June 20, 2014
9:16 pm

Illustrative photo of captive Nazi troops marching as American forces advance in Belgium, December 1944. (photo credit: US Signal Corps/public domain)

SS war criminal lived in Britain for 66 years

Nazi hunter claims recently deceased 89-year-old was a member of unit that massacred Poles, Jews during WWII

By JTA

June 20, 2014
5:44 am

Claims Conference representatives meet with German officials during Holocaust restitution negotiations in Israel in 2013. (photo credit: Courtesy Claims Conference)

Claims Conference weighs shutting down vs. Holocaust education

Panel appointed after $57-million fraud scandal recommends that the organization shift its long-term focus to remembrance

By Uriel Heilman

June 18, 2014
5:07 pm

A canal in Amsterdam, where nearly half of Holland's 30,000 Jews live (photo credit: Rachael Cerrotti/Flash90)

Amsterdam rethinks multi-million-euro Holocaust memorial

Plans on hold after residents complain ‘Path of Light’ monument would take over their park

By AFP

June 14, 2014
2:42 am

Pope Pius XII (photo credit: Wikipedia commons/Maximus0970/File)

Francis defends Holocaust-era pope’s record

Pontiff claims Pius XII was ‘the great defender of the Jews,’ hiding people in his residence; cites failures of Allied powers

By JTA

June 13, 2014
4:35 pm

Passersby look at the Holocaust-related and other memorabilia left by citizens protesting the monument to the 1944 German occupation, under construction behind sheeting across the street in downtown Budapest. (Photo credit: JTA/Ruth Ellen Gruber)

Boycotting state Holocaust commemorations, Hungary’s Jews forge new path

Groups refuse nearly $1 million in government grants to protest what they see as the whitewashing of country’s complicity in Shoah

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

June 12, 2014
11:08 pm

$25K donation boosts 1.5 million penny Holocaust memorial

Monument in Hernando, Mississippi, will feature a spiral path forming a fractured Star of David

By JTA

June 9, 2014
4:47 am

Adolf Hitler (photo credit: German Federal Archive/Wikimedia Commons)

Complaints about Hitler video led to firing, Jewish banker claims

Former BNP employee seeking $40 million in monetary, punitive damages for termination

By JTA

June 8, 2014
10:15 am

Portrait of Mohammed Dajani, a former Fatah founder and prominent Palestinian academic. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Palestinian lecturer who led Auschwitz trip quits after backlash

Prof. Dajani, castigated for taking students on unprecedented trip to death camp, had expected university to back him, reject his resignation

By Yifa Yaakov

June 7, 2014
11:45 pm

A Nazi flag on display (illustrative photo: CC BY BPTakoma, Flickr)

Australian Jews accuse auctioneers of profiting from Holocaust

From the web Sellers say they received no direct complaints from community ahead of Nazi memorabilia sale, according to the Daily Mail

June 6, 2014
8:18 am

Nazi liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto (photo credit: Courtesy of USHMM)

Germany to extend benefits to ghetto laborers

In ‘long-delayed’ move, Berlin will dole out $461 million to some 40,000 Holocaust survivors forced to work in ghettos

By AP

June 3, 2014
4:39 am

MLA features anti-Israel slurs in resolution debate

Language and literature association participants decry ‘Zionist attack dogs,’ ‘humongous influence’ of Jews in academia

By JTA

May 31, 2014
10:39 pm

Henry Wermuth (screen capture: YouTube/USC Shoah Foundation)

The man who would have killed Hitler

Holocaust survivor says he attempted to derail Nazi leader’s train while interned in Poland in 1942

By Times of Israel staff

May 31, 2014
6:03 am

A young Nicholas Winton with a rescued child. (photo credit: Courtesy of Menemsha Films)

US National Archives finds historic Winton letter to FDR

’60 Minutes’ report spurs archivist’s search for 1939 missive from Sir Nicholas Winton to US president Franklin Roosevelt asking for help in saving Jewish children

By Renee Ghert-Zand

May 30, 2014
7:31 pm

Roberto Jonghi Lavarini (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Fascist’s appearance on Italian TV show angers local Jews

Complaint filed against program and guest, who said 6 million Jews died in Holocaust because Nazis were ‘precise’ and ‘well organized’

By JTA

May 29, 2014
4:27 pm

Maya Angelou speaking at a rally, circa 2008 (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons, Talbot Troy, CC BY 2.0)

Six Jewish memories of Maya Angelou

Topic: Holocaust

SS war criminal lived in Britain for 66 years

Nazi hunter claims recently deceased 89-year-old was a member of unit that massacred Poles, Jews during WWII

Claims Conference weighs shutting down vs. Holocaust education

Panel appointed after $57-million fraud scandal recommends that the organization shift its long-term focus to remembrance

Amsterdam rethinks multi-million-euro Holocaust memorial

Plans on hold after residents complain ‘Path of Light’ monument would take over their park

Francis defends Holocaust-era pope’s record

Pontiff claims Pius XII was ‘the great defender of the Jews,’ hiding people in his residence; cites failures of Allied powers

Boycotting state Holocaust commemorations, Hungary’s Jews forge new path

Groups refuse nearly $1 million in government grants to protest what they see as the whitewashing of country’s complicity in Shoah

$25K donation boosts 1.5 million penny Holocaust memorial

Monument in Hernando, Mississippi, will feature a spiral path forming a fractured Star of David

Complaints about Hitler video led to firing, Jewish banker claims

Former BNP employee seeking $40 million in monetary, punitive damages for termination

Palestinian lecturer who led Auschwitz trip quits after backlash

Prof. Dajani, castigated for taking students on unprecedented trip to death camp, had expected university to back him, reject his resignation

Australian Jews accuse auctioneers of profiting from Holocaust

From the web Sellers say they received no direct complaints from community ahead of Nazi memorabilia sale, according to the Daily Mail

Germany to extend benefits to ghetto laborers

In ‘long-delayed’ move, Berlin will dole out $461 million to some 40,000 Holocaust survivors forced to work in ghettos

MLA features anti-Israel slurs in resolution debate

Language and literature association participants decry ‘Zionist attack dogs,’ ‘humongous influence’ of Jews in academia

The man who would have killed Hitler

Holocaust survivor says he attempted to derail Nazi leader’s train while interned in Poland in 1942

US National Archives finds historic Winton letter to FDR

’60 Minutes’ report spurs archivist’s search for 1939 missive from Sir Nicholas Winton to US president Franklin Roosevelt asking for help in saving Jewish children

Fascist’s appearance on Italian TV show angers local Jews

Complaint filed against program and guest, who said 6 million Jews died in Holocaust because Nazis were ‘precise’ and ‘well organized’

Six Jewish memories of Maya Angelou

From the web The Forward reviews the unforgettable interactions the acclaimed African-American poet had with US and world Jewry

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