Posts Tagged: Jews Holocaust
Swastikas, Slurs Daubed on Polish Embassy in Tel Aviv Amid Ongoing Holocaust Bill Row
Swastikas and profanities were daubed on the entrance to Poland's embassy in Israel on Sunday after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Jews, as well...
New Film ‘1945’ Explores Post-Holocaust Hungary and Local Collaboration Against the Jews
A new Hungarian film depicting the post-WWII attitude toward Jews in the country premiered last week in New York. The movie, "1945," is set one year after the...
Filmmaker Faces Harsh Criticism for Claiming Chasidic Jews Were Killed in Holocaust Because They ‘Refused to Blend In’
Filmmaker Heidi Ewing faced a storm of criticism on Sunday for asserting that Chasidic Jews were targeted by the Nazis during the Holocaust partially because they "refused...
Israel Comes to a Standstill as Blaring Siren Marks Holocaust Remembrance Day
Israel commemorated the six million Jews who were murdered by Nazis in the Holocaust on Monday with a two minute siren that brought the country...
Israel Slams Far-Right Leader Marine Le Pen for Denying French Responsibility in Holocaust Roundup
JNS.org - The Israeli government has condemned French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen for comments absolving France of responsibility for the roundup of thousands of Jews...
New York Education Chief Reverses Stance on Controversial Holocaust Assignment
JNS.org- New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia reversed her stance endorsing a controversial assignment from earlier this year that had asked students to argue both...
Trump’s Refugee Ban Echoes Past US Wartime Paranoia and Outright Bigotry
JNS.org -- There are many axioms reminding us that if we fail to learn from the tragedies of the past, we are doomed to relive them in...
Stalin Ordered ‘Liquidation’ of Raoul Wallenberg, Diary of KGB Chief Reveals
The 1945 disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg — a Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi gas chambers — ranks among the most...
Tisha B’Av in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942
Before the Germans captured the city of Warsaw in the 1939 Blitzkrieg, there were 360,000 Jews in the Polish capital. Its Jews were forced into...
Polish Education Minister Denies Pogroms Against Jews
JNS.org - Polish Education Minister Anna Zalewska has come under fire for remarks appearing to deny Polish responsibility for two massacres of Jews, one during the...
Israeli Flag Burned at Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial in Kiev
JNS.org - The mayor of Kiev, Ukraine is asking authorities to identify a group of people who were filmed burning an Israeli flag at the Babi...
Nearly Discarded Schindler Artifact Now on Display at Jewish Holocaust Center in Australia
The model for a signet ring given to Holocaust rescuer Oskar Schindler by Jewish workers he saved is now on display at the Jewish Holocaust Center in Melbourne,...
Holocaust Historian Probed for Claim That Poles Killed More Jews Than the Nazis
JNS.org - Polish-American Holocaust historian Jan Tomasz Gross is being investigated by a Polish state prosecutor for potentially publicly insulting Poland with a statement he made...
Holocaust Survivor Tells UN General Assembly the World ‘Did Not Learn Enough From the Holocaust’
A Holocaust survivor who addressed the UN General Assembly last week bemoaned the fact that genocide is still being committed in the world today, The Algemeiner...
