February 21, 2014
6:17 am

Henry Cavill portrays Superman in 'Man of Steel.' (photo credit: AP/Warner Bros. Pictures, Clay Enos, File)

Hezbollah: Jews invented Hollywood to ‘take over the world’

Jews use skills and superheroes to hijack global culture through mass media, TV report claims, lamenting that ‘we don’t know how to do it’

By Yifa Yaakov

February 20, 2014
7:06 pm

Main entrance to Auschwitz (photo credit: CC BY-SA Tulio Bertorini)

Germany arrests 3 Auschwitz guard suspects

Police raid homes of 9 men and detain 3, aged 88, 92 and 94, who are suspected of serving in the SS during WWII

By David Rising

February 20, 2014
8:23 am

The Great Synagogue on Dohany Street in Budapest, Hungary (photo credit: CC-BY-SA, Yelkrokoyade, Wikimedia Coomons)

Hungary backpedals on disputed Holocaust monument

Budapest delays inauguration of Nazi victims memorial, which Jewish groups say glosses over country’s role in genocide

By AFP

February 18, 2014
7:20 pm

A Torah scroll (illustrative photo: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

103 Hungarian Torah scrolls taken during WWII found

Jewish leaders find holy texts in a Russian library; negotiations underway to restore and possibly display them

By AP

February 18, 2014
3:34 pm

Screen shot of the new interactive website charting the deportation of Jews from France. (screenshot http://tetrade.huma-num.fr/Tetrademap_Enfant_France/)

Interactive map charts Shoah deportations of French youth

Some 11,400 children were among the 76,000 Jews deported from France and sent to Nazi death camps

By JTA

February 18, 2014
9:35 am

Monika Czerniec, art restoration expert, paints elaborate wall paintings that tell the story of Polandâs Jewish community at the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Feb. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s Jewish museum gets interior decoration

Museum aims to reconstruct the climate of Jewish towns and synagogues through historical objects and multimedia displays

By AP

February 17, 2014
2:55 am

The imposing Hollandsche Schouwburg, or Dutch Theater, served as a gathering point during the Nazi roundup of Amsterdam's Jews. (Matt Lebovic)

Dutch diplomat to be honored Monday for saving Jews

Joop Kolkman, who died in Nazi camp in 1944, will be recognized as Righteous Among the Nations

By JTA

February 17, 2014
2:00 am

Thousands of people attend a protest called Mass Demonstration Against Nazism, in front of the Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Dec. 2 (photo credit: AP/MTI, Laszlo Beliczay)

Israeli official: Hungary not ready to face Holocaust role

Budapest’s ambassador tells media that foreign ministry said country was unwilling to confront past

By JTA

February 15, 2014
3:26 am

Jobbik party supporters burning an EU flag at a rally in Budapest in 2012. (photo credit: screen capture/YouTube video uploaded by Euronews)

Hungarian envoy summoned over rising anti-Semitism

Extremist Jobbik party holds rally in former synagogue, as Jerusalem expresses ‘deep concern’ to Budapest’s ambassador

By Yifa Yaakov and AP

February 12, 2014
5:52 am

A detail from the painting 'Sitzende Frau' ('Sitting Woman'), by Henri Matisse, which was among the more than 1,400 art works seized by German authorities in an apartment in Munich, in February 2012. (photo credit: AP/Staatsanwaltschaft Augsburg)

Germany to start debating law on Nazi-looted art

If passed, bill would eliminate the statute of limitations applied to stolen property; some believe the measure is ‘for show’

By AFP

February 11, 2014
2:16 am

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (photo credit: screen capture/WJC)

Jewish groups back Hungary Holocaust commemoration boycott

International organizations urge Budapest to respond to concerns that memorials minimize country’s role in genocide

By JTA

February 10, 2014
12:41 am

Hungary’s Jews to boycott state Holocaust ceremonies

Main umbrella group will stay away from commemorations unless government addresses community concerns; PM promises response

By JTA

February 8, 2014
9:24 am

Labour MP Yasmin Qureshi during a Westminster Hall debate in London (photo credit: screen capture/YouTube)

Labour MP apologizes for Holocaust remark

From the web Yasmin Qureshi accused of drawing ‘offensive comparisons’ between Holocaust and treatment of Palestinians in Gaza, The Guardian reports

February 7, 2014
7:49 pm

View of the house in Amsterdam where Anne Frank and her family hid during the Holocaust. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Anne Frank’s marbles prove resonance of a small museum

Despite its narrow scope and limited collection, the Holocaust diarist’s hiding location is one of Holland’s biggest attractions

By Cnaan Liphshiz

February 6, 2014
12:09 pm

What Auschwitz can teach the world

Genocide results not only from state-sanctioned hatred, but from indifference and inaction

By Irwin Cotler

Topic: Holocaust

Hezbollah: Jews invented Hollywood to ‘take over the world’

Jews use skills and superheroes to hijack global culture through mass media, TV report claims, lamenting that ‘we don’t know how to do it’

Germany arrests 3 Auschwitz guard suspects

Police raid homes of 9 men and detain 3, aged 88, 92 and 94, who are suspected of serving in the SS during WWII

Hungary backpedals on disputed Holocaust monument

Budapest delays inauguration of Nazi victims memorial, which Jewish groups say glosses over country’s role in genocide

103 Hungarian Torah scrolls taken during WWII found

Jewish leaders find holy texts in a Russian library; negotiations underway to restore and possibly display them

Interactive map charts Shoah deportations of French youth

Some 11,400 children were among the 76,000 Jews deported from France and sent to Nazi death camps

Poland’s Jewish museum gets interior decoration

Museum aims to reconstruct the climate of Jewish towns and synagogues through historical objects and multimedia displays

Dutch diplomat to be honored Monday for saving Jews

Joop Kolkman, who died in Nazi camp in 1944, will be recognized as Righteous Among the Nations

Israeli official: Hungary not ready to face Holocaust role

Budapest’s ambassador tells media that foreign ministry said country was unwilling to confront past

Hungarian envoy summoned over rising anti-Semitism

Extremist Jobbik party holds rally in former synagogue, as Jerusalem expresses ‘deep concern’ to Budapest’s ambassador

Germany to start debating law on Nazi-looted art

If passed, bill would eliminate the statute of limitations applied to stolen property; some believe the measure is ‘for show’

Jewish groups back Hungary Holocaust commemoration boycott

International organizations urge Budapest to respond to concerns that memorials minimize country’s role in genocide

Hungary’s Jews to boycott state Holocaust ceremonies

Main umbrella group will stay away from commemorations unless government addresses community concerns; PM promises response

Labour MP apologizes for Holocaust remark

From the web Yasmin Qureshi accused of drawing ‘offensive comparisons’ between Holocaust and treatment of Palestinians in Gaza, The Guardian reports

Anne Frank’s marbles prove resonance of a small museum

Despite its narrow scope and limited collection, the Holocaust diarist’s hiding location is one of Holland’s biggest attractions

What Auschwitz can teach the world

Genocide results not only from state-sanctioned hatred, but from indifference and inaction

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