By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The musician also likened Anne Frank to Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Aqleh.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Historian reveals that Irmgard Kroymann was never a prisoner at Gross-Rosen camp, but volunteered to work there.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The daughter of Holocaust survivors is cheapening and ripping up the [memory] of the holy six million [Jews who were killed by the Nazis],” responded the Israeli National Security Minister.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to heir's lawsuit, Sompo’s predecessor purchased the picture “in reckless disregard of its provenance, including Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s forced sale of the painting in Nazi Germany in 1934.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
An estimated 65,000 individuals died at the camp near Gdansk, including "Jewish captives, Polish partisans, and Soviet Russian prisoners of war," according to prosecutors.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"This light is a strong societal symbol against hatred," said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s ambassador to Berlin retweeted an article claiming the offending security guard was of “Arab descent,” and connected the incident with P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas’s claim that Israel had perpetrated “50 Holocausts.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Cobb County’s history with anti-Semitism should have prevented something like this,” said the Jewish Federation of Atlanta.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“No family should be confronted with threatening symbols of hate, least of all on vacation,” said museum chair Michael Igel.
By Israel Hayom
After an Israeli court halted the sale of the tattoo stamps following an outcry, the anonymous seller has decided to donate them to the Haifa Holocaust Museum.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The white stickers, which say “We are everywhere” and include the Nazi symbol in the middle, were first discovered at a bar called “Mad Myrna’s,” and later in the day, at the Jewish museum.
By Orit Arfa
“Germany killed 6 million Jews in World War II, in the Holocaust, and now Germany wants to tell Israel how to defend its security,” said Marcel Goldhammer, a journalist with both German and Israeli citizenship.
Antisemitism never seems to die.
The Holocaust, Kristallnacht, and harrowing reports of conditions in concentration camps, as described by a British Senior doctor during his visit just after liberation.
The most powerful week on the Israeli secular calendar is one that storms the Heavens and screams "ZIONISM"!
The Polish nation is passing a bill threatening a prison sentence of up to three years to anyone using the phrase “Polish death camps” to describe the extermination camps in Poland during WWII.
By JNi.Media
Some German fans started singing the correct German anthem, buy were drowned out by the Nazi tune on the loudspeakers.
By JNi.Media
Dusseldorf art gallery owner Max Stern was expelled from the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts in 1935, because of his religion, and was forced to sell his collection.
New Yorkers are stepping up in the face up rising anti-Semitic incidents.
By Batya Medad
There is no equivalency between the Jews who were persecuted and threatened with certain death during the Holocaust and today's Arabs clamoring to leave their troubled countries. Period.
By JNi.Media
A pendant discovered in Sobibór bears close resemblance to one owned by Anne Frank.
By JNi.Media
For the record, we are NOT living in Nazi Germany, and next time the president wants to use the N word, he should call up Jonathan Greenblatt.
By JNi.Media
The Franklins woke up to discover a crumpled anti-Semitic note–all caps–on their car windshield, with a yellow star and the word 'Jude,' Nazi style.
Although six decades have since passed, the Kastner Affair remains highly controversial.
By JNi.Media
Rudolf-August Oetker was the grandson of Dr. August Oetker. He ran the company from 1944 to 1981.
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
German Culture Minister Monika Grütters told the New York Times last March that a Jewish member on the committee “would be the only voice who would be prejudiced.”
By Edwin Black
Understanding Nazism and the Holocaust is important for Blacks, Roma, people with disabilities, the gay community, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and other groups in addition to Jews.
Rivlin addressed the Holocaust survivors attending the ceremony, asking for their help in extracting the meaning of the tragedy and lessons to be learned.
Zikaron ba-Salon is a social initiative started six years ago by a group of friends who felt they needed a more direct and unfiltered way of connecting with the memory of the Holocaust on the solemn day.
Russia and Israel are partners in the struggle against revisionist history, Russian officials said.
By JNi.Media
26.1% have a German citizenship; 54% live with a spouse who is a German national; and 54.4% have parents or grandparents who are Holocaust survivors.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A 91-year-old SS woman aided operations that led to the murder of 260,000 Jews.
Their remains had been kept in jars and test tubes in a French medical school.
By JNi.Media
“I mean, the Nazis did terrible evil but they ... [did] try to hide it. These people boast about their evil,” Abbott said.
By JNi.Media
The death bed confessions of a former Nazi soldier revealed the whereabouts of the “Nazi train” which remained hidden for decades in tunnels in Poland and is thought to contain gold, art and other valuables.
The management of the former death camp says there was no intention to remind people of the gas "showers."
By JNi.Media
Europe’s biggest Jewish sports event will take place in Germany—for the first time in its history.
"The Jewish people and the State of Israel owe an eternal debt to Nicholas Winton who singlehandedly saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Nazis," Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Thursday after hearing of his death. Winton died in Britain at the age of 106. He saved hundreds of Jewish children from the gas chambers […]
God may forgive. He never forgets.
The Palestinian Authority chairman compared the Israeli Prime Minister with the notorious Nazi.
Thousands of former Nazi war criminals lied their way into the United States and later received old-age benefits.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony marking the victory day on Nazi Germany, 70 years ago, in Latrun on May 7, 2015.
“We cannot guarantee that a humanitarian catastrophe of the extent of the Holocaust will not happen again,” said Red Cross President Peter Maurer.
By Shalom Bear
The Russian government’s plan to rid the capital Moscow of swastikas and everything else of Nazi origin, in time for Victory Day.
Oskar Groening's admission of crimes and denial of guilt exposes the depths and truth of evil.
The teacher could face three years in jail for displaying Nazi symbols, which includes singing Nazi songs.
Nazi symbols were written on the walls of a building that may have been designated as shelters for Nazi leaders.
Last night I arrived to a Bayit Yehudi campaign event in Haifa. My security detail would not let me enter the building because of radical leftist activists who had entered the hall...
An IDF soldier at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem. Tuesday, January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On January 27, 1945 the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated by Soviet forces.
Greek Jewish cemetery vandalized, graffiti called for "six million more."
By JTA
Anti-Semites always are around to remind Jews to be scared.
Document proves she not only slept with senior Nazis but also spied for them.
By Tibbi Singer
The average Israeli is remarkably stupid and thick-headed when it comes to the sanctity of freedom of speech.
By JTA
He explains he was just following that other people were doing. Sound familiar?
The crimes from the Nazi regime still are being discovered.
By JTA
The Gurlitt Museum promises all looted art will be returned to the rightful owners.
Does democracy allow even a legislator to call a fellow MK a “fascist?
The question remains why they advertised the anti-Semitic rings.
Oskar Groening’s defense is that he only was cog in the Nazi death machine.
How many times have you heard anti-semites spew words like Israel are Nazis, or what you are doing to the Arabs is worse that what the Nazis did to the Jews?!...
By JTA
Greek police officers are among those who support the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party.
By JTA
One of Woronyj’s neighbors, who did not want to be named, said he was “a big man who kept himself to himself.”
Trivialization of the Holocaust has reached new lows.
It is one thing “never to forget,” and it is another to remember not to let it happen again.
A survivors’ daughter serving in the IDF brings pride and joy to a Holocaust survivor.
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 […]
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 […]
One or more anti-Semites sent a package of suspicious white powder and a photograph of Nazis to the home of Ireland’s Justice Minister Alan Shatter on Wednesday. Security officials raised an emergency alert, and a bomb squad arrived to investigate. Officials concluded the powder was harmless baking powder. The photograph showed Nazi soldiers at a […]
On April 1, 1933, the Nazis carried out their first nationwide boycott of Jewish businesses. Today we would call that BDS.
What would have been the reaction if the actor dressed up as KKK members, just for the sake if history?
By JTA
Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch rightist, pro-Israel Party for Freedom, called for The Hague to be home to fewer Moroccans, which led an opposing candidate to compare him to Hitler. Wilders, an anti-Islam and anti-immigration politician and a supporter of Israel, made the comments last week during a campaign event. Local elections in Holland […]
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 […]
Nazi stamps used to tattoo death camp prisons are proof of the evil system as Holocaust survivors’ numbers dwindle.
The youth wing of Sweden’s Liberal party organized a “love bombing” Monday night and pasted heart-shaped papers on the same school that was attacked by neo-Nazi vandals the night before. Stockholm’s “Vasa Real” school was sprayed with swastikas and slogans, such as “disgusting Jews” and the number 1488 that is a symbol for white power […]
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 […]
By JTA
If there is one movie that must be seen, it is the documentary of a Holocaust survivor now 110.
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 […]
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), […]
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 […]
Recently published photographs of people allegedly tortured by the regime of Syrian President Bassar al-Assad brought out the Nazi comparisons Wednesday by Syrian opposition leader Ahmed Jarba. Speaking to the Geneva II talks, he said, "The pictures of torture are unprecedented except in the Nazi camps during the Second World War.” The photos were provided […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
By JTA
French police are searching for an unidentified man who performed an anti-Semitic gesture at three locales connected to the murder of Jews. A photo of the suspect surfaced last week online in which he performed the quenelle, a quasi-Nazi salute, in front of the Toulouse school where the Muslim extremist Mohammed Merah murdered four Jews […]
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 […]
By JTA
National Basketball Association star Tony Parker has apologized for performing an anti-Semitic salute after a three-year-old photo was published in the French media. The photo shows Parker, who was born in Belgium and is French by nationality, performing the quenelle salute earlier this year standing next to the gesture’s founder, anti-Semitic French comedian Dieudonne Mlaba […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By JTA
The street in front of the Bulgarian Embassy in Washington has been renamed Dimitar Peshev Plaza, in honor of the man credited with halting the deportation of about 50,000 Jews. In March 1943, Peshev, who was the deputy speaker of the Bulgarian Parliament at the time, heard of a deportation order and decided he had […]
By JTA
German authorities have bowed to international pressure and are publishing a partial list of artworks found in a Munich apartment. The spectacular art find – including works by Chagall, Picasso, Matisse and Beckmann – was publicized by the Munich-based Focus magazine earlier this month. Officials are assembling a “task force” of experts to speed up provenance research. […]
Anti-Semitism is for Europeans, right? Sure, there is a swastika here or there in the US, but would a NY restaurant manager mock a Jewish worker and make fun of the Holocaust? Yes, he can. Aliyah, anyone?
By JTA
A Greek court has ordered the head of the ultranationalist Golden Dawn party held in jail until his trial following six hours of testimony that ran through the night. Nikolaos Michaloliakos was arrested last week with several other lawmakers and senior Golden Dawn members on charges of forming a criminal organization, part of an unprecedented […]
By JTA
Two French soldiers who posed in front of a Paris synagogue a few weeks ago while making an anti-Semitic gesture will be sanctioned by the French army. The soldiers of the Alpine Hunters elite unit currently are the subject of an investigation, the French military’s spokesperson, Bruno Louisfert, told radio station RTL France Tuesday. He […]
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 […]