Holocaust
“The complicity of massive numbers of ordinary Poles in the capture and murder of Jews is not a debatable subject,” Holocaust Survivors’ Foundation USA said.
“As our city and our country confront the rising tide of antisemitism, our administration will not remain silent,” the New York City mayor said.
Shalom Lamm, of Operation Benjamin, told JNS that “those who sacrificed all ought to be remembered for eternity for who they truly were in life.”
The defendant is said to have served as a guard at a camp for Soviet and Polish prisoners of war.
The Polish Foreign Ministry criticized the Israeli Holocaust museum for not amending a tweet that noted Jews were first forced to wear yellow badges in Poland, without mentioning that the country was occupied by Germany at the time.
Jewish groups demand MSK Gent return a Nazi-looted painting, disputing unproven claims that the owner’s family was compensated.
Prosecutors say the 19-year-old suspect targeted Jews in an ISIS-inspired attack that left a Spanish tourist gravely wounded.
During the Oct. 7 attack, Ruth Haran Herzman hid in Be’eri. Her son was killed, and seven family members were abducted to Gaza.
The work, which portrays Elisabeth Lederer, was owned by the Jewish art collector Leonard Lauder for 40 years.
An attempt to ban the mass at Verdun failed after a court overturned, it citing the separation of religion and state.
“European governments must put an end to the vile trade in death and symbols of humiliation,” Rabbi Menachem Margolin told JNS.
“Antisemitic threats and all threats made against the federally protected freedoms of our citizens will not be tolerated,” stated William Keyes, a U.S. attorney.
