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Fast Forward Teachers Respond To Nazi Salute Prom Photo By Donating To Auschwitz Museum
Teachers at a Wisconsin high school are selling T-shirts to raise money for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in response to a viral photo of their students posing for a prom photo with a Nazi salute, the Baraboo News Republic reported. Members of the teachers’ union at Baraboo High School decided to make a donation…
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Fast Forward GOP Rep. Met With Nazi-Linked Group On Trip Funded By Holocaust Memorial Org
Rep. Steve King had an interview with members of a far-right Austrian party with Nazi ties, while on a trip funded by a Holocaust memorial group, The Washington Post reported Thursday. The Iowa Republican also criticized billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros in his interview, while lamenting that white Europeans will be replaced by immigrants….
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Fast Forward Israeli Teen Who Urinated On Memorial At Auschwitz Ordered To Pay $1,350
(JTA) — An Israeli teen who was caught urinating on a memorial commemorating the victims of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp has been ordered to pay a fine. The Israeli man, 19, in March urinated on a monument located near the ruins of the crematoria in the former Birkenau camp. The museum’s guide saw and…
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Fast Forward Chelsea Soccer Club To Take Anti-Semitic Chanters On Tour Auschwitz
(JTA) — Chelsea, the British soccer club, is planning to send fans who are caught chanting anti-Semitic songs on a tour of the former death camp of Auschwitz instead of punishing them. The team’s owner, Roman Abramovich, who is Jewish, has spearheaded a new initiative to combat anti-Semitism, according to the report about he plan…
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Fast Forward Minneapolis Holocaust Survivor Reclaims His German Citizenship
At 85 years old, a Holocaust survivor living in Minneapolis became a German citizen. Fred Amram described the re-naturalization ceremony September 25 at the Germanic-American Institute in St. Paul as “bittersweet.” Born in Nazi Germany in 1933, Amram was stripped of his citizenship at 2 years old, when the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws were enacted, the…
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Fast Forward German Bookstore Trivializes Holocaust With ‘Abortion Will Set You Free’ Display
(JTA) – A Cologne politician has filed a lawsuit against a local Christian bookstore over a window display that compares abortion with the Holocaust. Specifically, the shop window of the Marienbuchhandlung book store features a photo of a cemetery in Wiesbaden under the title, “kindermord.org,” or “child-killer.org,” followed by “Abtreiben macht frei,” which translates to…
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Opinion The Real Reason People Compare Israel To The Nazis | Excerpt
The following is an excerpt from Yoram Hazony’s new book, “The Virtue of Nationalism.” I have always been troubled by the prospect that a nation such as Britain, which has so often been a light to others in politics, philosophy, and science, should some day soon step down from the stage of world history forever….
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Survivor Laments Holocaust Denier’s Run For Congress In Her District
An Auschwitz survivor can’t believe a Arthur Jones, a Holocaust denier, is running to represent her district in Congress, the Chicago Tribune reported. Stasia Dorna was fourteen when she was transported to Auschwitz. She remembers the sour soup, the icy barracks and her friend who was badly beaten for sneaking a bite of potato. Dorna…
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