Toby Axelrod
By Toby Axelrod
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Fast Forward Berlin film festival bars far-right party criticized by Jews from opening event
The Alternative for Germany party has come under scrutiny amid revelations about a secret meeting involving neo-Nazis
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Fast Forward Grandson of Munich massacre victim assaulted in Berlin; family says attack was motivated by hate
“We are deeply horrified by the brutal, allegedly anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish student at our university and condemn the act in the strongest possible terms,” the Free University said in a statement
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Fast Forward Holocaust and Srebrenica survivors launch Jewish-Muslim effort to prevent genocides
Attendees said they hoped the United Nations would declare July 11 as a memorial of the Srebrenica massacre, much like it created International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Fast Forward Number of living Holocaust survivors is about 245,000, according to new analysis
The oldest known survivor is Rose Girone, 112, of Queens, New York. Her family escaped Germany in 1938 and lived out the war in Shanghai
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Fast Forward German protesters say meeting by far-right extremists echoed the Nazis’ notorious Wannsee conference
Prominent neo-Nazis attended a meeting to discuss plans to deport foreigners not far from the villa where Nazi leaders devised a plan to deport and then murder Europe’s Jews
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Fast Forward Berlin police investigating vandalism of Kindertransport memorial following pro-Palestinian demonstrations
The site is a tribute to the roughly 10,000 German Jewish children sent to England in 1938 and 1939, many of whom never saw their parents again
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News Dortmund’s only Jewish mayor died in poverty after a successful career. The German city is reviving his story.
Paul Hirsch helped establish the formal borders of Berlin and Dortmund before the Nazis came to power, but his story is not widely known
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Fast Forward Berlin drops Mahmoud Abbas’ Holocaust hate speech case due to diplomatic immunity
The Palestinian Authority president had accused Israel of committing “50 Holocausts,” a statement that left him vulnerable to charges in a country that strictly punishes Holocaust relativism
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