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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 ...
Aging Holocaust survivors gather for global Hanukkah ceremonies
Hundreds of Holocaust survivors around the world marked the third night of Hanukkah on Tuesday, with menorah-lighting ceremonies paying tribute to them and the 6 million other Jews who were killed by the Nazis. Initiated last year by the New York-based organization that handles claims ...
1922 Einstein letter fearing German anti-Semitism fetches $32,000 at Israeli auction
A 1922 letter in which Albert Einstein confided his fears of the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany, more than a decade before the Nazis took power, sold at an Israeli auction on Tuesday for $32,000. "Here are brewing economically and politically dark times, so I'm ...
Canada apologizes for turning away ship carrying Jews fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized in Parliament on Wednesday for Canada's refusal to admit Jewish asylum seekers fleeing Nazi Germany just months before the outbreak of World War II. On May 15, 1939, the ocean liner MS St. Louis departed Germany and crossed the Atlantic ...
English Premier League giants Chelsea are sending fans banned for anti-Semitism on diversity training courses that could include visits to former Nazi concentration camps, the club has said. The initiative, aimed at fans guilty of non-criminal racist acts, is part of owner Roman Abramovich's ongoing ...
Pope pays tribute to hundreds of thousands of victims of Nazis, Soviets in Lithuania
Pope Francis paid tribute on Sunday to Jews killed by the Nazis and victims of murder and deportation by the Soviet KGB, in twin visits to memorials marking the darkest periods of Lithuania's history. On the 75th anniversary of the wartime liquidation of the Vilnius ...
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.
