Tag: Holocaust Victims
October 9, 1981: Mermelstein Vs. Holocaust Denial
Mel Mermelstein, a Czech-born survivor of Auschwitz, was successful in his suit against the Institute for Historical Review (IHR), a Holocaust-denial outfit, in Los Angeles Superior Court on this date in 1981. The year...
Study: A quarter of Jews murdered in Holocaust killed in 100 days in 1942,...
Almost a quarter of the Jews killed in the Holocaust were murdered during 100 days in 1942, making it the time frame with the highest killing pace in the 20th century, according to a new...
World Jewish Congress holds memorial for Holocaust survivor murdered in Paris
NEW YORK – The World Jewish Congress held a memorial last week for Mireille Knoll, the Holocaust survivor murdered in Paris, at its headquarters in New York in the presence of French Consul General Anne-Claire...
Slovakia commemorated Holocaust Victims and Racial Hatred Day
On September 8, one day before Holocaust Victims and Racial Hatred Day, the Prime Minister laid wreathes at the Holocaust Victims Memorial at Rybné Square in Bratislava – where a Neological (i.e. Reformed Judaism)...
Romanian Nazi victims now eligible for German compensation
About 1,000 living survivors of Nazi persecution in Romania are now eligible for compensation from the German government, an organization that negotiates with Germany on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis, said...