April 13, 2014 15:48 by Simon Plosker Disowned by his university and branded a traitor by his fellow Palestinians. This after a professor took 27 college students on a trip to the Auschwitz concentration camp as part of a project to teach empathy and tolerance. The Washington Post takes up the story: [Professor] Dajani said […]
By Walter Williams April 9, 2014 12:15 pm “Engineering Evil” is a documentary recently shown on the Military History channel. It’s a story of Nazi Germany’s murder campaign before and during World War II. According to some estimates, 16 million Jews and other people died at the hands of Nazis (http://tinyurl.com/6duny9). Though the Holocaust ranks high […]
Three young Polish partiers chose a terrible place to party this weekend – a concentration camp. According to Yediot Aharonot, three skinheads in their thirties infiltrated the Majdanek death camp near the city of Lublin in Poland. One of them took his friends to smoke for pleasure against the booths where prisoners were crowded – […]
Scores of copies of Anne Frank’s “Diary of a Young Girl” kept in public libraries across Tokyo have been vandalized, officials said Friday, sparking alarm amid a rightward shift in Japan’s politics, AFP reports. Pages in at least 250 copies of the diary or publications containing biographies on Anne Frank, Nazi persecution of Jews and related materials have been torn, the council of […]
The chief archivist of Russia’s counterintelligence service said it will continue searching for clues about the mystery of Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg, who vanished while in Soviet captivity, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Lt.-Gen. Vasily Khristoforov said that his agency, the Federal Security Service, has no reason to withhold information about the Swedish diplomat from […]
Germany’s parliament on Friday debated a law to help return Nazi-looted art to their rightful owners or their heirs, following the recent shock discovery of a stash of long-lost masterpieces, AFP reports. The draft bill brought by the southern state of Bavaria, where the art hoard was found in a Munich apartment, would remove a […]
The United Nations will host a new exhibition honoring the March of the Living. The exhibit, entitled “When You Listen to a Witness, You Become a Witness,” will launch on Tuesday, January 28, in the Visitor Centre, Dag Hammarskjold Library Lower Level. The opening event and reception will take place that evening in the Library […]
Shimon Rahamim, an elderly Israeli, discovered what is perhaps the strangest newspaper article ever – an article in a Hebrew-language newspaper that called Hitler “favorable to the Jewish people.” The article, said Rahamim, is more than a historical curiosity. “It is a warning for the future,” he said. The article appeared in the Hebrew-language Doar Hayom […]
Germany’s Bavaria state signaled Wednesday it would not seek to prevent the publication of an annotated version of Adolf Hitler’s manifesto “Mein Kampf” in an apparent about-face, according to AFP. Amid a debate over academic freedom and a back and forth over whether to pursue the project, Bavaria indicated that it would not try to stop a historical institute from bringing out […]
Taiwan will release a Chinese edition of the first known Holocaust report on Auschwitz-Birkenau written by a Polish resistance fighter who infiltrated the Nazi death camp, a Polish institute said Monday. According to AFP, the Chinese translation of the report will be available from Taiwanese publisher Acropolis starting Wednesday, Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) said on its website. In 1940, Polish […]
