Two Turkish history students avoided jail Monday after giving the Nazi salute at the former Auschwitz death camp, Polish police said. The 22-year-old man and woman were detained on Sunday while taking pictures of each other performing the salute at the gates of the former Nazi German death camp in the southern Polish city of […]
Truth meets fiction as Oscar winner George Clooney will show his Nazi-era art thriller “The Monuments Men” at the Berlin film festival in February. The film comes amid the controversy following last year’s discovery of over 1,400 works of art stolen by the Nazis The artworks were found in the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of a powerful Nazi-era […]
German President Joachim Gauck on Friday visited a former workshop whose owner fought to save his Jewish staff from deportation, as Germany began marking the 75th anniversary of the Nazi Kristallnacht anti-Jewish pogrom. AFP reported that Gauck joined a Jewish former employee to visit the premises, now a museum in central Berlin, where Otto Weidt […]
August 6, 2013 16:47 by Pesach Benson Hassan Rohani proves his “moderation” by appointing as foreign minister the Holocaust denying Mohammad Javad Zarif. Zarif has previously served as Iran’s ambassador to the UN. David Feith (Wall St. Journal via Google News) writes: “Iran Nominee Seen As Olive Branch to United States,” blares a headline from […]
American writer Alice Walker, who has long made clear her antipathy toward the state of Israel, “has taken her extreme and hostile views to a shocking new level” in her latest book of meditations on life and her personal activism, according to a review of the book by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Walker’s “The Cushion in […]
Germany has given its support to a plan by the European Union to label products manufactured in Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, Army Radio reported Sunday. The report cited an official government document in which the German government has stated its stance on the issue for the first time. The document was issued in […]
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has denounced as “stunningly offensive” a paper published by the Church of Scotland that negates the core beliefs of Judaism regarding G-d’s promises about the Land of Israel and the Jewish people. “The very premise of the paper reflects a classic rejection of Judaism in the broadest sense,” said the ADL. The […]
Sirens rang out and church bells tolled on Friday as Poland marked the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising that saw young Jews rise up against Nazi German forces. Hundreds of people including, Holocaust survivors gathered, at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, where Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski called the revolt a “fight for […]
The blueprints for Auschwitz went on display yesterday after being discovered in November 2008. The location of their discovery is being kept secret. They were ‘discovered in a apartment behind a wall when a renovation/remodel was taking place’. No one will say whose apartment. Germany does not hide information like this after WWII……why are they hiding it […]
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has just released the initial findings of its twelfth annual status report on the worldwide investigation and prosecution of Nazi war criminals. The report covers the period from April 1, 2012 thru March 31, 2013 and awards grades ranging from A (highest) to F, to evaluate the efforts and results achieved […]
