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News EXCLUSIVE: Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. warns that Jews should never take their safety for granted
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel’s new ambassador to the U.S. warned of rising antisemitism and the costs of widespread ignorance about the Holocaust. ‘When we say ‘never again,’ it is not only that we don’t want such a horrendous phenomenon to recur. But it is the acknowledgment that something similar to that may recur,”…
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Fast Forward In Germany, Knesset speaker gifts German-American Holocaust survivor her family tree
Israel’s Knesset speaker honored a German-American Holocaust survivor in Berlin Wednesday with an unusual present during commemorations for International Holocaust Remembrance Day: her paternal family tree, dating back to 1660. Inge Auerbacher, 87, who was deported with her parents when she was seven from Germany to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, met with Speaker…
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Moldova
Octavian Goga, who enacted laws stripping a third of Romania's Jews of citizenship, has a bust in Chisinau
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Italy
Rudolfo Graziani, known as the Butcher of Fezzan and the Butcher of Ethiopia, has a children's park named after him
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in India
While Subhas Chandra Bose is seen by some as a freedom fighter, his alliance with Hitler and the Waffen-SS cannot be ignored
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Austria
Multiple honors for Ferdinand Porsche and his son, Ferry
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Fast Forward A complete list of every time RFK Jr. has compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust
The presidential candidate has a troubling history of comparing vaccine and mask mandates to the Shoah
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Culture Enough with the insincere apologies for antisemitism — and enough with the Holocaust comparisons that inspire them
Yet another set of public figures have compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust, an ever-growing club that never fails to draw ire and condemnations from prominent rabbis, Holocaust museums and just about every Jew on Twitter. Inevitably, the apologies came shortly thereafter. “It is never okay to compare anything to the evil of Nazi Germany….
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