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Report finds Finnish volunteers in Waffen-SS likely mass-murdered Jews in WWII
An Israeli Holocaust historian praised authorities in Finland on Sunday for publishing a report that concluded Finnish volunteers serving with Nazi Germany's Waffen-SS "very likely" took part in World War II atrocities, including the mass murder of Jews. Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center ...
Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu comes under fire for wooing allies who distort the Holocaust
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's warm welcome to Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis marks his latest embrace of an Eastern European leader who has offered strong political support while promoting a distorted image of the Holocaust. Lithuania is among a slew of former communist nations swept ...
Simon Wallfisch grew up in London as the grandson of an Auschwitz survivor, who had sworn to never return to the country that murdered her parents and 6 million other Jews. But more than 70 years after the Holocaust, Brexit has prompted Wallfisch and thousands ...
Thai offshoot of popular Japanese girl group AKB48 condemned for Nazi swastika T-shirt
Thailand's most popular all-girl band, BNK48, which is an offshoot of Japanese girl group AKB48, has apologized after one of its members was seen wearing a shirt with a Nazi flag featuring a swastika during a TV appearance that drew "shock and dismay" from ...
Far-right protest staged for first time during Auschwitz camp liberation commemoration
Dozens of Polish far-right nationalists gathered at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on Sunday to protest at the same time as officials and survivors marked the 74th anniversary of the camp's liberation in an annual ceremony. The two parties gathered in different parts of ...
The world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday amid a revival of hate-inspired violence and signs that younger generations know less and less about the genocide of Jews, Roma and others during World War II. In Poland, which was under Nazi German occupation during ...
Library and Archives Canada announced Wednesday it had acquired a rare 1944 book that once belonged to Adolf Hitler. Written in German, "Statistics, Media, and Organizations of Jewry in the United States and Canada" is a 137-page report produced in 1944 by Heinz Kloss, a ...
Anti-immigrant AfD lawmakers walk out on Holocaust survivor's speech in Bavaria legislature
Lawmakers from the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) walked out of the Bavarian parliament on Wednesday after a Jewish community leader accused the party during a speech to commemorate the Holocaust of playing down Nazi crimes. "A party is represented here today that disparages those ...
Reinvented legacy: Nazi-seized paintings fund foundation for Jews
When Hilde Schramm inherited several paintings collected by her father, Hitler's chief architect and Armaments Minister Albert Speer, she was only sure of one thing: she didn't want them. Despite determining they probably hadn't been looted from Jews during World War II, she wanted their ...
Six Holocaust victims buried after remains are found in U.K. museum storage
The remains of six unidentified Holocaust victims were buried in a solemn ceremony at a Jewish cemetery near London on Sunday after spending years in storage at a British museum. The Imperial War Museum found the ashes and bone fragments during a stock-taking last year. ...
German spy agency to launch anti-extremism probe into far-right opposition party AfD
Germany's domestic spy agency will investigate Alternative for Germany (AfD) to see whether the anti-immigrant party's policies breach constitutional safeguards against extremism, its chief said on Tuesday. The BfV has classified Germany's main opposition party as a "case to investigate," domestic intelligence chief Thomas Haldenwang ...
EU alarmed at study showing 'incurable' anti-Semitism worsening, as many Jews mull emigration
The EU voiced alarm Monday as a survey showed 9 of 10 European Jews believe anti-Semitism has worsened in the last five years, calling it a "canary in the coal mine." The European Union's Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) said 85 percent of Jews surveyed ...
