / Eastern Europe

Jewish Man Attacked With Ax in Ukraine

By Chabad.org

Multiple sources in Dnipro are describing the Ukrainian attacker as someone with a violent past and a history of mental-health issues.

Featured / IDF & Security / US / History / On Campus / Education / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Holocaust Survivor, 86, Returning to Auschwitz with IDF Officers

By JNi.Media

'I never wished to return to that place of our degradation and annihilation, but to return in the company of our noblest, bravest of the brave – our IDF soldiers, makes my spirit soar with pride and hope.'

Featured / History / Arts and Entertainment / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

'The Zookeeper's Wife' Celebrates Polish Couple Who Hid Hundreds of Jews Among the Beasts

By JNi.Media

Some hid in animal cages, other in the villa's basement. Some were 'adopted' as fake family members or service staff.

Politics / History / Antisemitism / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Croatian Government to Investigate Country's Pro-Nazi History

By JNi.Media

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said he would like the commission to recommend how to educate children about human rights violations under totalitarian regimes.

Headline / Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / Police and Crime / Israeli Arabs / ISIS / Eastern Europe

ISA: Israeli Convert to Islam Indicted on ISIS Ties

By JNi.Media

The ISA views the departure of Israelis to Syria and Iraq as a very dangerous phenomenon.

News Briefs / Obituaries / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Attorney Grazhbile Ventslauskayte, Righteous Among the Nations, Dies in Lithuania at 104

By JNi.Media

During the Second World War, Grazhbile and her mother opened a garment workshop for Jewish women living in the ghetto.

Politics / Police and Crime / History / The Courts / News Briefs / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Two Belgians on Trial in Poland for Stealing Auschwitz Fence

By JNi.Media

One hopes that the trial would discover what possessed the two middle-aged Belgians to desire to take home some of it.

Politics / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Islamists / Eastern Europe

Riots in Poland after Murder of Polish Man by Arab Immigrants

By JNi.Media

A 21-year-old local resident named Daniel allegedly threw a firecracker at an Elk café called Kebab Prince, then was stabbed to death by the Arab staff.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Science and Tech / United Nations (UN) / Eastern Europe

Ukrain's Deputy Speaker: Mend Ties with Israel by Moving Embassy to Jerusalem

By JNi.Media

Our advice to all the foreign missions in Israel is to beat the crowds and start moving their own embassies to the capital, while the rates are relatively reasonable.

Politics / News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Polish Court Orders German TV to Apologize for Claiming Shared Responsibility for Auschwitz

By JNi.Media

Yad Vashem criticized the bill against blaming Poland for collaboration in the death camps, warning that its approval in parliament would be considered Holocaust denial and a regression in Poland’s efforts to face its dark past.

Haredim & Hassidim / US / Politics / History / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Eastern Europe / Assimilation

Exhibition: The Jewish Ghetto in Postcards from Eastern Europe to Downtown Manhattan

By JNi.Media

From 1880 to 1924, one third of the Jewish population of Eastern Europe left shtetls and cities for the United States, fleeing persecution and seeking economic opportunity.

Politics / History / News Briefs / Media / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

New Exhibition Shows Poland Using Jewish Gravestones to Build Walls, Sidewalks, Playgrounds

By JNi.Media

Numerous signs suggest the current Polish government is attempting to rewrite its role in World War II and the Holocaust.

History / News Briefs / Obituaries / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Holocaust Banknote Forger Adolf Burger Dead at 99

By JNi.Media

He visited the Bank of England and met the Chief Cashier, who presented him with one of the notes which he had forged in the concentration camp more than sixty years earlier.

Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Hungarian Neo-Nazis Vandalize Holocaust Protest 'Living Memorial'

By JNi.Media

For more than two years, the Living Memorial has served as a site for regular talks, lectures, discussions groups, musical performances and commemorations.

Israel / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Eastern Europe

Mayor Barkat Thanks Czech Government For Refuting ‘Palestinian Lies’ on Jerusalem

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Israel’s Foreign Ministry slammed the short-lived policy, saying the Palestinian Authority is “no longer satisfied with poisoning the minds of Palestinian youth. Now it wants to spread lies and misinformation among Czech youth as well.”

IDF & Security / US / Politics / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Eastern Europe

Israeli Defense Companies Converge on Industry's Next Big Market — Poland

By JNi.Media

IAI has already entered into an agreement with the Czech company Retia to produce air defense radar systems.

Terrorism / US / Politics / News Briefs / Russia / Eastern Europe

Russian Programmer Wanted by US Flees Armenia to Moscow

By JNi.Media

The US has been chasing after Mironov since May for the illegal transfer of US military technology to an unnamed foreign country.

History / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Digging for Treasure Resumes in Tracks of Illusive Nazi Gold Train

By JNi.Media

Tadeusz Slowikowski, 86, is responsible for the Nazi gold train rumor and has spent much of his time since the 1950s searching for that train.

Politics / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Painter Jonasz Stern's 'Landscape after the Holocaust' in Krakow Museum

By JNi.Media

Painter Jonasz Stern left a permanent mark on the Polish art of the 20th century.

Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Historical Discovery in Lithuania: Escape Tunnel Used by Jewish Prisoners to Escape from the Nazis

By JNi.Media

For the first time since the Holocaust the famous tunnel used by the prisoners of Ponar to escape from the Nazis had been located using new technologies for underground predictive scanning.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Thousands of Auschwitz Victims' Personal Items to Go on Display

By JNi.Media

More than 16 thousand personal items belonging to the victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau have now been delivered to the Auschwitz Memorial.

Jewish / US / Politics / Police and Crime / The Courts / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Eastern Europe

Report: Ambitious Justice Minister Using Polanski Extradition to Pave Own Career

By JNi.Media

The Krakow Judge wrote that "had Poland accepted the US extradition request, it would have violated the rights of Mr Polanski and at the same time the European Convention on Human Rights."

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

70 Years Later, Auschwitz Inmate's Gold Ring Found in Double Bottom Mug

By JNi.Media

"The Germans incessantly lied to the Jews they deported for extermination. They told them about resettlement, work and life in a different location."

Israel / Jewish / Politics / News Briefs / Religion / Eastern Europe

Polish Man Passes as Orthodox Jew, Bakes Challas, Leads Prayer, Disappears

By JNi.Media

"Who 30 years ago in this country would have pretended to be a rabbi, to say nothing of 70 years ago?"

Syria / Politics / News Briefs / Germany / European Union / Eastern Europe

Thousands of Syrians Stuck in Greece as Passage through Balkans Narrowed

By JNi.Media

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pushing a plan calling on Turkey to stop the flow of refugees and take some of them back — for a price.

Jewish / News Briefs / Russia / Eastern Europe

Humanitarian Aid: Russia to Transfer Needy Ukrainian Refugees to Siberia

By JNi.Media

The Jewish Autonomous Oblast is a district in the Russian Far East, bordering Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast in Russia and Heilongjiang province in China.

Israel / News Briefs / ISIS / Eastern Europe

European Union: ISIS Has Chemical and Biological Weapons

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Israeli experts confirm ISIS is armed with chemical weapons and add it is a de facto state, with its own license plates and gold coins.

Israel / The Courts / News Briefs / Business and Economy / European Union / Eastern Europe

Jerusalem Leaders Summit: Rule of Law, Property Protection and Indep. Judiciary Meet

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Jerusalem Leaders Summit: economic and political freedom united by shared civilizational underpinnings.

News Briefs / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Polish Army Securing Nazi Gold Train Area

By JNi.Media

A military train had been discovered in Walbrzych, near Poland’s border with the Czech Republic.

News Briefs / Obituaries / Eastern Europe

Body of Missing Israeli Found in Georgia

By Jewish Press News Desk

The body of missing Israeli back packer Dor Cohen has been found in Georgia.

Terrorism / Iran / News Briefs / Eastern Europe

Reuters: Iran Attempts to Buy Nuclear-Related Contraband

By Jewish Press Staff

Iran tried to buy UN-banned products in the Czech Republic but was caught and stopped, Reuters reports exclusively.

Uncategorized / News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust / Eastern Europe

Lauder at 70th Bergen-Belsen Liberation Ceremony: 'Silence Emboldens Tyrants'

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Lauder: 'Jews demanded no 'Right of Return' to Germany or Austria or Poland or any other European country.'

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter VI

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