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.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The officer killed the terrorist.
Hungary has been talking for a while about the idea of moving their embassy to Jerusalem.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“Our results present a comprehensive picture of the impact of COVID-19.”
The Academy of Science will issue its own statement on the adoption of the IHRA working definition on January 26.
They need a miracle. Meanwhile, they sing.
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.
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.
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."
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.”
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.”
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."
Slovakia will be joining the Czech Republic and Bulgaria as European Unions states who are breaking with EU policy on Jerusalem.
By JNi.Media
The IDF paratroopers are participating in joint training with the 173rd Brigade of the European Command of the US Army.
By JNi.Media
Nineteen countries participate in the maneuvers, with about 18,000 soldiers spread around Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Dan Propper, a 78-year-old Israeli Czech businessman, was named honorary consul.
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.
The decision to buy the Israeli planes was allegedly pushed by Croatian Defense Minister Damir Krstičević. Israel also offered to cooperate on drone development.
“It’s a dramatic step but it embodies a clear message that we are not willing to accept the distortion of history ."
By JNi.Media
"We’re working with the Russian state service for archives on a project titled ‘Every Person Has a Name,’" Koren said.
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."
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."
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.
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.
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.
By JNi.Media
Out of the 26,513 people who have received the honor, 6,706 are Poles, 5,516 are Dutch.
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."
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.
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.
By JNi.Media
"Such words are offensive to two peoples who have been victims of monstrous persecution," Spokesman Borukh Gorin said.
By JNi.Media
The Polish government's statement said: "We strongly condemn aggression and violence against any person."
Europe, he said, was acting not just against Israel’s interests but against its own interests as well.
By JNi.Media
This is the first visit by a sitting Israeli Prime Minister to Hungary since the resumption of diplomatic relations.
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.
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.'
By JNi.Media
Some hid in animal cages, other in the villa's basement. Some were 'adopted' as fake family members or service staff.
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.
By JNi.Media
The ISA views the departure of Israelis to Syria and Iraq as a very dangerous phenomenon.
By JNi.Media
During the Second World War, Grazhbile and her mother opened a garment workshop for Jewish women living in the ghetto.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By JNi.Media
Numerous signs suggest the current Polish government is attempting to rewrite its role in World War II and the Holocaust.
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.
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’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.”
By JNi.Media
IAI has already entered into an agreement with the Czech company Retia to produce air defense radar systems.
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.
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.
By JNi.Media
Painter Jonasz Stern left a permanent mark on the Polish art of the 20th century.
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.
By JNi.Media
More than 16 thousand personal items belonging to the victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau have now been delivered to the Auschwitz Memorial.
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."
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."
By JNi.Media
"Who 30 years ago in this country would have pretended to be a rabbi, to say nothing of 70 years ago?"
Over 100 Ukrainian Jews fled war-torn Ukraine and arrived in Israel.
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.
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.
By JNi.Media
Some Hungarians are calling it "Holokamu" (Holocaust con or hoax).
By JNi.Media
Now, that's what you call a role reversal.
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.
Jerusalem Leaders Summit: economic and political freedom united by shared civilizational underpinnings.
By JNi.Media
A military train had been discovered in Walbrzych, near Poland’s border with the Czech Republic.
The body of missing Israeli back packer Dor Cohen has been found in Georgia.
Iran tried to buy UN-banned products in the Czech Republic but was caught and stopped, Reuters reports exclusively.
Iran caught red-handed trying to purchase equipment to pursue nuclear weaponization.
Lauder: 'Jews demanded no 'Right of Return' to Germany or Austria or Poland or any other European country.'