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Fast Forward Former Nazi Camp Guard Charged As Accessory To Murder
(JTA) — A former guard at the Majdanek Nazi death camp has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder. The Frankfurt resident, 96, whose name has not been released due to the country’s privacy laws, was charged by the city prosecutor on Friday for being an accessory to murder during his service…
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Life I’m A Child Of A Holocaust Survivor. Halloween Horrifies Me.
I hate Halloween, though I’m unlikely to mention it to you in person. Let me explain why. My Dad is a Holocaust survivor. He was born just as the war was ending, and he spent the first several years of his life in a rat infested refugee camp in Austria. His parents had spent the…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Chinese Blogger Weeps In Meeting With Holocaust Survivor
An influential Chinese blogger wept as he met with Holocaust survivor and author Solomon Perel, Ynet News reported. Yan Jingsheng has millions of followers on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, and Perel is author of the book “Europa, Europa.” The two met when Perel gave a talk to a delegation of Chinese bloggers in Israel…
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Fast Forward Scaramucci Post Tweets About Jews And The Holocaust — Again
Just days after posting what many saw as an offensive tweet about the number of Jews who perished in the Holocaust, the Twitter account of Scaramucci Post is again tweeting about Jews and genocide. “How many Jews were alive in 1939?” the Twitter account posted. Before we move on we will spend the next half…
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Forverts in English Simchat Torah Ball for Holocaust Survivors – 1949
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. In today’s trip to the past, we examine an invitation to a party – a Jewish Holiday Party. I found this fascinating poster in the YIVO digital collection of POSTERS FROM DISPLACED PERSONS CAMPS, which are on display at the website of the American Center of Jewish…
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Fast Forward The Mooch’s Holocaust-Questioning Twitter Poll Cost Him A Gig
Anthony Scaramucci’s infamous Holocaust poll cost him a speaking gig, Page Six reported. The extremely short-lived director of communications for the White House apologized Wednesday after his media venture Scaramucci Post put a poll on Twitter asking users how many people died in the Holocaust. Scaramucci pledged to give $25,000 to the Simon Wiesenthal Center…
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Fast Forward Dutch Soccer Fans Mock Child Holocaust Victims
AMSTERDAM (JTA) – Soccer fans in the Netherlands used a picture of child victims of the Holocaust to taunt a rival team, in what Dutch activists against racism called a new low for anti-Semitic rhetoric in sports. The photo featuring two toddlers wearing a yellow star was widely circulated on Twitter under the hashtag #anti020week….
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Community 3 Stalwart Acts Of Faith Saved My Family From The Holocaust
I was born in Leipzig, Germany, on May 31, 1939. I am a third-generation German. My father was born in Poland and immigrated to Germany as a 13-year-old boy to serve as an apprentice cap maker. After Hitler rose to power in 1933, things started to get bad. After the Nuremberg Laws were enacted, my…
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