Holocaust
Holocaust Educational Trust said the memorial is “wholly appropriate” at a time of rising anti-Semitism across Europe • Westminster Council’s rejection of the proposed memorial would be “a calamitous decision that would bring deep international shame on them.”
Andrew Anglin does not live in the United States, but attorney David Dinielli of the Southern Poverty Law Center, said he “will go to the ends of the earth to collect the judgment ... whether it’s cash, assets or intellectual property.”
Bruno Dey is charged as an accessory to murders committed at the Stutthof concentration camp from August 1944 to April 1945.
Holocaust survivor Shoshana Ovitz asked her children for a special gift in honor of her 104th birthday: the gathering of her offspring at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
“We hope this success story will encourage others to keep researching and pushing auction houses and governments to return the thousands of other Nazi stolen items on the market to their rightful owners,” said U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell.
Poland is the only affected nation that doesn’t have legislation dealing with confiscated restitution. In March 2018, 59 senators called on Poland to pass and enact such a law.
Survivors are to receive $16,700 from Nederlandse Spoorwegen, while surviving spouses are to receive $8,400, the company announces.
The bill would incorporate several provisions into the Older Americans Act to ensure that Holocaust survivors have coordinated, trauma-informed care and services tailored to their needs.
The U.S. president will partake in ceremonies in Warsaw; it will be his second visit to Poland since July 2017.
“As a nation, we cannot allow a return to the hateful actions that led to the Holocaust,” said co-sponsor Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.).
In a Facebook post discussing how he spent his 40th birthday, he wrote, “I spent a beautiful day with my family, music, food in the home of my SS friend, then my birthday cake arrived, a gift from my SS friend.”
“We regret anyone was offended; it was certainly not our intention,” said Debra DeShong, senior vice president of corporate communications for MGM Resorts International.
