Posts Tagged: World War II
Head of Raoul Wallenberg Center: Official Declaration of Disappeared Swedish Diplomat’s Death Must Not Obscure Real Fate of Holocaust Hero
The announcement that Sweden’s tax authority has formally pronounced Raoul Wallenberg dead “should not obscure the main issue that his family has been pursuing for...
Holocaust Survivor of Nine Concentration Camps, Purveyor of Message About Nazi Atrocities, Dies at Age 91
A Holocaust survivor who spent his teenage years in nine different concentration camps before moving to the US, becoming a successful businessman and attempting to educate...
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...
New Technology Reveals Tunnel Dug With Spoons, Hands by Jewish Prisoners to Escape Nazi Death Squads
JNS.org - A team of researchers has discovered a tunnel in Lithuania that was used by Jews to escape the Nazis during the Holocaust, according to...
Swedish Nun Canonized by Catholic Church for Hiding Jews in Convent During WWII
A Swedish nun who hid Jews in her convent in Rome during World War II was canonized as a saint by Pope Francis at the...
French Far-Right Party Founder Fined for Downplaying the Holocaust
JNS.org - The founder and former leader of France’s far-right National Front party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, 87, has been fined for denying crimes against humanity over a...
Holocaust Survivor Files Lawsuit Against Hungarian National Railway for Crimes Against Humanity and Abetting Genocide
A group of lawyers representing a Hungarian Holocaust victim have sued Hungary's national railways in the Hungarian Court "for transporting and profiteering from the Hungarian Holocaust," The Algemeiner learned...
EU Parliament President ‘Angered’ That ‘Holocaust Deniers Sit Among Us;’ Says ‘Without the Jews, Europe Would Not Be Europe’
The president of the European Parliament said he was angered by the presence of Holocaust deniers among his fellow parliamentarians, Israeli news site nrg reported on Wednesday. Speaking on the occasion of the UN-designated...
Jewish Human Rights Group ‘Horrified’ By British Doctors’ Request to Revoke Israeli Membership From World Medical Association
An international Jewish human rights organization expressed horror at a request made to the World Medical Association (WMA) by a large group of UK doctors that Israel's membership...
Historic First: US Soldier Receives ‘Righteous Among Nations’ Honor From Yad Vashem
JNS.org - Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum on Tuesday announced the first-ever “Righteous Among the Nations” honor for a US soldier. The late Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds...
Swastika, Antisemitic Epithets Scrawled on Board in Maryland U Dorm
A swastika and antisemitic epithets were scrawled on a dry-erase board in a dorm at the University of Maryland over the weekend, the university paper the Diamonback reported on Monday. It was...
Swastika Mowed Into Lawn Outside UK Primary School
Vandals mowed a swastika into the lawn outside a primary school in Kingston upon Hull in the eastern U.K., the Jewish Chronicle reported on Wednesday. Hull suffered massively from bombing raids...
New Zealand Collectibles Shop Owner Refuses to Take Down Nazi Swastika Flag
A collectibles retailer in Rotorua, New Zealand has refused to take down a Nazi swastika flag from his shop because of what he said was popular demand for...
When Invoking WWII is Appropriate
There is good reason to refrain from bandying about the word "Holocaust" with abandon. The defining atrocity of the 20th century has to be given...
