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The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) has obtained and revealed a list of 12,000 Nazis who had been living in Argentina, many of whom held bank accounts with the predecessor of Credit Suisse.
Germany pledged NIS 3.8 million towards establishment of a “Global Task Force” against Holocaust denial and distortion.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The country’s Supreme Administrative Court prohibited the march, ruling that far-right demonstrators could only lay wreaths at Lukov's home.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Sheikh Mohammed al-Issa, secretary-general of the Muslim World League, is the most senior Islamic leader to visit the former death camp.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence called on the world to unite against growing anti-Semitism, and notably called out Iran for its Holocaust denial and threats to wipe out Israel.
By Ariel Kahana
Senior Trump adviser Jared Kushner, along with other White House envoys, will return to the U.S. from Switzerland together with the president after inclement weather prevented them from catching their flight to Israel.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Pelosi was accompanied by six members of Congress from both sides of the political aisle.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The French president also threw a hissy fit against his Israeli security detail.
By Ariel Kahana
French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to meet with P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah ahead of the 2020 World Holocaust Forum has ruffled some feathers at the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The revealing images came from the estate of Johann Niemann, a deputy commandant at the camp who was one of 10 SS-men killed by inmates during the October 1943 uprising.
From Wednesday to Thursday, January 22 to 24, 2020, the "Remembering the Holocaust: Fighting Antisemitism" international conference will be held in Jerusalem.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Efraim Zuroff slammed the proposed legislation as the “final stage of a long attempt to whitewash massive complicity by Lithuanians.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The museum also said that 900,000 users follow its account on Twitter, and more than 300,000 use the museum’s profile on Facebook with 80,000 on Instagram.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I will be clear: We have decided that I as the Polish president will not participate in the event,” said Polish President Andrzej Duda, adding that not allowing him to publicly honor Polish victims of the Holocaust was equivalent to a “distortion of the historical truth.”
The Ukrainian diplomat's social media activities also included a photo of him celebrating his 6oth birthday while posing with a cake depicting Hitler’s 'Mein Kampf.'
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We are shocked and saddened about the appearance of this representation of Nazi ideology. Ironically, we learned about this symbol of hate appearing here on the same day we hosted a major public event on anti-Semitism,” the museum released in a statement.
EJA's Rabbi Margolin announced that Chatila will join a delegation of European politicians travelling to Auschwitz, where he will receive an award for his actions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in a letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings that the program showed maps that place Nazi concentration camps within the borders of modern-day Poland.
The Sport Club Corinthians Paulista is one of Brazil’s most successful football clubs and is estimated to have over 30 million supporters.
Over 75% of Dutch Jews, an estimated 102,000, were exterminated in the Holocaust.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Chiune Sempo Sugihara issued between 2,100 and 3,500 transit visas and saved some 6,000 Jews, papers which later came to be known as “visas for life.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The organization From the Depths, whose president, 93-year-old Edward Mosberg, is a Holocaust survivor, invited AOC to see the camp where an estimated 1.1. million people were murdered.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
US Rep. Ocasio Cortez: "The fact that concentrations camps are now an institutionalized practice in the Home of the Free is extraordinarily disturbing, and we need to do something about it."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Poland is the only European Union country that has failed to pass a law that restores the property to Holocaust survivors and to others dispossessed during World War II or Communism.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Al Jazeera news network ran a clip declaring Israel the biggest winner of the Holocaust, and then compared Israel to Nazis.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
At 10 a.m. on Thursday morning, sirens were sounded for two minutes throughout Israel, bringing the streets to a complete standstill as Israelis marked in unison Yom HaShoah, Israel’s national Holocaust Remembrance Day.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The year 2018 was one of the worst years in the last decade with regards to Anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish violence.
Ari Fuld's broadcast for Yom Hashoah - May 5, 2016.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
66% of millennials are unable to state the significance of “Auschwitz.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Despite Gov. Alexander Rogachuk saying, “We will not allow the building of anything on bones of people,” officials are moving ahead with plans to build a luxury apartment building complex at the site.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The grave diggers were apparently searching for gold, jewels and other precious items the Jews were wearing when they were slaughtered.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Pope Pius XII, the World War II-era pope, has been accused by many of having been a Nazi sympathizer who failed to act to save Jews from the Holocaust.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We expect the number of victims to go over 1,000,” said Brest official Anna Kondak. “During three weeks, every day about 40 remains are being found."
By Israel Hayom
Jews who tried to hide in urban areas during the Nazi occupation of Poland were much less likely to survive • “Poles who chose to save Jews were essentially violating the unwritten norms of their community.”
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)
An estimated 1.1 million people were killed at Auschwitz, including as many as 960,000 Jews.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In Israel, they will have an extensive tour of the nation to learn about the land, Jewish history and Zionism.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Yad Vashem has so far been successful in documenting close to 4,800,000 of the six million Jewish victims.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The exhibition tells the stories of diplomats who risked their lives and the safety of their families to rescue hundreds and even thousands of Jews.
Marshal Philippe Petain was a French leader and Nazi collaborator in World War II.
By JNi.Media
Merkel denied that she had conditioned her visit to Israel on the Netanyahu government not carrying out the evacuation of the illegal Bedouin settlement Khan al-Ahmar.
By JNi.Media
David Adjaye was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Ron Arad was born in Tel Aviv.
By JNi.Media
"The AfD is the only party in the Federal Republic that [...] addresses the issue of Muslim hatred of the Jews without belittling it."
By JNi.Media
It is estimated that the Bernese group produced several hundred to several thousand fake passports between 1941 and 1943.
By JNi.Media
This scandalous competition was based in the Russian social network VK, the largest social network in Europe, a Russian Facebook with about half a billion users.
By JNi.Media
“I’m very thankful to be able to show my beloved family, wherever they are, that after all they’ve been through, there is justice.”
By JNi.Media
In Germany, Nazi salutes are a criminal offense punishable by up to three years in prison.
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
Prosecutor Rommel noted the huge difference between the US legal requirement for deportation, versus the German requirement for capital crime proceedings.
By JNi.Media
There's an abundance of nursing homes in Münsterland, Germany, and one of them has just become home to a 95-year-old Nazi who once participated in murdering 6,000 Jews in one day.
By JNi.Media
Other products include SS linen, busts of Hitler and of other top Nazis, and knockoffs of liquor brands.
By JNi.Media
Aiman Mazyek, chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, advocates religious tolerance.
By JNi.Media
Everybody in the place was careful not to mention Israel or 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."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The country, which perpetrated mass murder against Jews and other minorities between 1933 and 1945, also agreed to increase pensions to 55,000 Holocaust survivors in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as to expand eligibility for child survivors.
“The thousands of Righteous Gentiles were not the rule. They were the exception that proved the rule.”
By JNi.Media
Over its history, the Jewish community of Cologne has suffered persecutions, many expulsions, massacres and destruction.
"I am honoured that my own great grandmother is one of these Righteous Among the Nations."
By JNi.Media
The new Yad Vashem exhibition tells how Jews yearned for Eretz Israel during and immediately following the Shoah in the years 1933-1948.
Rumors began spreading last night that Yad Vashem took down that famous photo,
By JNi.Media
Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz said the new law places Jews above other people.
By JNi.Media
The names of Henri and Emilie Lamberty will be added to the Wall of Honor in the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem.
By JNi.Media
"A major challenge today is to ensure that young people will know about the Holocaust, will find it significant, and will be able to process it appropriately."
By JNi.Media
One wonders how deep European anti-Semitism must be that the mere mention of the J word evokes a reaction similar to the N word in America.
By JNi.Media
Only about 15-17% of Haredim ages 18-44 celebrate Independence Day in a festive manner.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Prior to the murder of 6 million Jews between 1939 and 1945, some 16,600,000 were spread throughout the world. Today’s data indicates that there are currently 14,511,000 Jews on Earth, a number similar to that in 1922.
We do not expect justice in Europe that seeks - too quickly - to forget, to eradicate the memory, to deny, to destroy evidence. But, our memory, the memory of the Jewish People, is the antithesis of the haste of the Nazis. We are a nation that remembers...
By JNi.Media
"The new displays of Nazism – they too can threaten all of humankind."
Iran warned Israel Wednesday that it would exact retribution for a missile strike on a Syrian air base earlier in the week in which at least seven Iranian military officials were killed.
Since the unit began its work, a total of 3,521 applications have been received and processed for tracing and obtaining information.
The author of 'The Statement' forms his connection to all the characters. “I seem to have lived with these characters and shared their suffering,” he says.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If passed the legislation would grant money raised through donations to American schools as part of the Holocaust Education Assistance Program.
By JNi.Media
The film director Taika Waititi is half Māori father, half Jewish mother, Scarlett Johansson is half Danish father, half Jewish mother.
By JNi.Media
Only one tenth of one percent of Poles turned millions of Jews into the hands of the Nazis, robbed them, took their homes and murdered them in well documented pogroms, during and after the war.
By JNi.Media
A member of the Simon Wiesenthal Center bought the book at the Krithi International Book Fair in Cochin, ironically the city that served as home to Jews in India for hundreds of years.
By JNi.Media
To date, Yad Vashem has recognized some 26,500 Righteous Among the Nations from over 50 nations worldwide.
By JNi.Media
It appears that Poles are convinced the world owes them an apology for their collaboration with the Nazis as well as for murders of Jews they initiated themselves.
By JNi.Media
The Foreign Ministry's announcement relied on an interpretation of an interview with Polish justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro, where he may have said that the law will not be implemented at this time, before a review by Poland's Constitutional Court.
A team from Poland will be arriving in Israel to discuss how the law should be amended,.
By JNi.Media
During and after the war, the Holy Cross Mountains Brigade was accused of enjoying the support of the German occupation, and the Home Army, the national underground, described its members as being treasonous and openly fascist.
By JNi.Media
It is believed that the reason for returning the law to the Justice Ministry is the wave of anti-Semitism sweeping Poland.
The museum would serve to rectify a “blind spot” that many Ukrainians have about their country’s role in the Holocaust.
Protesters held up banners in Hebrew and Polish reading ‘No law can change history’ and ‘Poles, we remember what you did.’
By JNi.Media
Since the Met itself did not send out its own thugs to bargain down terrified Jewish refugees out of their dwindling riches, it is OK for the museum to continue to display the million dollar artwork.
By JNi.Media
It is estimated that there are approximately 25,000 Algerian Jewish Holocaust survivors living around the world, bringing the cost of the Algerian Holocaust to the Germans to $79 million, or a little less than one dollar per German.
Rabbi Moshe Azman wants the March of the Living trips moved out of Poland.
The law will guarantee full legal protection for Holocaust survivors, educators and tour guides who may be prosecuted in a foreign country (Poland) for relating historical truths about the Holocaust.
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 Holocaust survivors population is aging, and its size is diminishing.
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."
Restrictions on statements... regarding the Polish people's direct or indirect complicity with the crimes committed... during the Holocaust are a serious distortion.
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."
What has been learned from all the memorials if synagogues across Europe need round-the-clock protection?
By JNi.Media
"Islamophobia is also a kind of anti-Semitism," MK Tibi noted, "so we must all be united in the fight against racism, the rejection of the other and the creation of stereotypes."
By JNi.Media
Alexander Boroda, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, told Arkady Vaispapir’s sons: "With your father’s departure, the whole world has lost a hero."
By JNi.Media
The ghetto as a new human condition expresses the utter loss of the individual’s right to privacy and legal protections from abuse.
By JNi.Media
"I am not sad that I will die," Nadjari wrote, "but I am sad that I won't be able to take revenge like I would like to."
By JNi.Media
The Samuel Bak Museum which was opened this month is a new branch of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum. Bak donated more than 60 of his paintings, and plans to send many more.
By JNi.Media
'Surely some US president has to have the courage to stand up and take on the Jewish lobby in US?' Prince Charles wrote in 1986.
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