Holocaust
“We’re going to do everything we can to distance ourselves from this neo-Nazi who is running as a Republican,” said Illinois GOP chairman Tim Schneider.
Canada’s government has been trying to deport Helmut Oberlander, 95, also an infantryman in the German army, for the last 25 years.
Eva Szekely broke six world records, won 44 national titles, got a gold in the 200-meter breaststroke at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952 and earned a silver in the same race at the Melbourne Olympics in 1956.
The list was discovered in an old storage room in the former Nazi headquarters in Buenos Aires; Simon Wiesenthal Center requests access to the Credit Suisse archives.
The theme of the Badajos display was reportedly selected to mark the 75th year of the liberation of Nazi death and concentration camps.
More than 200 researchers have applied for permission to study the millions of letters and documents of the pontiff’s papacy, which are held in the Vatican Apostolic Archives.
Meer Axelrod was banned in the Soviet Union from artistic work, yet for nearly half a century, he continued to paint about Jewish life and the tragic fate of Jews who died in pogroms.
Ukrainian-born American director Vadim Perelman said that his Jewish heritage drew him to the project, along with his goal of showing that the Holocaust transcends any one political or historical moment.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial said that the show presents a “dangerous” fictional version of the Holocaust, specifically criticizing a scene in the opening credits where a chess game features humans as pieces killed after each is taken by the opponent.
Questions of who should get taught, what students know and how they are learning have come to the forefront as the rise in anti-Semitism continues in North America and Europe.
The Berlinale features other movies with Jewish themes, including “Minyan,” “Speer Goes to Hollywood” and “Listening In.”
The country’s Supreme Administrative Court prohibited the march, ruling that far-right demonstrators could only lay wreaths at the home of Bulgarian Gen. Hristo Lukov.
