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News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust

Germany to Pay Additional $88 Million to 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.

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.

Conversations With Heroes

Conversations With Heroes - A Firsthand Account of Fleeing The Nazis

By Israel News Talk Radio

The Gottlieb family had front row seats from their home in Germany during Kristallnacht and the rise of the Nazi Party.

Photo of the Day

Victory Day

By Photo of the Day

Russian-Israeli World War 2 veterans celebrate 71 years since the Allies victory over Nazi Germany, with a parade in Jerusalem on May 8, 2016.

News Briefs / South America / Holocaust

Eichmann’s Daughter in Law Realizes ‘Grandpa’ Is Career Killer

By JNi.Media

“Grandpa,” she argued, “wasn’t a bad person, he obeyed orders and did not personally kill anyone.”

Israel / Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Holocaust

Netanyahu Attacks Deniers of Mufti-Holocaust Links

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The Prime Minister kept the connection of the Muslim leader with Hitler in the headlines just prior to visiting Germany.

Arts / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Holocaust

New Book Displays All the Art Göring Stole from Jews

By JNi.Media

While being questioned at Nuremberg, Göring was “humble” about having pulled off one of the most extensive theft of artwork in history...

News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust

Former Auschwitz Radio Operator Charged with Accessory to Murder

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

A 91-year-old SS woman aided operations that led to the murder of 260,000 Jews.

News Briefs / France / Germany / Holocaust

Ashes of Holocaust Victims Buried after Secretly Kept in French School

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Their remains had been kept in jars and test tubes in a French medical school.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Germany

Nazis Continue to have their Evils Undone

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Denied her doctorate by the Nazis, 102 year old woman will finally receive it, nearly 80 years later.

The Yishai Fleisher Show on JewishPress.com

Surviving Auschwitz: Kate Bernath's Testimonial

By Moshe Herman

Yishai is joined in-studio by 88-year-old Kate Bernath, grandmother of his wife, Malkah, to hear her Holocaust testimonial: What was it like as a Hungarian Jew getting off the train at Auschwitz, and how it felt to have your mother separated from you forever by Dr. Mengele.

Antisemitism / Germany / Holocaust

Ex-Auschwitz Guard Charged with 300,000 Counts of Accessory to Murder

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Oskar Groening’s defense is that he only was cog in the Nazi death machine.

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 / 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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

Op-Eds

A Palestinian State – Would it Further US Interests?!

By Yoram Ettinger

Independent Congressional scrutiny of this Palestinian state-driven policy is doubly-essential.

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 […]

Israel / US / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Obituaries / Holocaust

‘Rain on Entebbe’ Producer Daniel Blatt Dies at Age 76 in LA

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Daniel Blatt was a typical success story of a Jew who left behind his Jewish education. He said that after he produced “Rain on Entebbe,” he came back to his Jewish roots. Blatt died in Los Angeles at the age of 76.

Israel / Holocaust

Holocaust Researcher Yisrael Gutman Dies at 90 in Jerusalem

By Jewish Press News Desk

Warsaw Ghetto survivor and researcher Israel Gutman has died in Jerusalem at the age of 90. He was born in Warsaw, where he was wounded in the Jewish uprising against the Nazis in 1943. He is survived by two daughters and three grandchildren. Gutman survived three concentration and death camps, including Auschwitz, but his parents […]

Israel / News Briefs / Egypt / Holocaust

Yad Vashem Cites Egyptian Doctor as Righteous Among the Nations

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Yad Vashem recently recognized Dr. Mohamed Helmy and Frieda Szturmann as Righteous Among the Nations, an honorary title bestowed by Yad Vashem on behalf of the State of Israel and the Jewish people to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Dr. Helmy, an Egyptian physician living in Berlin and Szturmann, […]

US / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Holocaust

Hollywood Collaborated With the Nazi Regime

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Harvard scholar and author Ben Urwand tries to destroy any impression that Hollywood fought the Nazi regime. His new book claims the opposite – that Jews in Hollywood actually collaborated with Hitler.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Holocaust Hideout in Warsaw Destroyed by Polish Couple

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

A Polish couple pleaded guilty to the desecration of a historic site for destroying a Holocaust-era Jewish hideout in the Warsaw apartment the couple was renting. The hideout was made into an official historic monument in 1999. A Holocaust hideout built by a Warsaw ghetto inmate was destroyed by a polish couple who pleaded guilty […]

News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust

Hitler’s ‘I Knew Nothing’ Bodyguard Dies at 96

By JTA

Adolf Hitler’s bodyguard, who claimed he knew nothing about the Nazi extermination of 6 million Jews. Has died at the age of 96. SS Staff Sgt. Rochus Misch was at Hitler’s side he and Eva Braun committed suicide before the Allies could capture them. Braun, who was his mistress until a quick marriage ceremony shortly […]

News Briefs / Germany / Holocaust

Germany Wants to Indict 30 Auschwitz Nazi Guards

By Jewish Press News Desk

Judicial officials in Germany have investigated 49 former Nazi guards at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp and said 30 of them should be prosecuted, while nine others have since died Another seven of the former guards are living outside of the country. Some of the guards are reportedly as old as 97. The justice agency in […]

Israel / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Turkey / Egypt

Lieberman ‘Promotes’ Erdogan as the New Joseph Goebbels

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Egypt said it is “bewildered” over Erdogan’s blaming Israel for Morsi’s ouster. The US said he was “offensive.” But the piece de resistance came from Avigdor Lieberman, who called him the new Goebbels.

Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust

For Whom the Bell Tolls? In Austria, For Hitler

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Austrian be violating its own law against praising Hitler and Nazism. For 80 years, it owned a castle where a large bell, inscribed with praise for Hurler, has rung every hour for 80 years.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Croatian Synagogue Demolished by Fascists to be Rebuilt

By JTA

The Jewish community of Zagreb, Croatia, is moving ahead with plans to rebuild a synagogue destroyed in the World War II. “We are conducting examinations in Prague Street on the site of our destroyed synagogue in order to rebuild it,” said a statement from the local Jewish community, quoted Thursday by the Jutarnji newspaper. Today, […]

This Ongoing War

Will Appeasing Hezbollah Work Better than it Did with Nazi Germany?

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

Hezbollah has not always been as open about the murderous role it is playing in the Syrian killing fields.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Dreyfus Letter Fetches nearly $500,000 at Paris Auction

By JTA

A letter handwritten by Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jewish soldier who was wrongly convicted of treason in 1894, was sold at auction for nearly half a million dollars. The letter, which Dreyfus sent from prison to government officials in an attempt to clear his name, was sold Wednesday for $492,000 at an auction organized by […]

NY / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Holocaust

Nazi-Looted Art to Return to Heirs of N.Y. Collector

By JTA

Two artworks sold under duress during the Nazi occupation of Germany will be returned to the heirs of New York art collector Michael Berolzheimer, who died in 1942 after escaping from Germany and settling in suburban WestchesterCounty. Berolzheimer and his family fled from Germany in 1938 after selling his art under duress, traveling first to […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Last Survivor of Plot to Kill Hitler Dies at 90

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, who was a Nazi Germany army lieutenant volunteered to blew himself up along with Hitler, died at his Munich home as the age of 90. The suicide bomb plot never was carried out, but von Kleist later was part of a group that unsuccessfully tried to kill Hitler in July 1944. He […]

Op-Eds

Seventy Years Later, White Rose Anti-Nazi Resistance Still Resonates

By Jud Newborn

Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans and the student group White Rose protested Nazi atrocities, including the murder of Jews. In 1943, the Scholl siblings and their comrade Christoph Probst were caught, tried in a show trial and beheaded.

Jewish / NY / News Briefs

Today in 1934 - Brooklyn Jewish Women Help Refugees from Nazi Germany

By JTA

SEPTEMBER 5, 1934 - Mrs. Stephen S. Wise, president of the Women's Association of the American Jewish Congress, who has just returned from a visit to the German refugee centers in Europe, will be hostess this afternoon to 500 Brooklyn women who have pledged to support the establishment of a center in New York City for refugees from Nazi Germany.

News Briefs

Hungarian House Speaker to Elie Wiesel: Writers Will Be Writers

By Jewish Press News Desk

Hungary's House Speaker László Kövér has replied to Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, who recently renounced a Hungarian state honor in protest at what he sees as the government toleration of rising anti-Semitic sentiment, the Budapest Times reported. Kövér defended Hungarian writer József Nyírõ, who was a member of parliament for the wartime fascist […]

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter II

By Ruchama Feuerman

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