FSWC Reports:
From AFP via ynetnews.com:
Police in Hungary forcibly removed protestors on Tuesday from the site of a planned World War II monument
which Jewish critics say glosses over the country's role in the Holocaust.
Organizers of the
sitdown protest said police physically lifted over 20 people, including a
number of Holocaust survivors, from the planned site of the monument in
the capital, Budapest.
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Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Cobblestones Used to Remember Jews Murdered in the Holocaust
FSWC Reports:
From Reuters:
Veronika Houboi watched as a man in a cowboy hat and clogs wielded a sledge hammer to smash up and remove a dozen small cobblestones from a Berlin pavement.
He quickly filled the resulting hole with two identical blocks of concrete capped with inscribed square brass plates.
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From Reuters:
Veronika Houboi watched as a man in a cowboy hat and clogs wielded a sledge hammer to smash up and remove a dozen small cobblestones from a Berlin pavement.
He quickly filled the resulting hole with two identical blocks of concrete capped with inscribed square brass plates.
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European Rabbis Vow to Block "Anti-Semitic Legislation"
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
Dozens of senior European state and city rabbis held a special ceremony this week in memory of the victims of the Holocaust at the seat of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France.
The event marked the opening of the meeting of the standing committee of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER), which was held this time at a particularly symbolic place and timing – at the Council of Europe building on the day that the entire Jewish people paused to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust.
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From ynetnews.com:
Dozens of senior European state and city rabbis held a special ceremony this week in memory of the victims of the Holocaust at the seat of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France.
The event marked the opening of the meeting of the standing committee of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER), which was held this time at a particularly symbolic place and timing – at the Council of Europe building on the day that the entire Jewish people paused to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust.
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Monday, 28 April 2014
U.S. and Germany Given Top Marks for Measures Aimed at Bringing Nazi War Criminals to Justice
FSWC Reports:
From AFP via ynetnews.com:
The Israel branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center on Sunday gave Germany and the United States top marks in its annual report on efforts to hunt down Nazi war criminals.
It placed both countries in its Category A, of states which "have taken all reasonable measures to identify the potential suspected Nazi war criminals in the country in order to maximize investigation and prosecution and have achieved notable results during the period under review."
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From AFP via ynetnews.com:
The Israel branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center on Sunday gave Germany and the United States top marks in its annual report on efforts to hunt down Nazi war criminals.
It placed both countries in its Category A, of states which "have taken all reasonable measures to identify the potential suspected Nazi war criminals in the country in order to maximize investigation and prosecution and have achieved notable results during the period under review."
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Students and Professor From West Bank University Form the First Palestinian Delegation to Visit Auschwitz
FSWC Reports:
From The Media Line via ynetnews.com:
Despite the frequency with which students from high schools and colleges worldwide visit Holocaust death camps, it was no simple matter for Issa Jameel when he was asked whether he wanted to visit Auschwitz.
For Jameel, a Palestinian master’s student from Al-Quds University in Jerusalem, the opportunity was laced with political and nationalistic issues his peers don’t have to deal with. According to Jameel, it was only when he realized it would be an important educational experience to learn about the Jews in the Holocaust during World War II that he was convinced and signed-on as student coordinator for the trip.
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From The Media Line via ynetnews.com:
Despite the frequency with which students from high schools and colleges worldwide visit Holocaust death camps, it was no simple matter for Issa Jameel when he was asked whether he wanted to visit Auschwitz.
For Jameel, a Palestinian master’s student from Al-Quds University in Jerusalem, the opportunity was laced with political and nationalistic issues his peers don’t have to deal with. According to Jameel, it was only when he realized it would be an important educational experience to learn about the Jews in the Holocaust during World War II that he was convinced and signed-on as student coordinator for the trip.
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Sunday, 27 April 2014
Owner of Basketball's Los Angelese Clippers Under Fire for Racist Comments. Claims "Black Jews" are Inferior to "White Jews"
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
On the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, the Jewish owner of the LA Clippers continued to get himself ensnarled in a race related scandal.
After a recording in which he made racists comments about NBA players surfaced caused a storm, an extended version had him belittling "black Jews" and claiming they are worth less than "white Jews" in a conversation with his girlfriend has emerged.
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From ynetnews.com:
On the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, the Jewish owner of the LA Clippers continued to get himself ensnarled in a race related scandal.
After a recording in which he made racists comments about NBA players surfaced caused a storm, an extended version had him belittling "black Jews" and claiming they are worth less than "white Jews" in a conversation with his girlfriend has emerged.
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Israeli Primer Minister Says Palestinian Terrorist Group Wants a New Holocaust
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
As Israel geared up to mark its annual memorial day for the Holocaust, Prime Minister Benjamin netanyahu renewed his attack on the new Palestinian unity agreement between Fatah and Hamas by drawing a comparison between Hamas and the Nazis.
"Hamas is trying to start another Holocaust," the prime minister told his cabinet at the start of its weekly meeting Sunday. "We hope that he will withdraw from the alliance and return to the path of peace."
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From ynetnews.com:
As Israel geared up to mark its annual memorial day for the Holocaust, Prime Minister Benjamin netanyahu renewed his attack on the new Palestinian unity agreement between Fatah and Hamas by drawing a comparison between Hamas and the Nazis.
"Hamas is trying to start another Holocaust," the prime minister told his cabinet at the start of its weekly meeting Sunday. "We hope that he will withdraw from the alliance and return to the path of peace."
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Relatives of Holocaust Perpetrators Take Part in March of Life
FSWC Reports:
From the Associated Press:
Seeking atonement for their relatives, the grandchildren of some of those involved in the Holocaust joined the annual March of Life walk this year as it shifted to Hungary.
Dozens of Hungarians joined about 250 Germans on the trek — a five-day walk along the route taken by tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews who were marched to Germany and Austria as forced laborers at the end of World War II.
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From the Associated Press:
Seeking atonement for their relatives, the grandchildren of some of those involved in the Holocaust joined the annual March of Life walk this year as it shifted to Hungary.
Dozens of Hungarians joined about 250 Germans on the trek — a five-day walk along the route taken by tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews who were marched to Germany and Austria as forced laborers at the end of World War II.
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Former Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, Accuses Germans of Denying Existence of Concentration Camps
FSWC Reports:
From Reuters:
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, about to begin a sentence for tax fraud, provoked fresh outrage from his political opponents on Saturday by suggesting that Germany did not acknowledge the existence of World War Two concentration camps.
Berlusconi provoked the latest in a long line of controversies when he took another swipe at his old foe Martin Schulz, the German president of the European parliament and the center-left candidate to lead the EU Commission.
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From Reuters:
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, about to begin a sentence for tax fraud, provoked fresh outrage from his political opponents on Saturday by suggesting that Germany did not acknowledge the existence of World War Two concentration camps.
Berlusconi provoked the latest in a long line of controversies when he took another swipe at his old foe Martin Schulz, the German president of the European parliament and the center-left candidate to lead the EU Commission.
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"Train of the Living" to Travel from Budapest, Hungary to Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
The ascend of Hungarian anti-Semitism has pushed the organizers of the March of the Living to diverge from the usual format of Holocaust Memorial Day events and begin the journey of "The Train of the Living" from Hungary's capital to Poland's most infamous extermination camp.
Seven decades ago the Germans and their Hungarian allies began the systematic annihilation of the Jewish community in Hungary. In less than six months, about half a million Jews were transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Thousands others were brutally murdered by the Hungarian Fascist regime.
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From ynetnews.com:
The ascend of Hungarian anti-Semitism has pushed the organizers of the March of the Living to diverge from the usual format of Holocaust Memorial Day events and begin the journey of "The Train of the Living" from Hungary's capital to Poland's most infamous extermination camp.
Seven decades ago the Germans and their Hungarian allies began the systematic annihilation of the Jewish community in Hungary. In less than six months, about half a million Jews were transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Thousands others were brutally murdered by the Hungarian Fascist regime.
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Palestinian President Calls Holocaust "Most Heinous Crime"
FSWC Reports:
From the Associated Press:
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called the Holocaust "the most heinous crime" of modern history and expressed his sympathy for the victims, a rare acknowledgment by an Arab leader of Jewish suffering during the Nazi genocide.
Abbas' comments appeared, in part, aimed at reaching out to Israeli public opinion at a time of deep crisis in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. The remarks were published by the Palestinian official news agency WAFA just hours before the start of Israel's annual Holocaust commemoration.
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From the Associated Press:
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called the Holocaust "the most heinous crime" of modern history and expressed his sympathy for the victims, a rare acknowledgment by an Arab leader of Jewish suffering during the Nazi genocide.
Abbas' comments appeared, in part, aimed at reaching out to Israeli public opinion at a time of deep crisis in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. The remarks were published by the Palestinian official news agency WAFA just hours before the start of Israel's annual Holocaust commemoration.
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Report: Violent Attacks on Jews Down, But Antisemitism Up
FSWC Reports:
From the Associated Press:
Violent attacks against Jews worldwide dropped in 2013, but anti-Semitism is becoming more widespread in Europe amid a rise in popularity of extremist parties, according to a report released Sunday.
Researchers at Tel Aviv University recorded 554 violent anti-Semitic acts in 2013, including attacks on people and vandalism against synagogues, cemeteries and other Jewish institutions.
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From the Associated Press:
Violent attacks against Jews worldwide dropped in 2013, but anti-Semitism is becoming more widespread in Europe amid a rise in popularity of extremist parties, according to a report released Sunday.
Researchers at Tel Aviv University recorded 554 violent anti-Semitic acts in 2013, including attacks on people and vandalism against synagogues, cemeteries and other Jewish institutions.
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Friday, 25 April 2014
Artists to Promote Holocaust Education at U.N.
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
A group of diverse artists will discuss creative ways of conveying the universal lessons of the Holocaust through the powerful medium of the arts on April 28 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
The event is organized by the United Nations Department of Public Information’s Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Program in partnership with the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations and the World Jewish Congress.
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From ynetnews.com:
A group of diverse artists will discuss creative ways of conveying the universal lessons of the Holocaust through the powerful medium of the arts on April 28 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
The event is organized by the United Nations Department of Public Information’s Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Program in partnership with the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations and the World Jewish Congress.
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Former Popes Who Revolutionized Catholic-Jewish Relations Soon to be Made Saints
FSWC Reports:
From Reuters:
The late Popes John XXIII and John Paul II, who will be made saints on Sunday, did so much to end two millennia of Catholic anti-Semitism that a Jewish human rights group calls them "heroes to the Jewish people".
Both pontiffs marked the world's largest church in such varied ways that most Roman Catholics would probably list their pioneering respect for Jews, whom John Paul called "our beloved elder brothers" in faith, behind their other achievements.
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From Reuters:
The late Popes John XXIII and John Paul II, who will be made saints on Sunday, did so much to end two millennia of Catholic anti-Semitism that a Jewish human rights group calls them "heroes to the Jewish people".
Both pontiffs marked the world's largest church in such varied ways that most Roman Catholics would probably list their pioneering respect for Jews, whom John Paul called "our beloved elder brothers" in faith, behind their other achievements.
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Thursday, 24 April 2014
Israeli Kindergarten Students to Learn About the Holocaust
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
The Education Ministry on Thursday published a new planned curriculum to teach Israel's schoolchildren about the Holocaust, including those of kindergarten age.
Under the new plan, entitled "For The Memory", kindergarten teachers will choose "an appropriately tailored approach to presenting Holocaust Remembrance Day to the kindergartners, depending on their respective stages of development, the knowledge they bring from home, their personalities, and their sensitivity."
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From ynetnews.com:
The Education Ministry on Thursday published a new planned curriculum to teach Israel's schoolchildren about the Holocaust, including those of kindergarten age.
Under the new plan, entitled "For The Memory", kindergarten teachers will choose "an appropriately tailored approach to presenting Holocaust Remembrance Day to the kindergartners, depending on their respective stages of development, the knowledge they bring from home, their personalities, and their sensitivity."
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Wednesday, 23 April 2014
Soccer Player in England Fined Over "Quenelle" Comments
FSWC Reports:
From Reuters:
Hull City's Yannick Sagbo has been fined £15,000 over comments posted on Twitter relating to the "quenelle" gesture, the FA said on Tuesday.
The French-born Ivory Coast international was charged in April after posting a picture of Nicolas Anelka making the "quenelle" gesture, which has links to anti-Semitism, with the caption "legend".
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From Reuters:
Hull City's Yannick Sagbo has been fined £15,000 over comments posted on Twitter relating to the "quenelle" gesture, the FA said on Tuesday.
The French-born Ivory Coast international was charged in April after posting a picture of Nicolas Anelka making the "quenelle" gesture, which has links to anti-Semitism, with the caption "legend".
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Mayor in Missouri Town Resigns Over Antisemitic Remarks
FSWC Reports:
From Reuters:
The mayor of a southwestern Missouri town resigned on Tuesday in the wake of community anger over anti-Semitic comments he made in reference to recent killings at two Jewish community facilities in Kansas.
Dan Clevenger submitted a hand-written, one-sentence letter of resignation as mayor of Marionville, Missouri, a town of 2,225 people about 240 miles southwest of St. Louis.
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From Reuters:
The mayor of a southwestern Missouri town resigned on Tuesday in the wake of community anger over anti-Semitic comments he made in reference to recent killings at two Jewish community facilities in Kansas.
Dan Clevenger submitted a hand-written, one-sentence letter of resignation as mayor of Marionville, Missouri, a town of 2,225 people about 240 miles southwest of St. Louis.
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Dutch Student Fought for Holocaust Survivors
FSWC Reports:
From the Associated Press:
Charlotte van den Berg was a 20-year-old college student working part-time in Amsterdam's city archives when she and other interns came across a shocking find: letters from Jewish Holocaust survivors complaining that the city was forcing them to pay back taxes and late payment fines on property seized after they were deported to Nazi death camps.
How, the survivors asked, could they be on the hook for taxes due while Hitler's regime was trying to exterminate them? A typical response was: "The base fees and the fines for late payment must be satisfied, regardless of whether a third party, legally empowered or not, has for some time held the title to the building."
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From the Associated Press:
Charlotte van den Berg was a 20-year-old college student working part-time in Amsterdam's city archives when she and other interns came across a shocking find: letters from Jewish Holocaust survivors complaining that the city was forcing them to pay back taxes and late payment fines on property seized after they were deported to Nazi death camps.
How, the survivors asked, could they be on the hook for taxes due while Hitler's regime was trying to exterminate them? A typical response was: "The base fees and the fines for late payment must be satisfied, regardless of whether a third party, legally empowered or not, has for some time held the title to the building."
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Jesus Depicted in Film as Holocaust Victim
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
Jesus Christ makes a surprising appearance in a dramatic YouTube video depicting Jews arriving at the Auschwitz extermination camp and being sent right - to hard labor - or left - to the gas chambers.
The video was created by an evangelical group called Jews for Jesus, and aims to convert Jews to Christianity.
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From ynetnews.com:
Jesus Christ makes a surprising appearance in a dramatic YouTube video depicting Jews arriving at the Auschwitz extermination camp and being sent right - to hard labor - or left - to the gas chambers.
The video was created by an evangelical group called Jews for Jesus, and aims to convert Jews to Christianity.
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Ukraine's Prime Minister Condemns Anti-Jewish Flyers
FSWC Reports:
From AFP and ynetnews.com:
Ukraine’s prime minister voiced outrage at reports that masked men in east Ukraine’s main city handed out leaflets demanding Jews register or be expelled, NBC News reported Saturday.
Members of the Jewish community in the pro-Russian protest hub of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine said Friday that they were left shaken by the distribution of tracts demanding the registration of Jews, Ynet first reported.
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From AFP and ynetnews.com:
Ukraine’s prime minister voiced outrage at reports that masked men in east Ukraine’s main city handed out leaflets demanding Jews register or be expelled, NBC News reported Saturday.
Members of the Jewish community in the pro-Russian protest hub of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine said Friday that they were left shaken by the distribution of tracts demanding the registration of Jews, Ynet first reported.
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"German Apples Front" Fights Neo-Nazism by Making Fun of It
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
One clear morning in 2004, an elderly man walking down the streets of the German city Leipzig came across a familiar sight which awoke unpleasant memories of the past: Dozens of demonstrators with a red arm-band with a white circle on it and a black symbol within. He witnessed Nazi demonstrations in his city in the past, but this time he decided to take a stand. He stuck out his leg as the protest's leader passed him by, tripped him and watched with a smile as he fell to the ground.
The activists’ reaction was handing the old man a flyer. The elderly man walked away, and only after a few dozen feet suddenly noticed: The symbol on the arm of the demonstrators was not a swastika, but an apple.
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From ynetnews.com:
One clear morning in 2004, an elderly man walking down the streets of the German city Leipzig came across a familiar sight which awoke unpleasant memories of the past: Dozens of demonstrators with a red arm-band with a white circle on it and a black symbol within. He witnessed Nazi demonstrations in his city in the past, but this time he decided to take a stand. He stuck out his leg as the protest's leader passed him by, tripped him and watched with a smile as he fell to the ground.
The activists’ reaction was handing the old man a flyer. The elderly man walked away, and only after a few dozen feet suddenly noticed: The symbol on the arm of the demonstrators was not a swastika, but an apple.
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Jewish Rescuers Citation to be Given to Former Wrestler and Seven Others at Upcoming Holocaust Commemoration Ceremony
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
B’nai B’rith World Center and Jewish National Fund will mark their twelfth Holocaust commemoration ceremony by honoring Jonas Eckstein, a Bratislava-born Jew who saved thousands of lives while risking his own.
Eckstein was an active member of the Jewish community in Bratislava and was successful wrestler in “Hakoach” Jewish sport club in the city. His sporting activities allowed Eckstein to befriend city officials and police, which later facilitated his rescue activities.
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From ynetnews.com:
B’nai B’rith World Center and Jewish National Fund will mark their twelfth Holocaust commemoration ceremony by honoring Jonas Eckstein, a Bratislava-born Jew who saved thousands of lives while risking his own.
Eckstein was an active member of the Jewish community in Bratislava and was successful wrestler in “Hakoach” Jewish sport club in the city. His sporting activities allowed Eckstein to befriend city officials and police, which later facilitated his rescue activities.
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Thousands of Holocaust Survivors in Israel Live in Poverty
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
Fifty thousand of the country's 193,000 Holocaust survivors live beneath the poverty line while one-fifth have had to cut back on food and medicine in the last two years due to financial difficulties, a report by the Foundation for the Benefit of the Holocaust Victims in Israel released Wednesday said.
The report, released just days before the Holocaust Memorial Day, said that 36 percent of survivors in Israel live alone and 10,000 are childless.
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From ynetnews.com:
Fifty thousand of the country's 193,000 Holocaust survivors live beneath the poverty line while one-fifth have had to cut back on food and medicine in the last two years due to financial difficulties, a report by the Foundation for the Benefit of the Holocaust Victims in Israel released Wednesday said.
The report, released just days before the Holocaust Memorial Day, said that 36 percent of survivors in Israel live alone and 10,000 are childless.
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Thursday, 17 April 2014
Auction of Hitler Box and Other Nazi-Owned Items Cancelled Following Outcry
FSWC Reports:
From the Associated Press:
A Paris auction house has dropped plans to sell a swastika-covered box that once belonged to Adolf Hitler and dozens of other Nazi-owned objects that were collected as war spoils from World War II, blaming "political pressure."
The Vermot de Pas house on Monday canceled the April 26 sale of some 40 items that French forces seized from Hitler's Bavaria home in the waning days of Nazi Germany in May 1945. Passports of Hermann Goering, an aviator's watch, pictures of Hitler and silverware were among the items that were to go under the block.
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From the Associated Press:
A Paris auction house has dropped plans to sell a swastika-covered box that once belonged to Adolf Hitler and dozens of other Nazi-owned objects that were collected as war spoils from World War II, blaming "political pressure."
The Vermot de Pas house on Monday canceled the April 26 sale of some 40 items that French forces seized from Hitler's Bavaria home in the waning days of Nazi Germany in May 1945. Passports of Hermann Goering, an aviator's watch, pictures of Hitler and silverware were among the items that were to go under the block.
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Security Beefed Up at Jewish Institutions in the U.S. Following Recent Shooting Attack at Jewish Centres
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
Jewish communities across the United States have increased security for Jewish schools, synagogues and other Jewish institutes in the wake of the anti-Semitic shootings at two Jewish centers in Overland Park, which claimed the lives of three people.
The shooter, Frazier Glenn Miller, 73, is a white supremacist, a neo-Nazi and a former Ku Klux Klan leader, which has been on the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) radar for some 30 years.
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From ynetnews.com:
Jewish communities across the United States have increased security for Jewish schools, synagogues and other Jewish institutes in the wake of the anti-Semitic shootings at two Jewish centers in Overland Park, which claimed the lives of three people.
The shooter, Frazier Glenn Miller, 73, is a white supremacist, a neo-Nazi and a former Ku Klux Klan leader, which has been on the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) radar for some 30 years.
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Boycotts and Protests Mark Hungary's Commemoration of the Holocaust
FSWC Reports:
From AFP via ynetnews.com:
PECS - Hungary began the 70th anniversary commemorations of the Holocaust on Wednesday amid boycotts and protests by Jewish groups which accuse the government of whitewashing the country's role in the mass deportations of Jews in 1944.
Marking the day when Hungarian Jews were first placed in ghettoes in 1944, ceremonies were held around the country as part of "Holocaust 2014," a program of events organized by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government.
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From AFP via ynetnews.com:
PECS - Hungary began the 70th anniversary commemorations of the Holocaust on Wednesday amid boycotts and protests by Jewish groups which accuse the government of whitewashing the country's role in the mass deportations of Jews in 1944.
Marking the day when Hungarian Jews were first placed in ghettoes in 1944, ceremonies were held around the country as part of "Holocaust 2014," a program of events organized by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government.
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London, England Jewish Community Concerned About New Store Opened by Clothing Firm Accused of Catering to Neo-Nazis
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
Controversial clothing line Thor Steiner, accused of catering to neo-Nazis, opened a new store in the middle of London's largest Jewish neighborhood, according to a report in the Independent.
Thor Steiner has faced heavy opposition in the past due to its use of logos reminiscent of those worn by Nazi SS officers during World War II.
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From ynetnews.com:
Controversial clothing line Thor Steiner, accused of catering to neo-Nazis, opened a new store in the middle of London's largest Jewish neighborhood, according to a report in the Independent.
Thor Steiner has faced heavy opposition in the past due to its use of logos reminiscent of those worn by Nazi SS officers during World War II.
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Leaflets Distributed to Jewish Residents in Ukrainian City of Donetsk Telling Them to Register Their Religion and Property or Face Deportation and Loss of Citizenship
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
A leaflet distributed in Donetsk, Ukraine calling for all Jews over 16 years old to register as Jews marred the Jewish community's Passover festivities Monday (Passover eve), replacing them with feelings of concern.
The leaflet demanded the city's Jews supply a detailed list of all the property they own, or else have their citizenship revoked, face deportion and see their assets confiscated.
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From ynetnews.com:
A leaflet distributed in Donetsk, Ukraine calling for all Jews over 16 years old to register as Jews marred the Jewish community's Passover festivities Monday (Passover eve), replacing them with feelings of concern.
The leaflet demanded the city's Jews supply a detailed list of all the property they own, or else have their citizenship revoked, face deportion and see their assets confiscated.
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Monday, 14 April 2014
U.S. President and Israeli Prime Minister Condemn Shootings at Kansas City Jewish Centres
FSWC Reports:
From the Associated Press via ynetnews.com:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent his condolences Monday to the families of the victims in the shootings outside a Jewish community center and a retirement village in Overland Park.
"We are condemning the murder which according to all signs was committed because of hatred of Jews," Netanyahu said in a statement. "The state of Israel ... together with all civilized peoples is committed to fighting against this plague."
US President Barack Obama also offered his condolences to the families of the victims of the shootings.
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From the Associated Press via ynetnews.com:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent his condolences Monday to the families of the victims in the shootings outside a Jewish community center and a retirement village in Overland Park.
"We are condemning the murder which according to all signs was committed because of hatred of Jews," Netanyahu said in a statement. "The state of Israel ... together with all civilized peoples is committed to fighting against this plague."
US President Barack Obama also offered his condolences to the families of the victims of the shootings.
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Suspect in Shooting Attacks at Kansas City Jewish Centres a Ku Klux Klan Member and Avid White Supremecist
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com with contributions from the Associated Press:
"White people, unlike Jews, have no power at all. We don't have leaders, we don't have unity, we don't have power at all," Frazier Glenn Miller said in an interview in 2012, revealing a little of the anti-Semitic beliefs of the man who murdered three people in two Jewish centers in the suburbs of Kansas City. The 73-year-old killer, who is also known as Glenn Miller or Fraizer Cross, is the former grand dragon of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
He began his rampage at about 1 pm, local time, shooting dead a Christian man and his 14-year-old grandson, as well as a woman in her 70s. He was captured a short while afterwards and booked on a preliminary charge of first-degree murder.
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From ynetnews.com with contributions from the Associated Press:
"White people, unlike Jews, have no power at all. We don't have leaders, we don't have unity, we don't have power at all," Frazier Glenn Miller said in an interview in 2012, revealing a little of the anti-Semitic beliefs of the man who murdered three people in two Jewish centers in the suburbs of Kansas City. The 73-year-old killer, who is also known as Glenn Miller or Fraizer Cross, is the former grand dragon of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
He began his rampage at about 1 pm, local time, shooting dead a Christian man and his 14-year-old grandson, as well as a woman in her 70s. He was captured a short while afterwards and booked on a preliminary charge of first-degree murder.
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Sunday, 13 April 2014
Three Dead in Shooting at Kansas City Jewish Centres
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
Three people were killed in two shootings in two Jewish centers in Kansas. A suspect has been arrested and was heard yelling "heil Hitler" as he was taken into custody.
Overland Park Police confirmed that multiple shots were fired at the JCC center and the Village Shalom retirement home. Two men were killed at the JCC - which was full of teens auditioning for KC Superstar - and another 70-year-old women was killed at the assisting living center.
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From ynetnews.com:
Three people were killed in two shootings in two Jewish centers in Kansas. A suspect has been arrested and was heard yelling "heil Hitler" as he was taken into custody.
Overland Park Police confirmed that multiple shots were fired at the JCC center and the Village Shalom retirement home. Two men were killed at the JCC - which was full of teens auditioning for KC Superstar - and another 70-year-old women was killed at the assisting living center.
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Spanish Village Called "Kill Jews" to Vote on Changing Its Name
FSWC Reports:
From ynetnews.com:
A small village in the north of Spain called Castrillo Matajudios will hold a special meeting next week to decide on whether to change its name, translated into English as "Kill Jews," Spanish paper Diario de Burgos reported on Friday.
The 60 families living in the village will be asked to discuss the proposal to remove the word "Matajudios" from the village name and then vote on it.
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From ynetnews.com:
A small village in the north of Spain called Castrillo Matajudios will hold a special meeting next week to decide on whether to change its name, translated into English as "Kill Jews," Spanish paper Diario de Burgos reported on Friday.
The 60 families living in the village will be asked to discuss the proposal to remove the word "Matajudios" from the village name and then vote on it.
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Anne Frank Tree to be Planted on U.S. Capitol Lawn
FSWC Reports:
From AFP via ynetnews.com:
A sapling grown from the tree that Holocaust victim Anne Frank wrote about while in hiding will be planted this month on the US Capitol grounds, congressional leaders announced Tuesday.
"The Anne Frank memorial tree is an offspring of the horse chestnut tree that was featured in Anne's diary writings," House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wrote in a letter to members of Congress.
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From AFP via ynetnews.com:
A sapling grown from the tree that Holocaust victim Anne Frank wrote about while in hiding will be planted this month on the US Capitol grounds, congressional leaders announced Tuesday.
"The Anne Frank memorial tree is an offspring of the horse chestnut tree that was featured in Anne's diary writings," House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wrote in a letter to members of Congress.
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Vienna Orchestra to Return Painting Stolen by Nazis
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From Reuters:
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra will return to a French family a valuable painting that was looted by the Nazis and given to the orchestra as a gift in 1940 by a Viennese secret police official.
The heirs of the painting's late owner, Marcel Koch, will receive "Port-en-Bessin" by neo-Impressionist Paul Signac at a ceremony this year, the orchestra said on Saturday, announcing the latest step to address its past association with Nazism.
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From Reuters:
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra will return to a French family a valuable painting that was looted by the Nazis and given to the orchestra as a gift in 1940 by a Viennese secret police official.
The heirs of the painting's late owner, Marcel Koch, will receive "Port-en-Bessin" by neo-Impressionist Paul Signac at a ceremony this year, the orchestra said on Saturday, announcing the latest step to address its past association with Nazism.
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Thursday, 10 April 2014
U.S. State Department Cautions Against Plans to Punish French Rail Company for Its Role in Holocaust-Era Deportations for Fear of Harming Reparation Talks
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From the Associated Press via ynetnews.com:
The Obama administration on Wednesday warned several state legislatures against initiatives that would punish the state-owned French railway company SNCF for carrying out Holocaust-era deportations to Nazi death and labor camps.
The State Department said such actions would jeopardize recently begun talks between the United States and France on compensation for SNCF deportation victims and their families.
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From the Associated Press via ynetnews.com:
The Obama administration on Wednesday warned several state legislatures against initiatives that would punish the state-owned French railway company SNCF for carrying out Holocaust-era deportations to Nazi death and labor camps.
The State Department said such actions would jeopardize recently begun talks between the United States and France on compensation for SNCF deportation victims and their families.
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German Store Mistakenly Orders and Sells Mugs Bearing Image of Adolf Hitler
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From the Associated Press via ynetnews.com:
A small German furniture store chain says it inadvertently ordered 5,000 coffee cups bearing a faint portrait of Adolf Hitler from China.
Christian Zurbrueggen, co-owner of the Zurbrueggen chain, told German news agency dpa on Thursday that 175 of the offending cups were sold before customers reported the problem.
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From the Associated Press via ynetnews.com:
A small German furniture store chain says it inadvertently ordered 5,000 coffee cups bearing a faint portrait of Adolf Hitler from China.
Christian Zurbrueggen, co-owner of the Zurbrueggen chain, told German news agency dpa on Thursday that 175 of the offending cups were sold before customers reported the problem.
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Israel Accuses Senior UN Official of Antisemitism and Calls for Her Dismissal
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From ynetnews.com:
Israel has requested the UN dismiss Rima Khalaf, currently serving as the UN's under-secretary-general, for anti-Semitic statements she made in an official report.
"The accusation that Israel is conducting ethnic cleansing is the essence of modern anti-Semitism and it is unforgivable," Israel's UN Ambassador Ron Prosor wrote to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon Wednesday, in wake of a report penned by Khalaf, a Jordanian national.
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From ynetnews.com:
Israel has requested the UN dismiss Rima Khalaf, currently serving as the UN's under-secretary-general, for anti-Semitic statements she made in an official report.
"The accusation that Israel is conducting ethnic cleansing is the essence of modern anti-Semitism and it is unforgivable," Israel's UN Ambassador Ron Prosor wrote to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon Wednesday, in wake of a report penned by Khalaf, a Jordanian national.
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Israeli Bus Driver Calls Holocaust Survivor a Nazi
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From ynetnews.com:
A 74-year-old Holocaust survivor was told he was Nazi because he spoke Dutch while traveling on a bus to Tel Aviv.
Martin Leeda moved to Israel after surviving three Nazi concentration camps. Today he divides his time between Israel and the Netherlands, where he works as a guide in the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, and is an active part of the Jewish community there.
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From ynetnews.com:
A 74-year-old Holocaust survivor was told he was Nazi because he spoke Dutch while traveling on a bus to Tel Aviv.
Martin Leeda moved to Israel after surviving three Nazi concentration camps. Today he divides his time between Israel and the Netherlands, where he works as a guide in the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, and is an active part of the Jewish community there.
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Former German Minister Condemns Behaviour of Museums For Not Investigating Possibility That Art in Their Possession Could Have Been Stolen by Nazis
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From Reuters:
A German pensioner's decision to let experts check his art trove for Nazi-looted treasures contrasts sharply with the approach of some museums that may hold works stolen from Holocaust victims, a former minister said on Tuesday.
Over 2,000 German museums hold works created before 1945 and acquired after the Nazis came to power in 1933, according to the Institute for Museum Research in Berlin. Some of them could have been looted or extorted from Jewish owners by the Nazis.
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From Reuters:
A German pensioner's decision to let experts check his art trove for Nazi-looted treasures contrasts sharply with the approach of some museums that may hold works stolen from Holocaust victims, a former minister said on Tuesday.
Over 2,000 German museums hold works created before 1945 and acquired after the Nazis came to power in 1933, according to the Institute for Museum Research in Berlin. Some of them could have been looted or extorted from Jewish owners by the Nazis.
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Protesters Occupy Site of Controversial Monument That They Say Whitewashes Hungarians' Role in the Holocaust
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From AFP via ynetnews.com:
Several hundred protesters blocked work on a controversial monument in Budapest Tuesday which Jewish critics say glosses over Hungary's active role in the Holocaust.
Around 300 people angrily tore down a cordon erected by workers and occupied the site of the planned monument, which the Hungarian government says will mark all the victims of Hungary's occupation by Nazi Germany in 1944.
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From AFP via ynetnews.com:
Several hundred protesters blocked work on a controversial monument in Budapest Tuesday which Jewish critics say glosses over Hungary's active role in the Holocaust.
Around 300 people angrily tore down a cordon erected by workers and occupied the site of the planned monument, which the Hungarian government says will mark all the victims of Hungary's occupation by Nazi Germany in 1944.
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Actress Says Antisemitism Behind Criticism She Received From Oxfam for Endorsement of Israeli Company Operating in the West Bank
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From ynetnews.com:
American Jewish actress Scarlett Johansson believes anti-Semitism is to blame for much of the fire she drew earlier this year over her endorsement of Israeli company SodaStream, which operates a factory in the West Bank.
"There's a lot of anti-Semitism out there," Johansson told Vanity Fair, in an interview for the cover of their May edition.
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From ynetnews.com:
American Jewish actress Scarlett Johansson believes anti-Semitism is to blame for much of the fire she drew earlier this year over her endorsement of Israeli company SodaStream, which operates a factory in the West Bank.
"There's a lot of anti-Semitism out there," Johansson told Vanity Fair, in an interview for the cover of their May edition.
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Tuesday, 8 April 2014
Germany Approves Proposal to Expand Pension Payments for Jewish Ghetto Workers
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From the Associated Press via ynetnews.com:
The German cabinet has approved a proposal that would give thousands of elderly Jews additional pension payments for work they were forced to do under the Nazis in ghettos.
The plan will see all payments backdated to 1997, when Germany began recognizing work in ghettos as eligible for pension payments. Until now, recipients have only received payments backdated four years from when they applied.
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From the Associated Press via ynetnews.com:
The German cabinet has approved a proposal that would give thousands of elderly Jews additional pension payments for work they were forced to do under the Nazis in ghettos.
The plan will see all payments backdated to 1997, when Germany began recognizing work in ghettos as eligible for pension payments. Until now, recipients have only received payments backdated four years from when they applied.
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Monday, 7 April 2014
Berlin's Jewish Community Experiencing a Rebirth
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From the Associated Press:
The epicenter of the Holocaust, the city where Hitler signed the death warrants of 6 million Jews, seems an unlikely candidate for the world's fastest growing Jewish community.
But despite this stigma of Nazism, Berlin's dynamic, prosperous present and its rich, pre-World War II Jewish past initially attracted an influx of Jews from the former Soviet Union. The community has kept growing with the arrival of thousands of Israelis and smaller numbers of often young immigrants from Australia, France, the United States and elsewhere.
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From the Associated Press:
The epicenter of the Holocaust, the city where Hitler signed the death warrants of 6 million Jews, seems an unlikely candidate for the world's fastest growing Jewish community.
But despite this stigma of Nazism, Berlin's dynamic, prosperous present and its rich, pre-World War II Jewish past initially attracted an influx of Jews from the former Soviet Union. The community has kept growing with the arrival of thousands of Israelis and smaller numbers of often young immigrants from Australia, France, the United States and elsewhere.
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Current Prime Minister of Turkey Used to Carry a Copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf With Him, Says Former Classmate
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From ynetnews.com:
Avraham Krispin from Tel Aviv, a former classmate of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, gets irritated every Wednesday evening at 8 pm when he sits in front of the television and watches the TRT channel, Turkey's national public broadcaster.
The channel, which is broadcast in Israel by the HOT cable company, airs a popular series called "Kizil Elma" ("Red Apple"), which contains anti-Semitic messages that remind Krispin of the most annoying boy in class – Recep.
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From ynetnews.com:
Avraham Krispin from Tel Aviv, a former classmate of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, gets irritated every Wednesday evening at 8 pm when he sits in front of the television and watches the TRT channel, Turkey's national public broadcaster.
The channel, which is broadcast in Israel by the HOT cable company, airs a popular series called "Kizil Elma" ("Red Apple"), which contains anti-Semitic messages that remind Krispin of the most annoying boy in class – Recep.
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Hungarian Far-Right Party Makes Gains in Recent Election
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From Reuters via ynetnews.com:
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has won another four years in power, election results showed on Monday, while one in five voters backed a far-right opposition party accused of anti-Semitism.
Orban has clashed repeatedly with the European Union and foreign investors over his unorthodox policies, and after Sunday's win, big businesses were bracing for another term of unpredictable and, for some of them, hostile measures.
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From Reuters via ynetnews.com:
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has won another four years in power, election results showed on Monday, while one in five voters backed a far-right opposition party accused of anti-Semitism.
Orban has clashed repeatedly with the European Union and foreign investors over his unorthodox policies, and after Sunday's win, big businesses were bracing for another term of unpredictable and, for some of them, hostile measures.
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Sunday, 6 April 2014
British Documentary Contends That Eva Braun May Have Been of Jewish Ancestry
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From ynetnews.com:
Hair samples said to have come from a hairbrush used by Hitler's long-term lover, Eva Braun, were tested by a BBC's documentary and discovered to share qualities with the Eastern European Jewish genome.
If true, Hitler, who eventually married Braun before their joint suicide, may have inadvertently married a woman of Semitic descent.
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From ynetnews.com:
Hair samples said to have come from a hairbrush used by Hitler's long-term lover, Eva Braun, were tested by a BBC's documentary and discovered to share qualities with the Eastern European Jewish genome.
If true, Hitler, who eventually married Braun before their joint suicide, may have inadvertently married a woman of Semitic descent.
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Russia to Ban Denial of Nazi Crimes During WWII
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From AFP via ynetnews.com:
Russian politicians have given initial approval to a bill forbidding "rehabilitation of Nazism" that will punish historians denying Nazi crimes during World War II but could also be used against the opposition.
The bill introduces a new criminal charge for "denying facts" established by the Nuremberg tribunal regarding the crimes of the Axis powers, as well as "disseminating false information about Soviet actions" during the war.
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From AFP via ynetnews.com:
Russian politicians have given initial approval to a bill forbidding "rehabilitation of Nazism" that will punish historians denying Nazi crimes during World War II but could also be used against the opposition.
The bill introduces a new criminal charge for "denying facts" established by the Nuremberg tribunal regarding the crimes of the Axis powers, as well as "disseminating false information about Soviet actions" during the war.
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Students at American University Search for Man Who Helped Jewish Family Escape Nazis
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From the Associated Press:
Students at a Connecticut university are working on a daunting assignment: Who was the suspected Nazi who protected a Jewish family 75 years ago from violence and warned them to flee Austria just before World War II broke out?
The University of New Haven students just have a first name and a few other clues but are scouring records from the 1930s, conducting interviews and may visit Austria to unravel the mystery on behalf of the elderly survivors who want to honor their savior.
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From the Associated Press:
Students at a Connecticut university are working on a daunting assignment: Who was the suspected Nazi who protected a Jewish family 75 years ago from violence and warned them to flee Austria just before World War II broke out?
The University of New Haven students just have a first name and a few other clues but are scouring records from the 1930s, conducting interviews and may visit Austria to unravel the mystery on behalf of the elderly survivors who want to honor their savior.
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Polish Men Party in Former Nazi Concentration Camp
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From ynetnews.com:
Three Polish men held a party at the Majdanek concentration and extermination camp last Saturday and posted the photos on Facebook.
The three men with shaved heads in their thirties snuck into the concentration camp by the city of Lublin in Poland, where the Nazis murdered some 200,000 people, including 80,000 Jews.
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From ynetnews.com:
Three Polish men held a party at the Majdanek concentration and extermination camp last Saturday and posted the photos on Facebook.
The three men with shaved heads in their thirties snuck into the concentration camp by the city of Lublin in Poland, where the Nazis murdered some 200,000 people, including 80,000 Jews.
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Friday, 4 April 2014
Leader of Major American Jewish Organization Warns of Continued Political Antisemitism in the U.S.
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From ynetnews.com:
Political anti-Semitism remains a threat in the US, a top Jewish-American leader said Thursday to a delegation of Knesset members visiting New York.
"We do polling in America. Thirty percent of the American people believe that Jews are more loyal to Israel than the United States. This is a political anti-Semitism," said Abe Foxman, the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League.
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From ynetnews.com:
Political anti-Semitism remains a threat in the US, a top Jewish-American leader said Thursday to a delegation of Knesset members visiting New York.
"We do polling in America. Thirty percent of the American people believe that Jews are more loyal to Israel than the United States. This is a political anti-Semitism," said Abe Foxman, the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League.
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Thursday, 3 April 2014
Polish Parliament Okays Kosher Slaughter for Jewish Community Consumption
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From ynetnews.com:
The European Jewish Congress (EJC) has welcomed the decision by Poland’s parliament to permit the continuation of shechita, Jewish kosher slaughter for meat, to meet the needs of the community.
"We are satisfied that the representatives of the Polish people have decided that the Jewish communities' religious freedom will not be harmed," said Dr. Moshe Kantor, president of the EJC. "We welcome the decision and hope that it will put an end to the attempts to curtail Jewish practices that meet the highest and most humane standards."
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From ynetnews.com:
The European Jewish Congress (EJC) has welcomed the decision by Poland’s parliament to permit the continuation of shechita, Jewish kosher slaughter for meat, to meet the needs of the community.
"We are satisfied that the representatives of the Polish people have decided that the Jewish communities' religious freedom will not be harmed," said Dr. Moshe Kantor, president of the EJC. "We welcome the decision and hope that it will put an end to the attempts to curtail Jewish practices that meet the highest and most humane standards."
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Wednesday, 2 April 2014
More Soccer Players in England Under Fire for "Quenelle" Salute
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From AFP via ynetnews.com:
Hull striker Yannick Sagbo and QPR loanee Benoit Assou-Ekotto were charged with improper conduct by England's Football Association on Tuesday for social media posts relating to the controversial "quenelle" gesture.
Meanwhile Manchester City's Samir Nasri and Liverpool's Mamadou Sakho both received warnings from the governing body for similar incidents.
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From AFP via ynetnews.com:
Hull striker Yannick Sagbo and QPR loanee Benoit Assou-Ekotto were charged with improper conduct by England's Football Association on Tuesday for social media posts relating to the controversial "quenelle" gesture.
Meanwhile Manchester City's Samir Nasri and Liverpool's Mamadou Sakho both received warnings from the governing body for similar incidents.
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Report Shows Significant Decline in Antisemitic Incidents in U.S., But Violent Incidences on the Rise
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From ynetnews.com:
The total number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States fell by 19% in 2013, continuing a decade-long downward slide and marking one of the lowest levels of incidents reported by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) since it started keeping records in 1979, the Jewish group said in a statement Tuesday.
ADL’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents reported a total of 751 incidents across the US during the 2013 calendar year, representing a 19% decline from the 927 incidents reported during the same period in 2012. In 2013, anti-Semitic incidents were reported in 41 states and the District of Columbia.
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From ynetnews.com:
The total number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States fell by 19% in 2013, continuing a decade-long downward slide and marking one of the lowest levels of incidents reported by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) since it started keeping records in 1979, the Jewish group said in a statement Tuesday.
ADL’s annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents reported a total of 751 incidents across the US during the 2013 calendar year, representing a 19% decline from the 927 incidents reported during the same period in 2012. In 2013, anti-Semitic incidents were reported in 41 states and the District of Columbia.
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Tuesday, 1 April 2014
Opera First Performed by Jewish Children in Nazi Concentration Camp to be Performed in Israel
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From ynetnews.com:
An emotionally moving opera, which was performed by the children of Theresienstadt in front of a Red Cross delegation which arrived at the Nazi concentration camp to look into the conditions of its Jewish prisoners, will be staged in Israel for the first time Wednesday by students of the Walworth Barbour American International School in Even Yehuda.
Two weeks after the Theresienstadt children staged the opera, they were sent to the death camp and executed.
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From ynetnews.com:
An emotionally moving opera, which was performed by the children of Theresienstadt in front of a Red Cross delegation which arrived at the Nazi concentration camp to look into the conditions of its Jewish prisoners, will be staged in Israel for the first time Wednesday by students of the Walworth Barbour American International School in Even Yehuda.
Two weeks after the Theresienstadt children staged the opera, they were sent to the death camp and executed.
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