Tag: Concentration Camps
Israeli, German, EU Council presidents issue statement commemorating Holocaust
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and European Council President Charles Michel issued a joint statement on Tuesday affirming their commitment to preserving the memory of the Holocaust and fighting anti-Semitism.
In addition...
Anti-Semitic hackers infiltrate Jewish high school website, exposing personal information
An anti-Semitic cybersecurity attack that took place at a Jewish high school in Long Island, N.Y., on Monday has left students on edge and parents contemplating if they should keep their children at home...
US Department of Justice denies deportation appeal of former German Nazi guard
A man who served as a Nazi concentration-camp guard has lost his appeal to halt his deportation, announced the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday.
Friedrich Karl Berger, a German citizen, was ordered removed from...
Celebrity chef Alton Brown apologizes for Holocaust joke
Alton Brown, an American television personality and chef, apologized on Wednesday for tweeting a joke about the Holocaust.
After issuing a series of since-deleted tweets speaking out against U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, Brown tweeted,...
Jimmy Weldon, a liberator of Buchenwald, has a lot to say on life
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...
Facing aging and COVID, Jewish veterans stay the course, as they did during wartime
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...
German court convicts 93-year-old SS guard
A German court convicted a 93-year-old former concentration-camp guard on Thursday on 5,232 counts of accessory to murder.
Bruno Dey, who served as a guard at the Stuthoff concentration camp during the final months of World...
Germany charges Nazi concentration-camp guard, 95, with war crimes
A German court announced on Monday that a 95-year-old former Nazi concentration-camp guard was charged with war crimes during the Holocaust.
The suspect was a guard at the Stutthof concentration camp in a wooded area near Danzig...
Facebook removes Trump campaign ads, including one with Nazi prisoner symbol
Facebook removed Trump campaign ads on Thursday that targeted the far-left Antifa movement, including one with an downward-pointing red triangle that apparently resembled a Nazi designation symbol for political prisoners in concentration camps.
Facebook removed the ads...
Bills pass on anti-Semitism envoy, assistance to Israel, marking Dachau liberation
The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed bills on Thursday benefiting the Jewish and pro-Israel community, and instilling a resolution to remember the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in April 1945.
One bill would...