FSWC Reports:
From Reuters:
The head of a
Hungarian anti-racism group said far-right soccer fans shouted "Sieg
Heil" and attacked him, breaking his nose days before the country is due
to host the World Jewish Congress.
Ferenc Orosz, chairman of the
Raoul Wallenberg Association, told Reuters he was assaulted after
arguing with a group of supporters chanting the Nazi slogan at a match
between the Hungarian teams Videoton and Ferencvaros in Budapest on
Sunday.
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Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Thursday, 25 April 2013
US Philanthropist and Holocaust Survivor Celebrates Partial Opening of New Jewish History Museum in Poland
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
As his train rolled across Germany in 1939, passing through small towns where swastikas fluttered from flagpoles, Tad Taube cowered in fear each time Nazi police entered his compartment and barked orders for his documents – papers that plainly identified him as an eight-year-old Jewish boy from Poland.
But the full terror of the war was still a few months off, and Taube got safely through Germany to France, and then by ship to the United States, making a narrow escape from the Holocaust and a passage into a bright American future of Hollywood, football, entrepreneurial success and philanthropy.
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From ynetnews.com:
As his train rolled across Germany in 1939, passing through small towns where swastikas fluttered from flagpoles, Tad Taube cowered in fear each time Nazi police entered his compartment and barked orders for his documents – papers that plainly identified him as an eight-year-old Jewish boy from Poland.
But the full terror of the war was still a few months off, and Taube got safely through Germany to France, and then by ship to the United States, making a narrow escape from the Holocaust and a passage into a bright American future of Hollywood, football, entrepreneurial success and philanthropy.
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Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Record Turnout in Hungary for March to Commemorate Holocaust Victims
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
A record 10,000 Hungarians took part in an annual march to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust on Sunday, amid rising racism and anti-Semitism in the country in recent months. It was more than double the annual turnout.
The ambassadors of Israel and the United States reportedly took part in the event.
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From ynetnews.com:
A record 10,000 Hungarians took part in an annual march to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust on Sunday, amid rising racism and anti-Semitism in the country in recent months. It was more than double the annual turnout.
The ambassadors of Israel and the United States reportedly took part in the event.
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Monday, 22 April 2013
Amsterdam Forced Jews Returning From Concentration Camps to Pay Rent Arrears According to Research by University Student
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
Amsterdam council has vowed to probe revelations that it forced Jews returning from World War II concentration camps to pay rent arrears, even if their homes had been destroyed or occupied by Nazis.
The scandal, involving an unknown number of Jews and non-Jews living in city-owned properties, was uncovered by a young art history student in Amsterdam's archives.
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From ynetnews.com:
Amsterdam council has vowed to probe revelations that it forced Jews returning from World War II concentration camps to pay rent arrears, even if their homes had been destroyed or occupied by Nazis.
The scandal, involving an unknown number of Jews and non-Jews living in city-owned properties, was uncovered by a young art history student in Amsterdam's archives.
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Sunday, 21 April 2013
US Lawmaker Apologizes for Antisemitic Remark
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
A Republican lawmaker from Duncan, Oklahoma apologized Wednesday for a derogatory remark he made toward Jewish people while debating a bill on the House floor.
Rep. Dennis Johnson used the word "Jew" in the context of negotiating a lower price for an item while discussing a bill to modify a current law that requires a minimum 6% markup on the retail sale of most goods.
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From ynetnews.com:
A Republican lawmaker from Duncan, Oklahoma apologized Wednesday for a derogatory remark he made toward Jewish people while debating a bill on the House floor.
Rep. Dennis Johnson used the word "Jew" in the context of negotiating a lower price for an item while discussing a bill to modify a current law that requires a minimum 6% markup on the retail sale of most goods.
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Saturday, 20 April 2013
Czechs Commemorate Holocaust-Era Jewish Soccer League
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
Locked up in the Nazi transit camp of Terezin, Jewish prisoners created their own football league, which Czech football recently commemorated by finally granting it official recognition.
"Playing football, we didn't think of deportation or the stress caused by life in the ghetto," famed Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Klima once said. Sent to the ghetto near Prague aged just 10, Klima played for the children's team "Blauweiss" (Blue-whites).
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From ynetnews.com:
Locked up in the Nazi transit camp of Terezin, Jewish prisoners created their own football league, which Czech football recently commemorated by finally granting it official recognition.
"Playing football, we didn't think of deportation or the stress caused by life in the ghetto," famed Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Klima once said. Sent to the ghetto near Prague aged just 10, Klima played for the children's team "Blauweiss" (Blue-whites).
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Monday, 15 April 2013
Canadian Pop Star Justin Bieber Courts Controversy Over Anne Frank Comment
FSWC Reports:
From Reuters:
Teenage pop star Justin Bieber is taking heat on social media after the Anne Frank House reported he visited the Amsterdam museum and wrote in the guest book he hoped the young Holocaust victim would have been a "belieber," the popular term for his fans.
A post on Saturday on the Facebook page of the museum said Bieber had visited the previous night and stayed over an hour, along with a group of friends and guards as fans waited outside to "see a glimpse of him."
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From Reuters:
Teenage pop star Justin Bieber is taking heat on social media after the Anne Frank House reported he visited the Amsterdam museum and wrote in the guest book he hoped the young Holocaust victim would have been a "belieber," the popular term for his fans.
A post on Saturday on the Facebook page of the museum said Bieber had visited the previous night and stayed over an hour, along with a group of friends and guards as fans waited outside to "see a glimpse of him."
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Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Neo-Nazi Network in German Jails Discovered
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
German authorities say they are tightening security measures after discovering a neo-Nazi network inside the country's prisons.
The network, which was used to try and organize financial help for far-right convicts and their relatives, was discovered in the state of Hesse after evidence was uncovered during a search of prison cells.
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From ynetnews.com:
German authorities say they are tightening security measures after discovering a neo-Nazi network inside the country's prisons.
The network, which was used to try and organize financial help for far-right convicts and their relatives, was discovered in the state of Hesse after evidence was uncovered during a search of prison cells.
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Parents Irate After Israeli Teacher Demonstrates Nazi Selection Process
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
Parents who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union and their third grade children attending a Haifa school, were shocked this week by a lesson given by their Hebrew teacher.
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, she chose to demonstrate the Nazi selection process between Jews and non-Jews, by using light-haired children.
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From ynetnews.com:
Parents who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union and their third grade children attending a Haifa school, were shocked this week by a lesson given by their Hebrew teacher.
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, she chose to demonstrate the Nazi selection process between Jews and non-Jews, by using light-haired children.
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Monday, 8 April 2013
Jews Who Saved Fellow Jews During Holocaust Honoured
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
We have all heard about the Righteous Among the Nations, non-Jews who saved the lives of Jews during the Holocaust, but many of us are unfamiliar with the stories of Jews who risked their lives to save fellow Jews during World War II.
In a unique annual commemoration ceremony held Monday as Israel marked Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day, 28 Jewish Rescuers Citations were granted to Jewish rescuers who were active in Hungary during the war.
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From ynetnews.com:
We have all heard about the Righteous Among the Nations, non-Jews who saved the lives of Jews during the Holocaust, but many of us are unfamiliar with the stories of Jews who risked their lives to save fellow Jews during World War II.
In a unique annual commemoration ceremony held Monday as Israel marked Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day, 28 Jewish Rescuers Citations were granted to Jewish rescuers who were active in Hungary during the war.
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Saturday, 6 April 2013
50 Former Auschwitz Guards to Stand Trial in Germany
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
About 50 men in their 90s are to stand trial for their service as guards in the Auschwitz Nazi death camp during World War II.
The WAZ German news website reported that legal proceedings will be opened against the suspects who will be charged with accessory to murder,
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From ynetnews.com:
About 50 men in their 90s are to stand trial for their service as guards in the Auschwitz Nazi death camp during World War II.
The WAZ German news website reported that legal proceedings will be opened against the suspects who will be charged with accessory to murder,
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Thursday, 4 April 2013
Palestinian Authority Residents Visit Yad Vashem
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
Ahmed al-Jaafari, a 43-year-old Deheishe refugee camp resident, stands opposite the list of Jews who were sent to the Sobibor death camp. At a certain point, he turns to the guide, Roee Hanani, and asks "why did they keep such an organized list if they planned on killing them all along?"
Hanani replied him in Arabic "the Nazis were very organized. They believed that they were solving a world problem and wanted to take pride in what they did."
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From ynetnews.com:
Ahmed al-Jaafari, a 43-year-old Deheishe refugee camp resident, stands opposite the list of Jews who were sent to the Sobibor death camp. At a certain point, he turns to the guide, Roee Hanani, and asks "why did they keep such an organized list if they planned on killing them all along?"
Hanani replied him in Arabic "the Nazis were very organized. They believed that they were solving a world problem and wanted to take pride in what they did."
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Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Israeli Holocaust Survivors Seek More Help From Their Government
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
Some 19% of Holocaust survivors living in Israel have skipped at least one meal over the past year due to economic troubles, according to a poll conducted by the Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims in Israel.
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From ynetnews.com:
Some 19% of Holocaust survivors living in Israel have skipped at least one meal over the past year due to economic troubles, according to a poll conducted by the Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims in Israel.
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Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Interest and Controversy Over New Exibit of German Jews
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
"Are there still Jews in Germany?" "Are the Jews a chosen people?"
Nearly 70 years after the Holocaust, there is no more sensitive an issue in German life as the role of Jews. With fewer than 200,000 Jews among Germany's 82 million people, few Germans born after World War II know any Jews or much about them.
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From ynetnews.com:
"Are there still Jews in Germany?" "Are the Jews a chosen people?"
Nearly 70 years after the Holocaust, there is no more sensitive an issue in German life as the role of Jews. With fewer than 200,000 Jews among Germany's 82 million people, few Germans born after World War II know any Jews or much about them.
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Fighter Passes Away in Israel
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
He was a disciplined fighter in the eyes of his Polish commanders. A boy who dared to face a German officer and disguised himself as a Christian; a “classic story of survival and Zionism,” in the eyes of his son.
Holocaust survivor Peretz ‘Pavel’ Hochman, a fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Germans, died of cancer on Sunday. He was 86. Next week he was supposed to light a torch at Yad Vashem’s Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony. His widow will light the candle in his place.
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From ynetnews.com:
He was a disciplined fighter in the eyes of his Polish commanders. A boy who dared to face a German officer and disguised himself as a Christian; a “classic story of survival and Zionism,” in the eyes of his son.
Holocaust survivor Peretz ‘Pavel’ Hochman, a fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Germans, died of cancer on Sunday. He was 86. Next week he was supposed to light a torch at Yad Vashem’s Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony. His widow will light the candle in his place.
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