Holocaust

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Ben Cohen30.11.2018
Silent majority needs encouragement in fight against anti-Semitism
Seven decades after the Holocaust and the creation of the State of Israel, the anti-Semitism that has been shaped since the turn of this century—nearly all of it recycled from previous manifestations of Jew-hatred—is at a new height of confidence.
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Jonathan S. Tobin28.11.2018
The border analogy problem
Why comparing Central American asylum-seekers to the Holocaust won’t help them or fix America’s broken immigration system.
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Vandals in Belgium damage Holocaust memorial
Yossi LempkowiczEuropean Jewish Press20.11.2018
Vandals damage a Holocaust memorial in the Belgian city of Ghent on the eve of a Kristallnacht commemoration.  
The so-called Michaël Lustig monument, in the shape of a dreidel, is located at the confluence of a major canal.
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Ben Cohen19.11.2018
Putin plays with the Holocaust
Russia does not make movies for the sake of art, but for the sake of politics.
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Book Review
‘Witness’: A glimpse of Elie Wiesel through the eyes of his protégé
Deborah Fineblum14.11.2018
A new book by Wiesel’s longtime assistant (and good friend) Ariel Burger was born of a 25-year bond between student and teacher.
Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel speaks at an awards ceremony held at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Wiesel received the Jerusalem guardian award in recognition of his unwavering defense of Jerusalem as the eternal capital of the Jewish people. Aug. 31, 2010. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
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80th Kristallnacht anniversary: ‘Jewish people should not have to question their future in Europe’
Yossi LempkowiczEJP09.11.2018
“Nobody should ever be afraid to go to a synagogue or wear a ‘kipah’ in the European Union. Today, as every day, the European Commission stands firm against all forms of anti-Semitism. We will continue to relentlessly fight prejudice and stereotypes in Europe.”
European Union First Vice President Frans Timmermans and Commissioner Vera Jourova on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the “Kristallnach.” Credit: EJP.
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Canadian premier apologizes for nation’s failure to save German Jews on ‘St. Louis’
08.11.2018
“We apologize to the 907 German Jews aboard the ‘St. Louis,’ as well as their families,” said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “We are sorry for the callousness of Canada’s response. We are sorry for not apologizing sooner.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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Anti-Israel boycotters disrupt Holocaust film in Berlin
The Tower12.10.2018
The crowd booed as the two activists were removed from the theater by Israeli security personnel.
Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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Malaysian premier describes Jews as ‘hook-nosed,’ challenges 6 million murdered in Holocaust
Yossi LempkowiczEuropean Jewish Press04.10.2018
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad described Jews as “hook-nosed” and blamed Israel for creating the troubles in the Middle East, in an interview with BBC’s HardTalk.
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Credit: State Department Photo/Wikipedia.
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Pope Francis takes part in ceremony commemorating the liquidation of Vilnius Ghetto
Yossi LempkowiczEJP25.09.2018
Vilnius had been known for centuries as the “Jerusalem of the North” for its importance to Jewish thought and politics. Each year, the September anniversary is commemorated with readings of the names of Jews killed by Nazis or Lithuanian partisans or deported to concentration camps.
Pope Francis. Credit: Alfredo Borba via Wikimedia Commons.
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Honoring Polish rescuers in Warsaw who risked all to save Jews during the Holocaust
17.09.2018
“Your deeds helped to preserve our collective humanity—and we are forever in your debt for doing so,” said Eric Green, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Warsaw.
Captured Jews who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising are rounded up by the Waffen SS on Nowolipie Street, between April 19 and May 16, 1943. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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‘To Bear Witness’: Florida college student’s inaugural photo exhibit illustrates starkness of Poland
Arieh Kovler04.09.2018
Images in Poland may be “thought-provoking,” though they touch on the “macabre,” says Alexander (Avi) Davidson, who can relate to life’s darker moments.
Alexander (Avi) Davidson, a student at the University of South Florida in Tampa, documented his experiences on a Chabad on Campus “Living Links” trip to Poland.
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Ben Cohen24.08.2018
New York’s ‘last Nazi’ is finally deported to Germany
Jakiw Palij may have been low down in the hierarchy, but he was present during “a daylong killing spree of unfathomable ruthlessness and horror,” when 6,000 Jewish women, men and children were massacred at Trawniki by the Germans and their local auxiliaries.
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US deports 95-year-old Nazi collaborator to Germany after years of unsuccessful attempts
21.08.2018
“A 14-year-long campaign has finally been crowned with success,” said Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. “Trawniki guards do not deserve the privilege of living in the United States.”
Former Nazi labor-camp guard Jakiw Palij Credit: Department of Justice.
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Jewish ruins of the Rhine
Orit Arfa20.08.2018
In Mainz, a German city where a Jewish schoolgirl was recently murdered, attempts are underway to recognize its former Jewish glory.
The new synagogue in Mainz, Germany, inaugurated in 2010 on the site of the elaborate 1922 synagogue destroyed by the Kristallnacht pogroms. The replacement synagogue’s sculpted silhouette reads “kedusha” (“sanctification”) and bears the name “Light of the Diaspora,” after the nickname of the 11th-century Jewish sage, Rabbi Gershom ben Yehuda, who established Mainz’s reputation as a Jewish spiritual center. Credit: Sascha Kopp via Mainz Tourism Office.
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