Posts Tagged: holocaust
Empty, Haunting Anne Frank House Museum Revamped for New Generation
The Anne Frank House Museum, built around the secret apartment where the Jewish teenager and her family hid from the Nazis, has reopened after being...
Wheelchair-Bound 94-Year-Old German on Trial for Nazi Crimes
A 94-year-old German appeared in court in a wheelchair on Tuesday accused of assisting in the murder of hundreds of people at a Nazi concentration...
Eighty Years After Kristallnacht, the Murder of Jews Continues
Over the course of 48 hours on November 9-10, 1938 -- now known as Kristallnacht -- 96 Jews were killed, 1,300 synagogues and 7,500 businesses...
Survivor Recalls 1941 Nazi Massacre of Jews in Odessa
An interview with a survivor of the 1941 massacre of Jews in Odessa was published by the German media outlet Deutsche Welle earlier this week. Mihail...
Legendary French Singer Charles Aznavour, Whose Family Rescued Jews During the Holocaust, Dies at 94
Legendary French singer Charles Aznavour, whose family helped rescue Jews during the Holocaust, died on Sunday at the age of 94. Aznavour, commonly referred to as...
George Marshall Foresaw Holocaust Deniers After Liberating the First Camp
Long before “fake news” became a popular term, the fakiest of news, as Stephen Colbert might say, was the denial of the Holocaust. Despite its absurdity, Holocaust denial...
Blood-Stained Tallit Fragment Found at Site of 1940 Lodz Ghetto Pogrom
A fragment of a tallit has been discovered at the site of a former synagogue in the Lodz ghetto in Poland, stained with blood from...
New Eichmann Film Puts the Lie to Hannah Arendt’s ‘Banality of Evil’
One of the most notorious lines -- and lies -- that grew out of the trial of Adolph Eichmann for his important role in the...
Why Jews Find Themselves in the Eye of the Storm
JNS.org - Antisemitism is now a major issue in the West. In Britain, there are continuing convulsions over rampant antisemitism in the Labour Party. In America, there...
US Deports Accused Former Nazi Guard to Germany
A 95-year-old New York City man believed to be a former guard at a labor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland arrived in Germany after being arrested and...
Explosive Device Hurled at Group of Israeli Students in Poland, No One Hurt
An explosive device was thrown at a group of Israeli high school students on Wednesday while they were visiting a Holocaust-era site in the Polish...
Natalie Portman and the Holocaust
Lyons, France -- This past Friday, my family and I traveled to the small French town of Izieu. Here, on April 6, 1944, the Gestapo -- under...
Germans Rally in Jewish Skullcaps to Protest Antisemitic Attack
Hundreds of Germans wearing skullcaps rallied in the western city of Bonn on Thursday in support of a Jewish professor who was first the victim of an...
Honoring Elie Wiesel’s Legacy, House of Representatives Passes Genocide Prevention Act
The US House of Representatives passed on Tuesday the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018. The legislation, according to the House Foreign Affairs...
