Tag: Holocaust
European Council adopts measures to tackle racism, anti-Semitism
The European Council recently announced measures it will adopt to combat racism and anti-Semitism, which include urging social-media companies to remove racist and anti-Semitic hate speech and adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism.
These...
IDF to end Holocaust delegations to Poland, chooses Lithuania instead
In a decision that could undermine already strained relations with Warsaw, the Israel Defense Forces will no longer send delegations to Poland to learn about the Holocaust. Instead, officer delegations will visit Lithuania, in...
Bennett, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visit Yad Vashem
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at Yad Vashem on Wednesday, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.
Sholz was in Israel for his first official visit since taking...
Prized painting sold to Amsterdam museum during WWII returned to Jewish heirs
A valuable Wassily Kandinsky painting sold to Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum during World War II was returned to the heirs of the Jewish owners.
“Today the painting… has been transferred to the heirs of the Jewish...
Roman Abramovich commits more than $10 million to support Israel’s Holocaust museum
Roman Abramovich made a more than $10 million pledge to Yad Vashem earlier this week to support efforts in the realm of Holocaust research and remembrance.
The pledged funding will go toward enriching Yad Vashem’s...
Montreal Holocaust Museum initiates $80 million project to relocate to Jewish Quarter
The Montreal Holocaust Museum has undertaken an $80 million project to relocate into a new space in the city’s historic Jewish community.
The building on Saint-Laurent Boulevard in Le Plateau-Mont-Royal will feature interactive holograms of Holocaust survivors...
Latvia’s parliament passes $45 million Holocaust-restitution bill
Latvia’s parliament passed a bill that will provide compensation for unrecovered Jewish property and funding for the country’s Jewish community, reported The Associated Press.
The Law on the Compensation of Goodwill to the Latvian Jewish Community...
Keshet Studios, Disney to produce series on woman who sheltered Anne Frank
Keshet Studios will produce a limited series for Disney+ about Miep Gies, the Dutch woman who sheltered Anne Frank and her family during World War II.
“A Small Light” will be told from the perspective...
Holocaust survivors up in arms over planned auction of Nazi memorabilia
Holocaust survivors and those involved in efforts to maintain the memory of the Shoah are up in arms over plans to put some 20 Nazi artifacts up for auction next week.
Among the artifacts to...
Tennessee Jewish group slams school-board’s decision to ban Holocaust book ‘Maus’
The Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga in Tennessee is criticizing a local school board’s decision to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust book from its eighth-grade curriculum.
The federation’s executive director, Michael Dzik, spoke about the...