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Pro-Hitler Tweets Trending Aided By Misreporting of Gaza Conflict

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Tweets praising Hitler have been trending globally in response to the misreporting of Operation Protective Edge.

News Briefs / Jerusalem / Israeli Arabs / Holocaust

Wind-Whipped Fires in Jerusalem Threaten Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Thousands evacuated and houses on fire as planes try to water bomb the blaze.

News Briefs / Holocaust

Yad Vashem Recognizes First Peruvian Righteous Gentile

By JTA

As consul general of Peru in Geneva, Barreto issued 27 Peruvian passports to 58 Jews, including 14 children, even though the government of Peru by 1938 had given instructions to its consulates in Europe not to issue visas to foreign immigrants — with an emphasis on Jews in particular.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

Elie Wiesel's Childhood Romanian Home is Now New Holocaust Center

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The Holocaust Cellar will serve as a learning center dedicated to the 13,000 local Jewish Holocaust victims.

News Briefs / Holocaust

Muslims Planning 'Shadow Holocaust' Event on Dutch Memorial Day

By JTA

A Dutch Muslim group is planning to commemorate “the ethnic cleansing of Palestine” on Holland’s memorial day for victims of Nazism. The Platform Bewust Muslim group is planning to hold the ceremony on Sunday at a mosque in Hilversum, near Amsterdam, under the banner “Palestine, the Shadow Holocaust,” the Jewish television channel Joods Omroep reported […]

News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Tens of Thousands Participate In Budapest Holocaust Memorial March

By JTA

Tens of thousands of Jews and Jewish supporters participated in the 12th March of the Living Hungary in Budapest in what is considered the largest civil anti-fascist event in Hungary. It was held on the 70th anniversary of the mass deportation of Jews from Hungary by the Nazis. Holding posters saying “Never again” and “History […]

News Briefs / Holocaust

Aging Rescuers of Holocaust Survivors Paid Debt of Gratitude

By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency

The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) seeks to repay the debt of gratitude to non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust by providing financial support to those non-Jewish rescuers in need.

IDF & Security / News Briefs / Holocaust

The Holocaust Survivor Who Fought in Every Israeli War (Video)

By Jewish Press Staff

Ze’ev’s childhood dream was to wear a uniform and be farmer. First, it was a nightmare. In Israel, it was a dream come true.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust

The Parchment of Rebuke That Came Home

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman examined the piece of Torah parchment, cut from a Torah scroll in an Eastern European synagogue, and used by a Luftwaffe officer to wrap his ID card during World War II.

Holocaust

Survivors (Photo Essay)

By Jewish Press Staff

On Sunday evening, April 27, 2014, six Holocaust survivors lit six torches representing the six million Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide during the opening ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem.

Israel / Iran / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

Netanyahu Connects Hitler with Nuclear Iran

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

It is one thing “never to forget,” and it is another to remember not to let it happen again.

Israel / News Briefs / Holocaust

Cabinet Approves Plan for More Financial Assistance to Holocaust Survivors

By Jewish Press News Desk

The government approved a plan to increase financial assistance to Israel's 193,000 remaining Holocaust survivors.

News Briefs / Holocaust

Yom HaShoah 2014

By Jewish Press News Desk

Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day begins on Sunday night in Israel.

News Briefs / Holocaust

Spielberg Launches Center for Genocide Research

By JTA

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg is establishing a Center for Advanced Genocide Research at the University of Southern California.

IDF & Security / News Briefs / Holocaust

Youngest Holocaust Survivor from Schindler’s List Tells her Story

By IDF Spokesperson's Office

A survivors’ daughter serving in the IDF brings pride and joy to a Holocaust survivor.

US / News Briefs / Holocaust

Anne Frank Tree Sapling to Be Planted In D.C.

By JTA

A sapling taken from the tree that grew outside the attic where teen Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was hidden will be planted at the U.S. Capitol. The tree will be planted on the west front lawn on April 30. Saplings taken from the tree have been planted around the world. The tree, at more than […]

US / News Briefs / France / Holocaust

Maryland Legislators Take a Pass on Railway Reparations Bill

By JTA

Maryland lawmakers failed to vote on a bill that would have required the French rail firm SNCF to pay compensation to Holocaust survivors in order to work on a new line. The bill did not progress past committee hearings in the state legislature, where the 2014 legislative session ended Monday night. State Sen. Joan Carter […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Building of WWII Statue Begins in Budapest as Jews Protest

By JTA

Members of the Jewish community were among the demonstrators protesting the construction of a controversial monument to the Hungarian victims of the German occupation, implying that the Hungarian government bore no responsibility for the death of Jews. Work on the statue began Tuesday in downtown Budapest, according to Klubradio, a news station known to be […]

News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Holocaust

Holder of Possible Nazi-Looted Art Treasure Trove Now Cooperating

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The holder of a vast trove of potentially Nazi-looted artwork has agreed to cooperate with officials

News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Warsaw Demolishing Ghetto Wall, Promises Reconstruction

By JTA

Workers began demolishing a wall in Warsaw near the spot where Jews were gathered for transport to the Treblinka concentration camp, but a city official said it will be rebuilt and was torn down so trees and vegetation could be cut. The wall borders the square in the former Warsaw Ghetto known as the Umschlagplatz […]

US / News Briefs / Holocaust

Atlanta Hawks Visit US Holocaust Museum

By JTA

The Atlanta Hawks toured the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum accompanied by the survivor mother-in-law of the NBA team’s owner, Bruce Levenson. Players and most of the coaching staff, along with Levenson and General Manager Danny Ferry, made the visit to the Washington museum. They were joined by Irene Boyarsky, 85, who spent time in a […]

News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Italian Tourist Caught Smuggling Barbed Wire from Auschwitz

By JTA

An Italian tourist tried to smuggle a piece of barbed wire from the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum out of Poland in his suitcase. The man was detained Sunday by border guards at the airport in Krakow. The tourist said he found the rusty piece of wire, which is nearly 16 inches long, on the ground. “During interrogation, […]

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

New Evidence Of U.S. Ambassador To Nazi Germany’s Anti-Semitism

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Before Roosevelt’s ambassador to Nazi Germany had enough of Hitler, he muzzled American Jews anti-Nazi protests.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

Internet Tycoon under Fire for Rare Hitler-Signed Mein Kampf

By JTA

A German-born Internet tycoon who is fighting extradition from New Zealand to the United States for racketeering is under fire for admitting he owns a rare signed copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Kim Dotcom, whose actual name is Kim Schmitz, is the founder of MegaUpload, a file-transfer website that U.S. authorities shut down in 2012. […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Russia / Holocaust

Jews Brought Holocaust on Themselves, Says Russian TV Host

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Putin is right. There is not anti-Semitism in Russia. They simply hate Jews.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Hungary’s Jewish Community Marks 70th Anniversary of Nazi Invasion

By JTA

The Hungarian Jewish community held a memorial event in front of the downtown Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest Wednesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the occupation of Hungary by the Nazi-led German Army. The event, sponsored by the Jewish community but open to the public, comes after representatives of Mazsihisz, the Association of Hungarian […]

News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust

Alleged Ex-Auschwitz Medic, 93, Arrested in Germany

By JTA

An alleged former medic at Auschwitz was arrested in Germany on accusations that he was an accessory to murder. The name of the 93-year-old man was not released in accordance with German privacy laws. He is accused of serving as a medic at the concentration camp in September 1944. Eight transports arrived at Auschwitz during […]

Global / News Briefs / Holocaust

New Gas Chambers 'Hoax' Film on YouTube

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

New Holocaust denial film, "The Gas Chamber Hoax" is on YouTube.

NY / News Briefs / Holocaust

New Yorker Suing Munich Collector for Return of Nazi-Looted Art

By JTA

A New York man has gone to court for the return of several Nazi-looted artworks from the controversial collection of Cornelius Gurlitt in Munich. David Toren, 88, whose father and uncle were art collectors in the pre-war German city of Breslau, sued in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., earlier this month to demand the […]

Europe / Holocaust

Nazi Auschwitz Metal Stamps for Tattooing Found in Poland

By Jewish Press Staff

Nazi stamps used to tattoo death camp prisons are proof of the evil system as Holocaust survivors’ numbers dwindle.

Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

Tokyo Police Arrest Man in Connection With Anne Frank Vandalism

By JTA

Tokyo Metropolitan Police reportedly have arrested a man in connection with the vandalism of hundreds of copies of “The Diary of Anne Frank” in city libraries. The Tokyo resident, identified as an “unemployed man in his 30s,” made a statement admitting to some involvement in the vandalism of the books in February, according to a […]

US / News Briefs / Holocaust

$10 Million Awarded to U.S. Holocaust Museum for Shoah Studies

By JTA

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., received a $10 million grant from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation. The museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies will be renamed the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies and will concentrate on Holocaust studies throughout the world. The center sponsors […]

News Briefs / Holocaust

New Anne Frank Theater to Open in Amsterdam

By JTA

A new theater dedicated to the story of Anne Frank is slated to open in the Dutch capital ahead of the 70th anniversary of the teenage diarist’s deportation and death. The new theater, which is in the final stages of construction, was first shown to media on Wednesday and will feature a permanent show titled […]

News Briefs / Holocaust

Holocaust Survivor Dies before Able to Testify for Md. Rail Bill

By JTA

Leo Bretholz, who had escaped from a train transporting him to a Nazi death camp, died the weekend before he was to testify on behalf of a Maryland bill making railroad firms accountable for their actions during the Holocaust. Bretholz, of Baltimore, died on Saturday, two days after his 93rd birthday. He was to testify […]

US / News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust

Germany Urged to Resolve Greek Holocaust Ransom Issue

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The World Jewish Congress urged Germany to address a request by the Greek Jewish community of Thessaloniki to be paid back for a ransom it had surrendered to the Nazis when they occupied Greece during the Second World War. In 1942, the Greek Jewish community paid 1.9 billion drachmas (about $61 million in today's money) […]

News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Holocaust

Documentary on Oldest Shoah Survivor Wins Oscar a Week after Her Death

By JTA

“The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life” won the Academy Award for documentary short Sunday night.

US / News Briefs / Holocaust

Maryland School Bus Kills Holocaust Survivor

By JTA

A school bus killed a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor as he was crossing a street in a Maryland suburb of Washington. Elia Miranski was using a walker when the bus hit him in Silver Spring near Washington D.C., on Wednesday, the Silver Spring Patch news site reported. He died later that day in a hospital. The […]

Israel / Global / Holocaust

Israel Donates 300 Copies of Anne Frank’s Diary to Tokyo Libraries

By JTA

Israel’s embassy in Japan is donating 300 copies of Anne Frank’s “Diary of a Young Girl” to Tokyo libraries following a vandalism spree. More than 300 copies of the diary and other books about Anne Frank have been found damaged in libraries throughout the country’s capital. Police have established a task force to investigate the […]

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Media / Holocaust

'Mein Kampf' Signed by Adolf Hitler in LA Auction

By Jewish Press News Desk

Two rare early editions of “Mein Kampf” signed by Adolf Hitler may for more than $20,000 at an online auction on Thursday, AP reports. Nate Sanders, owner of Nate D. Sanders Auctions in Los Angeles, expects criticism for auctioning the 1925 and 1926 books up for bid. But he says that it’s a piece of […]

Iran / News Briefs / Holocaust

Iran Lawmakers Summon Foreign Minister over Holocaust Condemnation

By JTA

The foreign minister of Iran was summoned to a closed session of the country’s parliament to clarify public comments he made condemning the Holocaust. Some 54 hard-line lawmakers signed the petition summoning Mohammad Javad Zarif to the session, Reuters reported, citing the official Iranian news agency IRNA. The Holocaust was “tragically cruel and should not […]

News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Thessaloniki Jews Suing Germany in European Human Rights Court

By JTA

The Jewish community of Thessaloniki is suing Germany for the return of a ransom paid during the Nazi occupation of Greece. The papers were filed Friday in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, the community’s president, David Saltiel, told JTA. The move to the European court comes after a struggle of two […]

News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust

German Police Three Auschwitz Guard Suspects

By Jewish Press News Desk

German police arrested three men in their 80s and 90s Thursday on suspicion of accessory to murder when they were guards at the Auschwitz death camp. Three others, all in their 90s, may also be arrested if police uncover enough evidence to warrant putting them on trial. "This is a major step," said Nazi hunter […]

News Briefs / Europe / Russia / Holocaust / Judaism

Rabbi Finds 103 Torah Scrolls Stolen from Jews in Hungary

By Jewish Press News Desk

A senior Hungarian rabbi said Tuesday he has found 103 Torah scrolls that were stolen from Hungarian Jews in World War II and hidden in a Russian library in Novgorod, east of Moscow. Russia has not decided what to do with the holy scrolls, which Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation Chief Rabbi Shlomo Koves wants to […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Israeli Ambassador: Hungary Not Ready to Face Its Shoah Role

By JTA

Israel’s foreign ministry accused Hungary of not being ready to face its role in the Holocaust. Hungarian Ambassador to Israel Andor Nagy told the Hungarian media over the weekend that Rafi Schultz, deputy director for European Affairs at Israel’s foreign ministry, told Nagy that there were doubts in Israel over Hungary’s willingness to confront its […]

News Briefs / Holocaust

World’s Oldest Holocaust Survivor Stars in Oscar-Nominated Film

By JTA

If there is one movie that must be seen, it is the documentary of a Holocaust survivor now 110.

News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Jewish Groups Back Boycott of Hungary’s Holocaust Commemorations

By JTA

Jewish groups backed the decision by the main Jewish umbrella group in Hungary to boycott official Holocaust memorial year events unless the government reverses policy seen as minimizing the country’s role in the Shoah. The international Jewish organizations urged the Hungarian government to respond to Jewish concerns. “The Jewish community’s decision to protest planned Holocaust […]

Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Holocaust

British MP Apologizes for Equating Palestinian Suffering with Shoah

By JTA

A British lawmaker apologized for remarks comparing Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to Jewish suffering during the Holocaust. Yasmin Qureshi of the Labor Party made her apology in a statement on Friday for remarks she made two days earlier to the Parliament. “The debate was about the plight of the Palestinian people and in no […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Belgian Supermarket Chain Recalls Nazi Prisoner Costume

By JTA

A Belgian supermarket chain has recalled a costume which is meant to allow children to dress up as prisoners of a Nazi concentration camp. The recall was announced Friday by the Delhaize chain in a press release that it issued conjointly with the Belgian League against Anti-Semitism, or LBCA. “Delhaize deplores this incident and regrets […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Hungarian Jews May Use Force to Stop Jobbik Protest

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz) is considering sending people to physically prevent Hungary's ultra-nationalist Jobbik party from holding a rally at a former synagogue on next Friday. Jobbik, which holds 43 of 386 seats in the country's parliament, is planning the rally in a building in the city of Esztergom which had once […]

News Briefs / Holocaust

Anne Frank's Marbles Found

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Anne Frank House Museum has announced that toys Anne Frank gave away before she and her family went into hiding were recovered, and her tin of marbles is going on display this week, at the Kunsthal art gallery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Fox News reported. On July 6, 1942, about two years after the […]

News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Jewish Groups Rejecting Hungary’s Grants for Holocaust Events

By JTA

Several Jewish organizations in Hungary as a form of protest will not accept government grants for memorial events marking the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust. The groups are protesting what they consider the state’s whitewashing of Hungary’s role in the Holocaust. The organizations turning down the grants from the Civil Fund include the Frankel Leo […]

News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust

Report: Croatia Probes Former US Citizen on Auschwitz War Crimes

By JTA

Croatian authorities are investigating a 90-year-old man suspected of committing war crimes as an SS soldier and guard at the Auschwitz death camp. Germany’s Special Prosecutor’s Office for Investigation of Crimes during the Period of National Socialism last month alerted Croatian authorities to the presence in Croatia of Jacob Dencinger, the Croatian news outlet Jutarnji […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust

Lauder: German Museums Should Strive to Return Looted Art

By JTA

German museums must improve their record on identifying and returning Nazi looted art, World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder said. Speaking to some 200 people Tuesday at the Topography of Terror, a museum and documentation center in the German capital, Lauder said that a new commission of independent experts must be appointed to comb through […]

Israel / News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust

Nuremberg Documents Sell at Jerusalem Auction

By JTA

A trove of documents from the Nuremberg Trials found in a flea market in Israel was sold at auction Wednesday for $10,000, a spokesman for the Kedem Auction House in Jerusalem told the Associated Press. The trove of 500 pages, An American collector bought the documents, including some used to convict top Nazis at the […]

News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust

New Jewish Community in Berlin Linked To Pre-War Congregation

By JTA

A new Jewish community was dedicated in the former East Berlin, in the footsteps of one destroyed by the Nazis. In an odd twist, the community has the same name as another Berlin congregation that is mired in legal limbo and debt after failing to prove it has any members. In Tuesday’s ceremonies at the […]

News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust

Nazi-Looted Paintings Going on Auction Block

By JTA

Nazi-looted paintings recovered by the Allies platoon known as the Monuments Men will be sold at auction in New York. The four lots will go on the block at Sotheby’s in New York on Thursday as part of a sale of Old Master paintings and sculpture. Some of the works were owned by the Rothschild […]

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

ADL Accepts Apology from Investor for Kristallnacht Remarks

By JTA

The Anti-Defamation League has accepted the “heartfelt apology” from venture capitalist Thomas Perkins, who likened criticism of the wealthy to Kristallnacht. “We believe that Mr. Perkins now realizes why his Holocaust comparison was so offensive,” the ADL said in a statement after a long conversation Monday between Perkins and the ADL’s national director, Abraham Foxman. […]

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Holocaust

Palestinian Authority Daily Claims Netanyahu Has ‘Nazi Genes’

By Jewish Press News Desk

The official Palestinian Authority daily last week, days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, published an op-ed demonizing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who it said has Nazi genes that he may have “acquired it genetically from the days of the Nazis and the Aryan race." The report, translated and published by the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), […]

News Briefs / Germany / Settlements / Holocaust

Letter Offered Hitler Money to Let Jews Move to Gush Etzion

By Jewish Press News Desk

A recently-discovered letter sent to Hitler in 1939 offered him 100,000 Palestine lira in exchange for allowing Jews to buy land in Gush Etzion and move to Israel. The proposal, which was sent in a letter dated April 9, 1939, but was not carried out. Researchers at the Kfar Etzion Museum found a copy of […]

Government / Antisemitism / News Briefs / The Knesset / Holocaust

Largest Knesset Delegation Ever Tours Auschwitz

By JTA

Dozens of lawmakers from Israel, the United States and Europe convened at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau for ceremonies commemorating its liberation 69 years ago. The largest foreign parliamentary delegation landed in Poland from Israel on Monday, Jan. 27 — the day that the United Nations in 2005 designated as International Holocaust Remembrance […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Holocaust Historian Returns Honor from Hungary over ‘Whitewash’

By JTA

Holocaust historian Randoph Braham is returning a high honor from the Hungarian state as a protest against attempts to whitewash Hungary’s role in the Holocaust, Braham said in a letter quoted by the Hungarian state news agency MTI on Sunday. Braham, 91, a Holocaust survivor, wrote that he was handing back the Cross of the […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Gulf States / UAE / Holocaust

First Time in the Arab World: Events Marking the Holocaust

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Two unusual events relating to Holocaust remembrance recently took place in the Arab world – a first official conference on the Holocaust in Tunisia and the first visit by an Arab diplomat to a Holocaust memorial site, when Bahraini ambassador to France Nasser Al-Balushi visited a memorial near Paris. The Middle East Media Research Institute […]

US / News Briefs / Holocaust

White House Names First Envoy for Holocaust Survivor Services

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The White House on Friday announced the appointment of Aviva Sufian as the first Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Special Envoy for U.S. Holocaust Survivor Services. Vice President Joe Biden had announced the formation of the new position in December 2013. Sufian “will focus on those [Holocaust] survivors currently living in poverty, as […]

News Briefs / Holocaust

Nazi ‘Death Train ‘Car to Be Displayed in Netanya

By Jewish Press News Desk

An authentic German train car that transported Jews to concentration camps will be placed at the Netanya Memorial Site and service as a “living monument” and educational center in memory of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust The car will arrive in Netanya tomorrow on Friday and will be the first time it has been […]

News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust

Germany to Pay Amsterdam Jews for ‘Voluntary’ Ghetto Labor

By JTA

More than 1,000 people have applied for new compensation of a one-time payment of $2,700 from Germany for labor performed in Amsterdam’s Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust. The compensation is offered to people who lived in three districts of the Dutch capital that served as ghettos for the city’s Jewish community during the German occupation […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Hungarian Jewish Leaders Accuse Government of Minimizing Holocaust

By JTA

Hungarian Jewish leaders demanded the resignation of a key government appointee and threatened to boycott government-sponsored events marking the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust in Hungary. In an unusually strong statement posted Sunday on its website, the leadership of Mazsihisz, the official Hungarian Jewish umbrella organization, said they were “aghast and find incomprehensible” the “relativization […]

US / News Briefs / Holocaust

Senate Considers Plight of Impoverished Holocaust Survivors

By JTA

The U.S. Senate’s Special Committee on Aging held a hearing on the plight of Holocaust survivors in the United States. Both Republicans and Democrats on the committee said at the Wednesday hearing that survivors are better off aging at home. “The emphasis on caring for aging survivors must be on creating a safe space surrounded […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust

Berlin Chabad to Display Newly Discovered Nuremberg Trials Evidence

By JTA

Juliana Rangel, icj, Nuremberg trials, isaac stone, kedem, Chabad Berlin

Antisemitism / News Briefs / The Knesset / Holocaust

Knesset Bill Proposed to Outlaw Nazi Slogans

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Knesset easily passed on preliminary reading on Wednesday a bill that would make it illegal to use the word Nazi and Nazi symbols, but Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein said the measure violates freedom of speech. Only 19 Knesset Members voted against the bill, sponsored by Likud Knesset Member Shimon Ohayon, with 44 in favor, […]

News Briefs / Europe / Sports / Holocaust

Polish Prosecutors Clear Auschwitz Soccer Chanters

By JTA

Several Jewish organizations have criticized a Polish prosecutor’s decision not to try soccer fans who chanted about Jews and Auschwitz. A spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office of Poznan in central Poland said last week that no charges would be brought against the fans because they did not mean to offend Jews when they chanted the […]

UK / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Hitchcock Holocaust Documentary to be Screened

By JTA

A documentary about the Holocaust by Alfred Hitchcock will be screened for the first time as the renowned late director intended, a British newspaper reported. “Memory of the Camps,” as the film is titled now, will be screened on British television early next year to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Europe, according […]

News Briefs / France / Holocaust / Assimilation

Antisemitic French Comic Drops Tour

By JTA

Amid an investigation into his finances and bans on his shows because of anti-Semitic content, the French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala said he was abandoning his nationwide tour. Dieudonne made the announcement Saturday at a news conference in which he appeared dressed in traditional West African garb — his mother was born in Cameroon. “Today, […]

Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Media / Holocaust

Watch Hitchcock Holocaust Documentary Suppressed by the British

By Jewish Press Staff

By the time Hitchcock's film was finished, the allies' political needs had changed.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / France / Holocaust

Dieudonne Fans Bring Down French JDL Website

By JTA

Supporters of the anti-Semitic comedian Dieudonne hijacked three French pro-Israel websites in a coordinated cyber attack. The attack Thursday paralyzed the websites Israel-Flash.com, Europe-Israel.org and liguedefensejuive.com, the website of the French Jewish Defense League, and replaced their content with messages of support for Dieudonne, Le Nouvel Observateur reported. On the hijacked websites, the hackers called […]

News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust

Hungarian Jewish Leader Decries German Occupation Monument

By JTA

The president of Hungary’s Jewish umbrella group criticized a planned monument to victims of the Germany occupation for ignoring Hungary’s complicity in the Holocaust. The memorial announced Thursday would be built in Budapest’s Freedom Square and pay tribute to “all Hungarian victims with the erection of the monument commemorating the tragic German occupation and the […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Sports / Holocaust

Nazi-Era Soccer Program with Swastika Up for Auction

By Jewish Press News Desk

Nazi lovers and sports fans now have chance to add a Nazi-era soccer poster, complete with a swastika, to their collections. A Nazi-era poster of soccer game between Ireland and Germany, represented by a picture of a swastika, is going on sale at an auction in Dublin.The poster is expected to bring in up to […]

News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Artwork in German Parliament May Have Been Nazi-Looted

By JTA

Two artworks hanging in Germany’s parliament building in Berlin may have been confiscated or acquired at artificially depressed prices by the Nazis from the original owners, German newspapers reported. The Die Welt newspaper suggested that one of the works coincidentally stems from a gallery owned by an uncle of Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazi-era dealer whose […]

The Courts / News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust / Assimilation

German Jewish Family Fighting 22 Years to Reclaim Its Land

By Jewish Press News Desk

German-American non-Jewish attorney Peter Sonnenthal and his family, which has Jewish roots (his grandmother was Jewish and perished in Auschwitz) have been fighting for more than two decades to reclaim lucrative properties stolen from them under the Nazi regime, Spiegel reported, adding that Sonnenthal continues to face legal hurdles in trying to restore this legacy. […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Greek City to Build Holocaust Museum and Research Center

By JTA

The northern Greek city of Thessaloniki will build a Holocaust research center at the site where some 50,000 of the city’s Jews were deported to Nazi death camps. “This is the fulfilment of a historic responsibility for Thessaloniki,” city Mayor Yiannis Boutaris told reporters. The agreement to establish the Memorial Center on Holocaust Education Remembrance […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

German Town Revokes Hitler's Honorary Citizenship

By Jewish Press News Desk

The testimony of a woman whose family was exterminated by the Nazi helped convinced a Bavarian town council to vote unanimously to revoke the honorary citizen that the municipality had granted Hitler in 1933. The town council of Dietramszell was deadlocked over whether to adopt the resolution revoking the honorary citizenship after the discovery of […]

NY / Politics / News Briefs / Holocaust / Local

Happy Birthday, Mr. Wallenberg, and Thank You for All Those Lives

By Daniel Perez

Young Israel celebrates the life of the diplomat turned wartime hero.

News Briefs / Russia / Holocaust

Russian Jews Win Rostov Holocaust Commemoration Fight

By JTA

The Russian city of Rostov-on-Don has agreed to acknowledge the Jewish identity of Holocaust victims killed there by the Nazis. The municipality’s Memorial Council last week announced its decision to revise a memorial plaque at the Zmievskaya Balka mass grave to mention the Jewish identity of the majority of the approximately 27,000 bodies buried there […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Bavaria Will not Reprint Hitler’s’ Mein Kampf’ In 2014

By Jewish Press News Desk

Bavaria has decided to scrap its plans to reprint Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" with critical commentary when a legal ban by Germany on republishing it expires at the end of 2015. Germany owns the book’s copyright because Hitler, born in Austria, was registered as a resident of Munich. He wrote the autobiographical "Mein Kampf" (My […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Anne Frank Sapling Cut Down, Stolen in Germany

By JTA

A sapling that came from the tree that stood outside the hiding place of Anne Frank in Amsterdam was cut down and stolen in Frankfurt, German police  said. Unidentified parties cut down the 8-foot tree outside the Anne Frank School sometime between last week and Monday, according to a report Tuesday by the Dutch public […]

News Briefs / Holocaust

Court Allows Jewish Family to Pursue Nazi-Looted Painting

By JTA

A Jewish family may proceed with its legal battle to recover a valuable painting surrendered to the Nazis following a ruling by a U.S. appeals court on lost artwork. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Monday reinstated a California law allowing lawsuits to recover artwork lost as long as 100 […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Canada Sends Ex-Jobbik Leader Packing before Montreal Speech

By JTA

Canadian immigration officials this week ordered a former leader of the ultra-nationalist Jobbik party in Hungary out of the country prior to a speaking engagement in Montreal. Csanad Szegedi was sent back to Budapest on a plane just before he was slated to address a Chabad group. Approximately 200 people who came out to hear […]

The Courts / News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust

German Court: Nazi War Criminal Unfit for Trial

By JTA

Accused Nazi war criminal Hans Lipschis was released from custody in Germany after being diagnosed with dementia. The arrest warrant against Lipschis, 94, was canceled Friday due to a psychiatrist’s determination that the alleged former SS guard at Auschwitz was suffering from the early stages of the illness and therefore might not sufficiently understand and […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Germany / Holocaust

German Satirical Novel about Return of Hitler to Become Movie

By JTA

A best-selling German satirical novel about the return of Adolf Hitler to modern-day Germany is being adapted into a film. “Er Ist Wieder Da,” German for “He’s Back,” sold 1.3 million copies in Germany after its 2012 release. In the book, Hitler awakens in modern-day Berlin and garners enough attention to become host of his […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / France / Holocaust

French Firm's Cleaning Product Name Sounds Like Nazis’ Zyklon B

By Jewish Press News Desk

The French-based "IPC – Sa" Firm said it will change the name of its deterging product from “Cyclone B,” almost the same as that of the infamous Nazi gas "Zyklon B," after strong condemnation by European Jewish Association  General Director, Rabbi Menachem Margolin The Nazis used "cyclone B"  gas to exterminate Jews in death camps […]

NY / News Briefs / Holocaust

Jewish Survivor Meets his Polish Rescuer at JFK

By Jewish Press Staff

The interpreter was crying while translating the Polish rescuer's response.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Railway Museum Opposes Memorial to Holocaust Victims Shipped by Train

By JTA

The same Museum has thwarted earlier attempts to honor the victims.

Israel / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust / Judaism

Dutch Christians’ Mega-Menorah Helps Jews Come Out of their Shell

By JTA

Nearly 70 years after the Holocaust, some European Jew still are afraid to be confident enough to be Jewish in public. Christina Zionists are trying to help them, buy aliyah to Israel would be a lot easier.

Israel / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

President Peres Honors Elie Wiesel in New York

By JTA

Elie Wiesel received the President’s Medal of Distinction from Israeli President Shimon Peres in a ceremony in New York Monday night. Wiesel, a survivor of Auschwitz and author of more than 40 books, was awarded Israel’s highest civilian medal for “his unique contribution to the memorial of the Holocaust and in light of his uncompromising […]

Israel / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Awareness Campaign Sparks Probes of Alleged Nazi War Criminals

By JTA

At least four investigations of possible Nazi-era war criminals have been turned over to German investigators in recent months after being identified as a result of an awareness campaign by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. “Operation Last Chance II,” launched in 2011 and expanded Monday with a new poster campaign, has yielded hundreds of calls and […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Ukrainian Jewish Leaders: Romania Unfit to Lead Holocaust Body

By JTA

Ukrainian Jewish leaders said Romania was unfit to head a Holocaust remembrance forum because it has not done enough to come to grips with its own Holocaust-era culpability. Approximately 380,000 Jews were murdered in Romania-controlled areas during the Holocaust, according to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. “Romania’s actions prove it is not ready […]

Global / News Briefs / Holocaust

Paraguay Jews Open New Holocaust Studies Center

By JTA

The Jewish community of Paraguay inaugurated a new Jewish museum which includes the country’s first Holocaust studies center. The Walter Kochmann Jewish Museum of Paraguay, which opened to the public last week, has been under construction for the past 11 years, according to a report by the news site ABC.com.py. The museum is located inside […]

UK / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust / Judaism

Haggadah Manuscript Found in a Garage May Fetch $1.5 million

By Jewish Press News Desk

The auction sale of an illustrated Haggadah manuscript dating back to 1726 is expected to bring in as much as $1.5 million, the London Independent reported Tuesday. An auctioneer discovered it in an Osem soup carton in the garage at a house in Manchester where he was carrying out a routine evaluation for the relatives […]

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Getzlight – Chapter IV

By Ruchama Feuerman

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