US Supreme Court to hear two cases related to Holocaust restitution
(December 4, 2020 / JNS) The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases on Dec. 7 related to the issue of Holocaust restitution. The court will decide if the United States has the jurisdiction, in...
View Article‘Jesus Wins’ spray-painted on synagogue and Holocaust monument in Greece
(JTA) — An unidentified man spray-painted the words “Jesus Wins” in black on the walls of a synagogue in Greece and a nearby Holocaust monument. The incident Thursday in Larissa, in northern Greece,...
View ArticleHistorical novel on Holland’s largest Holocaust rescue operation slammed for...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — It was meant as an ode to one of the most courageous yet little-known rescue efforts of Jews during the Holocaust. But a week after its publication, a Dutch-language historical novel...
View ArticleTrump administration wants Holocaust restitution cases heard outside US. The...
(JTA) — The Trump administration’s claim that Holocaust restitution cases should be heard in the countries where the crimes occurred, and not in the United States, met with skepticism on Monday in the...
View ArticleDutch government criticizes country’s own Holocaust restitution policy that...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — In the Netherlands, proving that the Nazis stole artwork from your family isn’t always enough to claim it back. Departing from norms across Europe, the kingdom’s policy is to weigh...
View ArticleFarmers desecrate Jewish cemetery in Ukraine
(JTA) — Part of a Jewish cemetery in Ukraine was desecrated by farmers who added it to their adjacent fields, a local television station reported. The desecration happened three years ago in...
View ArticleHalle synagogue shooter denies the Holocaust in closing statement of his trial
(JTA) — The perpetrator of a terrorist attack on a synagogue in Halle, Germany denied the Holocaust during his closing statement in court. Stephan Balliet, a far-right extremist, has confessed to...
View ArticlePolish diplomat in Istanbul rescued hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust,...
(JTA) – A Polish diplomat serving in Turkey during World War II helped save hundreds of Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis by issuing them false certificates that identified them as Christians, an...
View ArticleRio inaugurates long-awaited Holocaust memorial with 72-foot-tall tower
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Rio de Janeiro inaugurated a Holocaust memorial that includes a 72-foot-tall tower and overlooks the Sugarloaf Mountain, one of South America’s most famous landmarks. Several...
View ArticlePolish Holocaust survivor’s family wins lawsuit for land illegally sold to...
(JTA) — The Supreme Court of Poland upheld a 6-year-old ruling in favor of the descendants of a Holocaust survivor who had sued to reclaim from a Krakow-area church ownership of land stolen from her....
View ArticleEdelweiss Pirates: The Anti-Hitler Youth
Barthel Schink was a German teenager who led a resistance movement of Hitler Youth dropouts who fought Nazi tyranny. Born to a postal worker and a homemaker in Cologne in 1927, Barthel was one of five...
View ArticleThe True Story of The Holocaust Train Rescued From The Heart of Darkness –...
‘I cannot believe, today, that the world almost ignored those people and what was happening. How could we have all stood by and have let that happen? They do not owe us anything. We owe them, for what...
View ArticleHistorian: Polish society shunned Jewish survivors returning from death camps
In ‘Ghost Citizens,’ Polish academic Lukasz Krzyzanowski delves into postwar Radom, where Jews found new residents living in their stolen homes, and little empathy from the public. When the slim...
View ArticleThis customized van is helping UK Holocaust survivors record their stories...
(JTA) — As one of the youngest Holocaust survivors, Eva Clarke has spent years telling the story of how her mother, weighing just 68 pounds, gave birth to her inside a concentration camp just a month...
View ArticleIn Holocaust memorial day speech, Lithuanian lawmaker says Jews and...
(JTA) — In an unusual move, the U.S. ambassador to Lithuania accused a local senior lawmaker of distorting the history of the Holocaust and blaming Jews for it. Robert Gilchrist, who took up the post...
View ArticleIn first, Luxembourg offers $1.2 million in symbolic compensation to...
(JTA) — The government of Luxembourg, which for decades has avoided paying Holocaust restitution to most of its survivors for property they lost, has agreed to pay $1.2 million in symbolic...
View ArticleBenny Gantz: My Holocaust survivor mother made me a better general
(JTA) — I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say that 2020 was one of the toughest years that the world has endured in recent history. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I reflect on...
View ArticleAmazon removes 92 books promoting Holocaust denial
Amazon has removed 92 books promoting Shoah denial, sparking praise from Jewish groups ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day. The tech giant faced growing public pressure on the issue in recent years. It has...
View ArticleConcentration Camps in Scotland
A little-known network of concentration camps operated in Scotland during World War II. The Jewish prisoners were beaten and starved. Some were chained in their cells; at least one inmate was shot by a...
View ArticleDaughter of couple who hid Jews at Warsaw Zoo dies
(JTA) — The daughter of a Polish couple who rescued Jews by hiding them at Warsaw’s zoo has died. Teresa Zabinska-Zawadzki died Sunday at the age of 77, the Warsaw Zoo wrote on Facebook. The statement...
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