Lithuanian lawmaker who blamed Jews for Holocaust quits parliament’s memorial...
(JTA) — A Lithuanian lawmaker who had suggested that Jews share the blame for the Holocaust resigned as chair of the parliament’s historical memory commission. Valdas Rakutis faced criticism over his...
View ArticleGraffiti equating Jewish genocide with Uighur persecution painted on Paris...
(JTA) — Unidentified individuals spray painted “Uighurs 2021 = Jews 1941” on a major Holocaust memorial monument in Paris. The graffiti was discovered on Wednesday on plaques bearing the names of...
View ArticleFuture of Holocaust research in Poland hinges on libel case
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two Polish historians are facing a libel trial for a scholarly examination of Polish behavior during World War II, a case whose outcome is expected to determine the fate of...
View ArticleItaly granted her a pension for Holocaust survivors. Then it asked for the...
(JTA) — In 2012, Messauda Fadlun received a letter from the Italian government asking her to return all the money she had been receiving as part of a restitution program for those racially persecuted...
View ArticleSupreme Court rejects appeal by Holocaust heirs seeking restitution in the US
(JTA) — The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously rejected an appeal by Holocaust survivors and their heirs who wanted to pursue restitution claims in the United States after failing in the countries...
View ArticleHow the Jews of the Caucasus Used an Epidemic to Trick the Nazis
During the Nazi occupation, Muslims aided efforts to hide the origins of the local Jews, preventing the extinction of a community. In July of 1942, the German Wehrmacht began occupying territories in...
View ArticleRep. Elissa Slotkin wants to mandate Holocaust education in fight against...
(JTA) — Rep. Elissa Slotkin, the Michigan Democrat who now chairs an influential anti-terrorism subcommittee, wants to mandate Holocaust education as a means of preventing domestic terrorism, citing...
View ArticleFormer secretary at Nazi death camp, 95, to stand trial for accessory to murder
(JTA) — Prosecutors in Germany have indicted a 95-year-old woman who served as a secretary to a Nazi death camp’s commander during the Holocaust. The woman, identified under German privacy laws only as...
View ArticlePolish court rules that historians must apologize for part of Holocaust...
(JTA) — In the verdict of a lawsuit seen by some as significant for the future of Holocaust research and freedom of expression in Poland, a Warsaw court ordered two historians to publicly apologize for...
View ArticleHer Holocaust survival story was like something out of a movie — maybe too...
Misha Defonseca had a secret. As she stood before the synagogue at Temple Beth Torah in Holliston, Massachusetts, she harbored a tale so remarkable that it would eventually catapult her to...
View ArticleOld Irving Park neighbors push to rename Kolmar Park to honor German-Jewish...
Block Club Chicago is a nonprofit newsroom focused on Chicago’s neighborhoods. Subscribe to support their on-the-ground reporting here. Neighbors are pushing for a Northwest Side park to be renamed...
View ArticleAnti-Semitic flyer in German tram blames Jews for the COVID pandemic
BERLIN (JTA) — Anti-Semitic flyers were found Wednesday on a tram in Cologne, Germany, blaming Jews for the ongoing pandemic. The black-and-white flyer reads: “Do we really have a Corona problem? Or do...
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Claims Conference Condemns Legal Proceedings Against Polish Scholars
February 12, 2021 30 Sh’vat, 5781 View this email in your browser PRESIDENT’S REPORT A memorial stone in the forest outside of Malinowo, Poland, where a group of Jews were hiding before they...
View ArticleSon of France’s best-known Holocaust survivor equates lamb at slaughterhouse...
(JTA) — Arno Klarsfeld, the son of the well-known French Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, said on television that a lamb at a slaughterhouse is the same as a Jew arriving at the gas...
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Michael Berenbaum “Making Sense of This Moment in Time”
In the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants’ first virtual event, Michael Berenbaum speaks on current events to World Federation members on January 17, 2021. This...
View ArticleUS deports 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard back to Germany
(JTA) – A year after an immigration judge ordered him deported to Germany because of his work as a Nazi guard, Friedrich Karl Berger is back in his native country. Berger, 95, served at a subcamp of...
View ArticleMoved by her story, Pope Francis visits Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck at...
(JTA) — Pope Francis was so moved by reading the testimony of a local Holocaust survivor that he paid the nearly 90-year-old writer a house call this weekend. The pope visited Edith Bruck, who was born...
View ArticlePolish historian resigns state position over 2007 photos of him performing...
(JTA) — A senior state historian in Poland resigned following the publication of photos from 2007 in which he appears to be giving a Nazi salute. Tomasz Greniuch had served as acting director of the...
View ArticleFormer intelligence officer convicted in first use of Romania’s law against...
BUCHAREST, Romania (JTA) — A former Romanian intelligence officer has been sentenced to 13 months in prison for Holocaust denial in the first-ever conviction under the country’s 2002 law. Vasile...
View ArticleIn Holland, a Torah scroll returns to Jewish hands 80 years after it was...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A Torah scroll that disappeared from a Dutch synagogue following the Nazi invasion into the Netherlands has been rediscovered 80 years later and returned to the Jewish community. The...
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