Topic: SS

August 23, 2013
10:51 pm

World Jewish Congress head Ronald Lauder. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Call for Ukrainian priests to stop glorifying Nazis

World Jewish Congress asks country’s Orthodox Church to halt tributes to Hitler’s army and its local collaborators

By JTA

June 24, 2013
4:45 am

In this May 22, 1990 photo, Michael Karkoc, photographed in Lauderdale, Minn. prior to a visit to Minnesota from Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in early June of 1990. (photo credit: AP/The St. Paul Pioneer Press, Chris Polydoroff)

Survivors recall 1944 village raid by Nazi unit led by Michael Karkoc

Senior figure in Ukrainian Self Defense Legion found to be living in the US since 1949, led unit that killed 44 Polish villagers

By Monica Scislowska

May 6, 2013
10:57 pm

The Auschwitz concentration camp (photo credit: Shutterstock)

Alleged Auschwitz death camp guard arrested

German man, deported from US for lying about Nazi past, held over ‘compelling evidence’ he was involved in war crimes

By David Rising

December 27, 2012
1:41 am

Anton Geiser, who has lived in the US for more than 50 years, didn't deny serving as a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. (Photo credit: CC BY/ hsivonen via Flickr.com)

Former Nazi guard dies amid deportation battle

Anton Geiser served in SS as concentration camp guard before moving to US

December 26, 2012
1:52 pm

The main Holocaust memorial in Berlin features an above-ground, abstract monument resembling tombstones. (Plano Light/Creative Commons via JTA)

Come for the Holocaust museums, stay for the dance clubs and art

With its tragic history and growing Jewish population, Berlin offers a compelling, sometimes jarring mix of tourist activities

By Toby Axelrod