Tag: Holocaust
Owner of controversial Nazi tattoo kit to donate it to Holocaust museum
The anonymous owner of a tattoo kit said to have been used on prisoners in the Auschwitz death camp informed an Israeli court on Thursday that he plans to donate it to the Haifa...
Polish heroism during World War II
After the fall of Poland at the start of World War II, some Polish diplomatic offices in other countries remained open. In Bern, Switzerland, ambassador Aleksander Ładoś and his two principal aides, Stefan Ryniewicz...
Murderer of Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll sentenced to life
A French court on Wednesday sentenced Yacine Mihoub to life in prison, with no possibility of parole for 22 years, for the 2018 murder of Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll. A second man, Alexander Carrimbacus,...
On 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht, Austria dedicates new memorial to murdered Jews
On the 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht and in a clear gesture that it is finally taking public responsibility for its past, the government of Austria unveiled the Shoah Wall of Names Memorial, its first...
A Holocaust survivor’s visit to her childhood home transports her to the past
Standing in the foyer of her childhood home at Reilstraße 18 in Halle, Germany, nonagenarian Eve Kugler recalled fleeing her hometown soon after Kristallnacht when she was a young girl. Now, 83 years later,...
‘I understand Israeli skepticism over a nuclear agreement with Iran’
Alexander Schallenberg never imagined himself becoming chancellor of Austria. A lawyer by training, he was born in Switzerland to an aristocratic family and raised in India, Spain and France, where his father served as...
Israeli court halts auction of ‘Auschwitz tattoo kits’
The Tel Aviv District Court suspended on Wednesday the auction of needle dies supposedly used on inmates of the Auschwitz death camp, after Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors expressed outrage at the sale.
According to Tzolman’s Auction...
Jewish leaders, Holocaust survivors livid over auction of Nazi prisoner stamps
Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors expressed outrage Monday after an auction house in Jerusalem offered for sale a set of needle stamps used by Nazis during World War II to tattoo numbers on the...
March of the Living UK focuses on nuance as it brings delegation to Germany...
GERMANY—The two provocateurs who approached the group at the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany at the end of October knew what they were doing. What they probably didn’t realize was that they helped cement...
Archbishop of Canterbury apologizes for comparing climate to Nazi Germany
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby apologized on Monday for comparing climate change to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust during the 26th U.N. Climate Change Convention (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland.
On Twitter, he posted: “I...