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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 ...
Polish leader honors WWII diplomat who tried to help Jews, died in poverty
Poland's president and descendants of Holocaust survivors held a graveside ceremony Tuesday to honor a Polish diplomat in Switzerland who helped Jews escape Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II by issuing phony Latin American passports. The ceremony took place at the Friedental cemetery in Lucerne, ...
Sonia Orbuch, who fought Nazis as a girl, dies in California at 93
Sonia Orbuch, who survived the Holocaust as a teenager in Eastern Europe by joining a resistance group that was sabotaging the Nazis, has died in Northern California, a newspaper reported. She was 93. Orbuch died Sept. 30 at her home in Corte Madera, the San ...
Holocaust survivor who became U.S. Army major general has died at 83
Sidney Shachnow, who survived the Holocaust as a child and fought in Vietnam as a U.S. Army Green Beret before becoming a major general, has died. He was 83. Shachnow's wife, Arlene, said by phone Wednesday that he passed away on Sept. 27 at a ...
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.
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 ...
