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Robert Clary as Lebeau and Cynthia Lynn as Fräulein Helga from the television program "Hogan's Heroes," 1965. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Robert Clary, ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ star and Holocaust survivor, dies at 96

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Robert Clary, a Holocaust survivor best known as the French actor who starred in the CBS-TV series “Hogan’s Heroes,” died at his home in Los Angeles on Nov. 15 at age 96. Family members did not provide...
Entrance to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Credit: Chiode via Wikimedia Commons.

Neo-Nazi who performed Hitler salute at Buchenwald goes on trial

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A neo-Nazi in the United Kingdom is on trial for allegedly being part of a banned extremist group performed a Hitler salute in the Buchenwald concentration camp, reported The Jewish Chronicle. Alex Davies, 27, “went on...
Jimmy Weldon. Source: Screenshot.

Jimmy Weldon, a liberator of Buchenwald, has a lot to say on life

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Jimmy Weldon, 97, is a voice actor and ventriloquist known for portraying Yakky Doodle and other Hanna-Barbera characters on “The Yogi Bear Show.” He was also once a soldier. Serving with the combat engineers...
From left: Jewish War Veterans Chief of Staff Robert Nussbaum, Maj. Gen. of the Minnesota National Guard Shawn Menke, JWV National Commander Jeffrey Sacks and Department Commander of Wisconsin Kim Queen. Credit: Courtesy of Jewish War Veterans.

Facing aging and COVID, Jewish veterans stay the course, as they did during wartime

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When they were young, some stormed the beaches, taking the fight to the enemy; some liberated Nazi concentration camps in Western Europe and forever bear the scars of having witnessed man’s worst inhumanity to...
Part of the barbed wire surrounding the former Buchenwald camp. Credit: Lars K Jensen/Flickr.

Amid scathing response, plans for sausage museum at site of Buchenwald canceled

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Amid an intense backlash, plans to construct a sausage museum at the site of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald, near Weimar, Germany, have apparently been cancelled. A group called Friends of the Thuringer Bratwurst had released...
Part of the barbed wire surrounding the former Buchenwald camp. Credit: Lars K Jensen/Flickr.

Outrage ensues over sausage-museum, hotel and theater plans at site of Buchenwald

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Plans to build a sausage museum at the site of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald has prompted outrage over Germany’s apparent “lack of historical awareness.” A group called Friends of the Thuringer Bratwurst had...