FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
One of the youngest
Holocaust survivors saved by Oskar Schindler has a book deal, for a
manuscript completed shortly before he died.
Leon Leyson's "The Boy on the Wooden Box" will be published by Atheneum on August 27, the publisher announced Monday.
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Friday, 29 March 2013
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Ultra-Orthodox Publication Censors Female Holocaust Victims in Famous Photo
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
One of the most famous pictures marking the atrocities of the Holocaust, was published in the haredi newspaper Bakehila (literally meaning -- in the community), with the faces of all the women censored.
The picture, featuring a Jewish boy in holding his hands up in submission, depicts the surrender of Jews after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, some 70 years ago.
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From ynetnews.com:
One of the most famous pictures marking the atrocities of the Holocaust, was published in the haredi newspaper Bakehila (literally meaning -- in the community), with the faces of all the women censored.
The picture, featuring a Jewish boy in holding his hands up in submission, depicts the surrender of Jews after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, some 70 years ago.
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Tuesday, 26 March 2013
New Colour Photos of Dachau Concentration Camp Revelaed
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
Nearly 70 years after the end of World War II, images depicting the Nazi horror continue to emerge. The Vintage Everyday website posted images and one video clip documenting the Dachau concentration camp after it was liberated by the allied forces in April 29, 1945.
The website did not specify the photos' source or the exact date they were taken. They were later posted by the Daily Mail's website which quoted an expert who confirmed that the images had indeed been taken after the camp was liberated.
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From ynetnews.com:
Nearly 70 years after the end of World War II, images depicting the Nazi horror continue to emerge. The Vintage Everyday website posted images and one video clip documenting the Dachau concentration camp after it was liberated by the allied forces in April 29, 1945.
The website did not specify the photos' source or the exact date they were taken. They were later posted by the Daily Mail's website which quoted an expert who confirmed that the images had indeed been taken after the camp was liberated.
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Sunday, 24 March 2013
Israeli Citizens Protest Their Government's Treatment of Holocaust Survivors
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
Tel Aviv's Rabin square was a site of a rare form of protest on Sunday when a pile of shoes was placed in the square to symbolize Holocaust survivors' dire conditions.
The protesters are calling on citizens to bring their own shoes to add to the pile. Around the display they posted posters which read "You threw them out like an old pair of shoes" and "Where is their money?"
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From ynetnews.com:
Tel Aviv's Rabin square was a site of a rare form of protest on Sunday when a pile of shoes was placed in the square to symbolize Holocaust survivors' dire conditions.
The protesters are calling on citizens to bring their own shoes to add to the pile. Around the display they posted posters which read "You threw them out like an old pair of shoes" and "Where is their money?"
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Friday, 22 March 2013
Jewish Students in France to Take Further Legal Action Against Twitter
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
A Jewish student group has announced it was taking further legal action against Twitter over the global networking site's failure to respond to a French court order to hand over data to help identify the authors of anti-Semitic tweets.
"Twitter is playing the indifference card in not respecting the decision of January 24," when a Paris civil court gave the company two weeks to hand over the requested information, said Jonathan Hayoun, president of France's Union of Jewish Students (UEJF), on Wednesday.
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From ynetnews.com:
A Jewish student group has announced it was taking further legal action against Twitter over the global networking site's failure to respond to a French court order to hand over data to help identify the authors of anti-Semitic tweets.
"Twitter is playing the indifference card in not respecting the decision of January 24," when a Paris civil court gave the company two weeks to hand over the requested information, said Jonathan Hayoun, president of France's Union of Jewish Students (UEJF), on Wednesday.
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German Government Accused of Stalling Compensation to Holocaust Survivors
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
The German Left has launched an unprecedented attack on Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative government, due to its Wednesday snubbing of the parliament's decision to retroactively pay compensation to Holocaust survivors who worked in the ghettos during World War II for the Nazis.
The coalition factions stated in the Bundestag that they will not support paying compensation to the 20,000 Holocaust survivors in question.
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From ynetnews.com:
The German Left has launched an unprecedented attack on Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative government, due to its Wednesday snubbing of the parliament's decision to retroactively pay compensation to Holocaust survivors who worked in the ghettos during World War II for the Nazis.
The coalition factions stated in the Bundestag that they will not support paying compensation to the 20,000 Holocaust survivors in question.
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Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Hungary Under Pressure to Strip Award Given to Journalist Accused of Hate Speech
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
Hungary should withdraw a state journalism award given to a TV presenter whose station was fined in 2011 for making derogatory remarks about Gypsies and Jews, Israel's ambassador said Monday.
Ambassador Ilan Mor said in a statement that Ferenc Szaniszlo's award was given "to the wrong person for the very wrong reasons."
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From ynetnews.com:
Hungary should withdraw a state journalism award given to a TV presenter whose station was fined in 2011 for making derogatory remarks about Gypsies and Jews, Israel's ambassador said Monday.
Ambassador Ilan Mor said in a statement that Ferenc Szaniszlo's award was given "to the wrong person for the very wrong reasons."
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Monday, 18 March 2013
Websites Launched to Tell the Stories of Jewish Refugees From Mideast and North African Countries
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
A San Francisco-based organization has launched 11 websites to tell the stories of Jews who left Arab countries last century.
Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa (JIMENA) launched the sites in both English and Arabic to tell the stories of Jews who emigrated from nine Muslim countries including Turkey and Iran.
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From ynetnews.com:
A San Francisco-based organization has launched 11 websites to tell the stories of Jews who left Arab countries last century.
Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa (JIMENA) launched the sites in both English and Arabic to tell the stories of Jews who emigrated from nine Muslim countries including Turkey and Iran.
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Sunday, 17 March 2013
Greek Jews Mark Anniversary of WWII Deportation to Auschwitz Amid Rising Antisemitism in the Country
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
Greece’s second largest city, Thessaloniki, on Saturday commemorated the 70th anniversary of the first deportation of its Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Around 1,000 people walked in a silent march to the old railway station where the first train left Greece’s northern city for the notorious death camp on March 15, 1943.
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From ynetnews.com:
Greece’s second largest city, Thessaloniki, on Saturday commemorated the 70th anniversary of the first deportation of its Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Around 1,000 people walked in a silent march to the old railway station where the first train left Greece’s northern city for the notorious death camp on March 15, 1943.
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Friday, 15 March 2013
Man Sentenced for Planning to Bomb New York City Synagogues
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
An Algerian man who pleaded guilty to rare state-level terrorism charges that he plotted to blow up New York City synagogues was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison.
Ahmed Ferhani was one of two men arrested in a May 2011 weapons-buying sting. Police called him a home-grown terrorist out to avenge abuse of Muslims around the world, but a grand jury declined to indict Ferhani and a co-defendant on a top-level terror conspiracy charge.
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From ynetnews.com:
An Algerian man who pleaded guilty to rare state-level terrorism charges that he plotted to blow up New York City synagogues was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison.
Ahmed Ferhani was one of two men arrested in a May 2011 weapons-buying sting. Police called him a home-grown terrorist out to avenge abuse of Muslims around the world, but a grand jury declined to indict Ferhani and a co-defendant on a top-level terror conspiracy charge.
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Sunday, 10 March 2013
Bulgaria Admits Failing to Save Jews in WWII
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
Bulgaria's parliament for the first time admitted Friday failing to save over 11,000 Jews from territories under its control as it commemorated the start of deportations 70 years ago.
Bulgaria, an ally of Nazi Germany during World War II "refused the deportation of over 48,000 Jews – Bulgarian citizens – to the death camps," parliament said in a declaration.
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From ynetnews.com:
Bulgaria's parliament for the first time admitted Friday failing to save over 11,000 Jews from territories under its control as it commemorated the start of deportations 70 years ago.
Bulgaria, an ally of Nazi Germany during World War II "refused the deportation of over 48,000 Jews – Bulgarian citizens – to the death camps," parliament said in a declaration.
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Disturbing Survey: Two Out of Five Austrians Believe Hitler's Rule Was Not Too Bad
FSWC Reports:
From Reuters:
Three out of five Austrians want a "strong man" to lead the country and two out of five think things were not all bad under Adolf Hitler, according to a survey released on Friday.
Timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary next week of Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany, the Market Institut poll for newspaper Der Standard found 61 percent of respondents, mostly the elderly - liked the idea of a strong man as leader.
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From Reuters:
Three out of five Austrians want a "strong man" to lead the country and two out of five think things were not all bad under Adolf Hitler, according to a survey released on Friday.
Timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary next week of Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany, the Market Institut poll for newspaper Der Standard found 61 percent of respondents, mostly the elderly - liked the idea of a strong man as leader.
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Friday, 8 March 2013
Newcomer to Italian Political Scene Faces Scrutiny on Anti-Jewish Views
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
Comic Beppe Grillo's populist tirades were seen as a benign outlet for popular anger in the days his protest movement was a sideshow in Italian politics. Now that he's one of Italy's most powerful figures, his views are coming under greater scrutiny – and a history of anti-Semitic statements has started to raise concern outside the country.
Grillo's 5-Star Movement captured a quarter of the votes in last month's national elections, making him the kingmaker in a ballot that left none of the mainstream parties in control of Parliament. Given that political clout, foreign observers have expressed alarm over comments Grillo has made about a Jewish lobby controlling information, about Jewish Hollywood producers out to get actor Mel Gibson and about how he finds Israel "frightening."
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From ynetnews.com:
Comic Beppe Grillo's populist tirades were seen as a benign outlet for popular anger in the days his protest movement was a sideshow in Italian politics. Now that he's one of Italy's most powerful figures, his views are coming under greater scrutiny – and a history of anti-Semitic statements has started to raise concern outside the country.
Grillo's 5-Star Movement captured a quarter of the votes in last month's national elections, making him the kingmaker in a ballot that left none of the mainstream parties in control of Parliament. Given that political clout, foreign observers have expressed alarm over comments Grillo has made about a Jewish lobby controlling information, about Jewish Hollywood producers out to get actor Mel Gibson and about how he finds Israel "frightening."
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Thursday, 7 March 2013
US Reverses Decision to Honour Egyptian Woman After Antisemitic Tweets Revealed
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
The Obama administration is postponing an award for an Egyptian activist who was subjected to a "virginity test" after protesting in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
The State Department had said Samira Ibrahim would be among recipients of an International Women of Courage award presented by Secretary of State John Kerry and first lady Michelle Obama on Friday. Now the State Department says she won't be honored Friday because of anti-American and anti-Semitic comments on her Twitter account.
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From ynetnews.com:
The Obama administration is postponing an award for an Egyptian activist who was subjected to a "virginity test" after protesting in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
The State Department had said Samira Ibrahim would be among recipients of an International Women of Courage award presented by Secretary of State John Kerry and first lady Michelle Obama on Friday. Now the State Department says she won't be honored Friday because of anti-American and anti-Semitic comments on her Twitter account.
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Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Fears for Venezuelan Jewish Community in Post-Chavez Era
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
Venezuela is still mourning President Hugo Chavez's death but the country's expat Jewish community in Israel is more concerned about what the Chavez-free future might entail.
"Chavez knew how to control the extremists, now they'll raise their heads," said one concerned Venezuelan-Israeli.
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From ynetnews.com:
Venezuela is still mourning President Hugo Chavez's death but the country's expat Jewish community in Israel is more concerned about what the Chavez-free future might entail.
"Chavez knew how to control the extremists, now they'll raise their heads," said one concerned Venezuelan-Israeli.
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Tuesday, 5 March 2013
New Research Shows Nazi Labour Camps More Widespread Than Originally Thought
FSWC Reports:
From The Toronto Star:
From The Toronto Star:
In the Polish
countryside, and in the centre of Paris. Hidden from view, and in plain
sight. Hundreds of thousands of prisoners, or just a few dozen. All
different, and deadly, and scattered across wartime Europe.
And all part of the Nazi killing machine.
New research has
revealed there were more than 42,000 individual sites — ranging from
massive concentration camps to small ghettoes — established by the Nazis
between 1933 and 1945. The number far exceeds the fewer than 10,000
sites researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum expected they’d uncover when the project began 13 years ago.
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Sunday, 3 March 2013
New Encyclopedia of Ghettos Now Available Online
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
The Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem has uploaded the Encyclopedia of Ghettos to its website in a new, online Hebrew format.
The English edition of the encyclopedia, written by Prof. Gai Miron and Shlomit Shulhani of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, was published in October 2009 and was later translated into Hebrew.
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From ynetnews.com:
The Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem has uploaded the Encyclopedia of Ghettos to its website in a new, online Hebrew format.
The English edition of the encyclopedia, written by Prof. Gai Miron and Shlomit Shulhani of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, was published in October 2009 and was later translated into Hebrew.
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Action Urged on Rising Danish Antisemitism
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
Danish officials say they’re alarmed by the frequency of anti-Semitic attacks. The rise in physical and verbal assaults in Denmark is in line with claims by Jewish communities that anti-Semitism is on the rise throughout Europe.
At a forum staged by Copenhagen City Council, Danish Jews urged the authorities to take action.
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From ynetnews.com:
Danish officials say they’re alarmed by the frequency of anti-Semitic attacks. The rise in physical and verbal assaults in Denmark is in line with claims by Jewish communities that anti-Semitism is on the rise throughout Europe.
At a forum staged by Copenhagen City Council, Danish Jews urged the authorities to take action.
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