Tag: Concentration Camps
Former concentration-camp guard stands trial in Germany
A former concentration-camp guard is facing trial in Germany in what may be one of the country’s last trials of Nazi war criminals.
The 93-year-old, known as “Bruno D.,” is accused of aiding and abetting...
Wikipedia’s ‘longest-running hoax’ about fake Warsaw death camp revealed
Wikipedia had an entry for more than 15 years on its English-language website about a death camp in Warsaw during the years of the Holocaust that did not exist in real life, Haaretz reported on Friday.
The entry...
Cousins separated as a result of World War II reunite 75 years later in...
Two cousins who were separated 75 years ago by World War II reunited in Israel on Saturday.
Morris Sana, 87, and his cousin Simon Mairowitz, 85, grew up believing that the other died in a...
Austria’s oldest Holocaust survivor dies at 106
Austria’s oldest Holocaust survivor died on Thursday at the age of 106, announced Vienna’s Jewish Community organization, or IKG, on Friday.
Marko Feingold was born in 1913 in present-day Slovakia and was arrested in Prague...
SS guard, 92, to go on trial in Germany for Nazi crimes
A 92-year-old former SS guard charged with helping murder 5,230 prisoners at a Nazi death camp in World War II will go on trial in October, prosecutors said on Thursday.
Bruno Dey, whose full name will...
At annual CUFI conference, Pence warns Iran, rebukes border-security language
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Monday warned Iran that the United States is prepared to defend itself, in addition to criticizing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for comparing migrant detention centers on the U.S....
Virginia state legislature candidate removes Facebook concentration-camp ‘joke’
A Republican candidate for Virginia’s state legislature removed a meme from his personal Facebook page that mocked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) comparison of U.S. migrant detention facilities to concentration camps.
Paul Milde, running to be...
Holocaust survivor calls for Ocasio-Cortez to be removed from Congress for comments
Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg accused U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Saturday of “spreading anti-Semitism, hatred and stupidity” and called for her to be ousted from Congress.
“She should be removed from Congress. She’s spreading...
Ocasio-Cortez rejects Auschwitz tour with Holocaust survivor
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) rejected an invitation on Sunday to tour Auschwitz with a Holocaust survivor.
The organization From the Depths, whose president, 93-year-old Edward Mosberg, is a Holocaust survivor, invited her to see...
Ocasio-Cortez invited by Polish parliament member to tour concentration camps
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has been invited by a member of the Polish parliament to visit concentration camps in Poland that were used during World War II and the Holocaust.
This comes after the...