Posts Tagged: holocaust
Holocaust Museum With Focus on Orthodox Jews To Open In Brooklyn Next Spring
According to a UJA study conducted last year, 23 percent of Brooklyn's 2.4 million residents are Jewish, including an estimated 9,000 Holocaust survivors, the largest...
Slovakia: New Charges Filed Against “Most Wanted Nazi” Csatary
New charges have been filed in Slovakia against 97-year-old Nazi war crimes suspect Laszlo Csizsik-Csatary who is currently under house arrest in nearby Hungary according to...
Israeli Group Calls on Sweden to Help Solve Case of Raoul Wallenberg
The Raoul Wallenberg Honorary Citizen Committee, based in Israel, has sent a letter to the Swedish government, asking them to issue a yellow notice -...
Respectable Memoir, Some Shrewd Manipulation by an East European Government “• or Both?
Review of We Are Here. Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust. By Ellen Cassedy. University of Nebraska Press, 273 pp. Paperback $19.95. What do you do...
“Most Wanted Nazi” Detained in Hungary
Suspected Nazi war criminal Laszlo Csizsik-Csatary was recently found in Budapest, and after calls to arrest Csatary came from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the man...
Hungary Asked to Take Action Over Nazi War Criminal Found in Budapest
Following the recent discovery in Budapest of Laszlo Csizsik-Csatary - a Nazi war criminal accused of helping murder over 15,000 Jews during the Holocaust -...
Jewish At-Risk Teens Repair Polish Cemeteries
Located in what is currently western Ukraine, south-eastern Poland, and north-eastern Romania - the provinces that were once known as Galicia and Bukovina and were...
The Real Challenge in the Middle East: Ideology
Roger Garaudy, the French self-styled philosopher who died on June 13 aged 98, was an exceptional individual. And I don't mean that as a compliment. Garaudy...
Swiss Politician Resigns After Pushing for “Kristallnacht” Against Muslims
Swiss People's Party (SVP) member Alexander Muller stepped down from office in Zurich this week after advocating for a Kristallnacht for Muslims on...
“Joe the Plumber” Takes Heat Over Holocaust Campaign Ad (VIDEO)
"Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher, a Republican congressional candidate in Ohio, has drawn criticism for suggesting that Jews' inability to access guns contributed to...
Cantorial “Ambassadors” Recognize the New Germany
Even as Germany has edged closer to being the icon of high culture it once was, echoes of the Holocaust still affect its foreign...
French Railroad Company Commits to Revealing Role in Holocaust Deportations
The French railway system, SNCF, has signed an agreement with the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem to increase research into the role...
How America First Learned of the Holocaust
Seventy years ago this month America learned, for the first time, about the systematic mass murder of Europe's Jews—but Allied officials and some...
Lebanese Author: Jews Will Be Punished With Second Holocaust
According to a report by media analysts at MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute) an opinion piece written in a Qatari daily newspaper last month...
