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Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. Photo by Menachem Wecker.

Rome event to address Vatican’s ‘historical, theological controversies’ during the Holocaust

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Historians and theologians will gather in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University from Oct. 9 to Oct. 11 to discuss the meaning of documents about the Vatican’s activities during the Holocaust, which the pope...
A memorial at Babi Yar in Ukraine, the site of a September 1941 massacre carried out by German forces and Ukrainian collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. Credit: Meunierd/Shutterstock.

The dark legacy of Babi Yar

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The English word “holocaust” is borrowed from the Latin word holocaustum, used in the Latin translation of the Bible. This word is based in turn on a Greek word that means “burned whole” or “burnt...
St. Peters Basilica in Vatican City, Rome, on Aug. 17, 2016. Credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Vatican beatifies Polish family killed for protecting Jews during the Holocaust

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On Sept. 13, 1995, Yad Vashem recognized Józef and Wiktoria Ulma—a Polish couple who hid eight Jews during the Holocaust—as among the Righteous Among the Nations. Now, the Vatican has beatified the Ulmas, as well...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, 2017. Credit: Golden Brown/Shutterstock.

Abbas: Hitler fought Jews for their ‘usury and money’

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Adolf Hitler “fought the Jews” due to their “dealing with usury and money.” That’s a claim that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas made in an Aug. 24 speech, per a recent translation from the Middle East...
Dutch Jews at the Mauthausen concentration camp, June 26, 1941. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Jewish resistance hero identified 80 years after execution by Nazis

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Dutch forensic investigators have identified the remains of a man executed by the Nazis in the Netherlands eight decades ago as that of a Jewish resistance hero after locating a cousin in Australia, investigators...
Avshi Weinstein. Credit: Courtesy.

Holocaust-memory program centers on World War II-era musical instruments

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After World War II, Palestine Symphony Orchestra musicians who wanted nothing to do with their German-made instruments offered Moshe Weinstein an ultimatum. Weinstein had trained as a violinist and violin maker in Vilnius, then part...
Palestinians outside the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus, on May 8, 2023. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

The distorted ‘nakba’ narrative

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Israeli Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli is an angry man. Chikli, who has a history of being outspoken, has lately turned his sights on the German government. He has complained about inappropriate comparisons between the...
Miriam Sternberg Wechsler. Credit: Courtesy of the National Library of Israel.

‘Exodus’ immigrant’s diary shows hardships of post-Shoah refugees

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Dozens of personal diaries from people living through the early years of the Jewish state have been handed over to the National Library of Israel as part of the Operation Diary project. One presented recently...
American actress Roseanne Barr speaks during a conference in Jerusalem on January 27, 2019. Photo: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90

Roseanne, speak the truth about the Holocaust

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The media is reporting that my friend Roseanne Barr said on a podcast that no Jews died in the Holocaust. I have not talked with Roseanne. I find it hard to believe that someone who...
Andrzej Kumor, publisher of the Polish language Canadian newspaper "Goniec," which has often published antisemitic content. Credit: YouTube screen capture.

Polish-language, Canadian newspaper ‘doubles down’ on antisemitism

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The Ontario-based, Polish language newspaper Goniec has “doubled down on antisemitism,” per a B’nai B’rith Canada investigation. The paper “regularly engages in Holocaust distortion by using language such as the ‘Holocaust Enterprise’ to describe attempts by Jewish groups...