Tag: Concentration Camps
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...
Emotionally, KISS frontman Simmons discovers mother’s past during Holocaust
Rock legend and KISS frontman Gene Simmons got teary-eyed when reading over historical documents about his late Jewish mother’s experiences in the Holocaust and liberation from the Mauthausen concentration camp during a recent interview with Bild.
Simmons’s...
Sign with Auschwitz slogan displayed at Chicago protest against stay-at-home orders
A sign playing off the Auschwitz slogan “work sets you free” was featured at a protest in Chicago where hundreds of demonstrators railed against state and local restrictions imposed in response to the coronavirus...
Minnesota high-schoolers apologize for TikTok video mocking Auschwitz
Two high school students in Minnesota apologized for posting a clip on the popular video-sharing app that pokes fun at Jews who were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
In the TikTok video titled “Me...