Holocaust
Patrick Delany, of Foxtel, said he is “very sorry for my actions and sincerely apologize to people who have been hurt or offended, especially members of the Jewish community.”
Irmgard Furchner, 99, was given a two-year suspended sentence in 2022 for her role as a secretary to the commander of the Stutthof concentration camp.
“There was an attempt to disrupt our community by an outside hate group,” said Rob Rue, the mayor of Springfield.
The Germans scuttled the vessel in 1944 to prevent capture by the Red Army.
Florida teacher, honored by Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, wants to teach Shoah ‘continuously’
Mary Ellen Richichi told JNS that her course on Holocaust history is her school’s second-most popular elective after gym.
The city’s mayor said he doesn’t want the event disturbed by pro-Hamas protests.
Holocaust survivor and Warsaw Uprising fighter Stanislaw (Shlomo) Aronson is back in Poland for the 80th anniversary commemoration of the revolt.
Mark Schonwetter, who founded the foundation with his daughters, survived the Holocaust with his mother and sister by hiding in the Polish countryside during World War II.
“We are shocked and deeply disturbed,” said Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, senior director of policy and advocacy for Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center.
“The recovery of this important artwork—stolen from a prominent Jewish critic of Adolf Hitler—sends a message to the world that crime does not pay,” said descendant Timothy Reif.
The dig at the famous site, destroyed by the Nazis, has taken on new importance this year in the aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, said Israel Antiquities Authority Director Eli Escusido.
The 85-year-old letter, along with the original envelope, will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions, with a minimum bid listed at $20,000.
