Holocaust
William Happer is a physics professor emeritus at Princeton University.
During the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto orphanage by the Nazis, Rabbi David Alter Kurzmann was offered to abandon the children and live or join them in their deaths. He chose the latter.
In a Jewish ceremony led by a Chabad rabbi, the remains were inserted into several coffins and then buried.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven announces a government inquiry to look into “a ban on racist organizations and the criminalization of participation in such organizations.”
“It is so important that the original documents can speak to coming generations,” archive director Floriane Azoulay.
In an email to staff, executive director of Al Jazeera’s digital division Yaser Bishr said that employees would undergo a mandatory sensitivity and bias training program.
The episode exemplified the latest in the strained relationship between Warsaw and Jerusalem.
Anti-Semitism on Al Jazeera network: “Israel is the biggest winner from Holocaust; it uses the same justification to annihilate the Palestinians.”
“Please know that we emphatically renounce such hateful symbols and do not support or condone any viewpoint that is hurtful, harmful or disparaging,” said university chancellor Mark Mone.
The Tennessee school announced that its history project will no longer consist of students demonstrating a Hitler or a Nazi salute, and instead “find alternative means of covering the fifth-grade history standard.”
“The Harvard Lampoon is garbage,” tweeted Catherine Zhang, a senior at the university.
“I would like to express my apologies,” stated Arik Lederman, arrested in Israel for spitting at the ambassador. “My family experienced the Holocaust, and my appeal to the embassy was on the matter of restitution of property.”
