Tag: Holocaust
‘Oldest nun’ who helped save Jews in WWII dies aged 110
A nun believed to have been the oldest in the world has died at the age of 110.
Sister Cecylia Maria Roszak was born in Poland on March 25, 1908, and entered a cloistered convent...
Putin plays with the Holocaust
Back in January, the unlikely figure of Paddington Bear—the cuddly, bright-eyed cub much adored by young children down the years—ran afoul of the Russian government. As part of its policy of limiting the influence...
Canadian premier apologizes for nation’s failure to save German Jews on ‘St. Louis’
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau officially apologized for his country’s 1939 refusal to allow entry to a ship carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi oppression.
Trudeau made the statement at the House of...
Malaysian premier describes Jews as ‘hook-nosed,’ challenges 6 million murdered in Holocaust
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad described Jews as “hook-nosed” and blamed Israel for creating the troubles in the Middle East, in an interview with BBC’s HardTalk.
In the interview, widely reported by the British media,...
Pope Francis takes part in ceremony commemorating the liquidation of Vilnius Ghetto
Pope Francis took part in a commemoration ceremony marking 75 years since the liquidation of the Vilnius Ghetto.
The pontiff’s visit to Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, was part of his tour of the Baltic countries....
Miguel Giner, the Spaniard who flouted Franco’s laws to save hundreds of Jews from...
Vicente Giner (Altea, 1930) was 13 years old when that group of fifteen or twenty Polish Jews arrived at his house in Les, in Lleida, during the Second World War. "I remember everything perfectly...
‘To Bear Witness’: Florida college student’s inaugural photo exhibit illustrates starkness of Poland
Avi Davidson, a student at the University of South Florida in Tampa, overcame injuries that left him in a wheelchair and cost him his arm to open his first photo exhibition on campus on...
Lithuania admits its citizens participated in murder of Jews during the Holocaust
The government of Lithuania has official accepted responsibility for the mass murders of Jews Lithuanian citizens carried out during the Holocaust, according to a document obtained by Israel Hayom.
The document states that 95 percent...
Jewish ruins of the Rhine
In recent months, the Rhine city of Mainz captured worldwide headlines for the murder and rape of one of its Jewish members, 14-year-old Susanna Feldmann, allegedly at the hands of an Iraqi asylum-seeker, now in...
Historians accuse Croatia of covering up World War II crimes
Croatia’s parliament passed legislation last month barring public access to archive materials on individuals aged 100 and over, living and deceased. Critics say the legislation, which was presented to lawmakers in Zagreb as aimed...