Tag: Holocaust
Ben Kingsley playing Adolf Eichmann in film about Nazi’s capture by Israel
Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley is in Buenos Aires filming a Hollywood movie about the capture of Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents.
Kingsley, a British actor, is starring in “Operation Finale,” which chronicles the notorious...
Torah scroll that survived the Nazis returns home
But instead of a tattoo, this survivor has a paper tag bearing its handwritten identity hung around its body.
MST #740 is one of 1,564 Czech Torah scrolls that survived the Shoah and were brought...
YouTube condemned for failing to take down videos praising Hitler
Online video giant YouTube has been condemned for failing to take down extremist content including films praising Adolf Hitler and Taliban propaganda.
An extensive study of Islamist and far-right extremist material shared on the website...
Mel Brooks: ‘Gas chambers’ off limits for comedy
Veteran Hollywood comedian Mel Brooks has said he can find comedy in almost everything, but that he would never use “gas chambers” or the death of the Jews in the Second World War for...
Holocaust museum pulls study absolving Obama administration for inaction in face of Syrian genocide
A major United States Holocaust Memorial Museum study of the Obama Administration’s Syria policy was put on hold last night after portions of the study given to Tablet were greeted with shock and harsh criticism by...
Polish-born MP accepts honour for relative who saved Jews during the Holocaust
A Polish-born MP received an award in Warsaw on Monday in honour of his great-uncle who sheltered seven Jewish families during the Holocaust before being discovered and killed.
Daniel Kawczynski, the MP for Shrewsbury and...
Europe’s destructive Holocaust shame
When I first heard about Catherine Nay—a prominent, mainstream, French journalist—stating on her Europe1 news program, in reference to the 2000 IDF killing of 12-year-old Muhammad al Durah in the arms of his father,...
Billy Joel wears yellow Star of David at New York show amid rising Neo-Nazi...
Billy Joel made a strong statement against the growing neo-Nazi and white nationalism movement on Monday night, taking the stage at New York’s Madison Square Garden wearing a yellow Star of David.
The 68-year-old hitmaker, who...
The day Nazis took Warsaw Ghetto jews to Treblinka extermination camp
JULY 22, 1942, dawned hot and muggy in the Warsaw Ghetto. Two years earlier the Nazis had forced the Jewish population of German-occupied Poland into an area occupying just 1.3 square miles surrounded by...
The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery, by Captain Witold Pilecki
A new book, “The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery ” (Aquila Polonica: 2012), documents, in his own words, Pilecki’s remarkable exploits, and I can’t think of a better gift to give yourself for Khanukah.
Pilecki was...