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March honors Warsaw's Jews and escapee activist who warned of genocide
Israel's ambassador to Poland joined hundreds of Warsaw residents Sunday in recalling the first mass deportations of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto and in honoring a Jewish activist who took his own life while despairing over the world's indifference to the Holocaust. The March of ...
Poland on Wednesday amended a controversial Holocaust law that had sparked outrage in Israel by imposing jail terms on anyone claiming the Polish government was responsible for Nazi German war crimes. The amendment removes fines or criminal penalties of up to three years in prison ...
Britain's Prince William, in historic Jerusalem visit, honors Holocaust victims, meets Netanyahu
Britain's Prince William, visiting Israel, said on Tuesday his visit to Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center in Jerusalem had been a "profoundly moving experience." William is making a first official visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories by a member of the British royal ...
German Nazi hunters in urgent race against time to track down last living war criminals
Tucked away in the picturesque German city of Ludwigsburg, a tiny team of investigators tracks the last surviving Nazi war criminals across the globe and through the better part of a century, in an urgent race against time. "We put together the smallest pieces of ...
'An ordinary girl': Hidden pages in Anne Frank's diary reveal corny jokes and sex ed
Anne Frank once taped over two pages in her diary with brown sticky paper, leaving a small puzzle as to what material the Jewish teenager, who had no idea of how famous her diary would later become, wanted to exclude. Now Dutch researchers have revealed ...
Palestinian president widely slammed for alleged anti-Semitic remarks on Jewish banking role
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas drew widespread condemnation Wednesday, including from the European Union and the United States, over alleged anti-Semitic comments suggesting the "social function" of Jews in banking had led to past massacres. The 82-year-old Abbas made the comments during a free-wheeling speech that ...
A showcase of humanity's vilest and noblest manifestations
Calling the Holocaust unfathomable is a moral flinch from facts that demand scholarship.
A Polish campaign group is suing an Argentinian newspaper it says breached a new law that makes it a criminal offense to suggest Poland was complicit in the Holocaust. In what appeared to be the first legal action under the so-called Holocaust law, just hours ...
Seventy-three years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau — the infamous Nazi death camp that has come to symbolize the Holocaust — Poles are still struggling to understand their own role in Germany's wartime genocide of European Jews on Polish soil. A bill passed this week ...
No institutionalized participation by Poland in the Holocaust: president
Poland's president said Monday that there was no institutionalized participation by Poland or its people in the Holocaust, but acknowledges that individual Poles took "wicked" actions against Jewish neighbors. President Andrzej Duda said that he would never allow Poland and Poles in general to be ...
German railway drops plan to name new train after Anne Frank amid outrage
Plans by Germany's national rail provider to name a train after Jewish diarist Anne Frank came under fire Monday, with a foundation saying it "caused new pain" to those who experienced deportations. "The (train's) naming is controversial," the Anne Frank Foundation said of the plans ...
Interactive holograms of Holocaust survivors debut at Illinois museum
Seated onstage at a museum near Chicago, Adina Sella talks about her life as a Holocaust survivor. A group of young kids is entranced — all the more so because Sella is not actually there. Her likeness is being beamed in the form of an interactive ...
