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President of Tunisia Kais Saied. Credit: Houcemmzoughi via Wikimedia Commons.

Days after two Jews shot dead, Tunisian president compares Israel to Nazis

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Two Jewish cousins were among those murdered on May 9 near a Tunisian synagogue. Four days later, Tunisian President Kais Saied compared the Jewish state to Nazi Germany. “While Tunisians protected Jews during the Holocaust, today elderly,...
Detail of "Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Therese Karl)" (1890) by Fritz von Uhde. Credit: Städel museum, Frankfurt.

Frankfurt returns painting to heirs of Jewish collector murdered in the Holocaust

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Fritz von Uhde’s painting “Portray of a Lady” will be restituted to the heirs of Jewish collector Gustav Rüdenberg, according to an agreement with the Städel museum in Frankfurt, Germany, which the New York...
“A Small Light,” produced by ABC Signature and Keshet Studios for National Geographic, will stream on Disney+ and Hulu. Credit: Courtesy.

Miep Gies and the quest for a lasting Holocaust lesson

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There is something about the story of the eight Jews who spent more than two years hiding in the secret annex on Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam that is irresistible to readers, as well as...
Stone in memory of Jonas Noreika, Šukioniai, Pakruojis district in Lithuania. Credit: Vilensija via Wikimedia Commons.

Jewish students protest Lithuania’s glorification of Nazi collaborator

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More than 100 students and teachers from the Rambam Mesivta High School in Lawrence, N.Y., protested outside New York City’s Lithuanian Consulate in mid-March. Their signs proclaimed “No Honor for Noreika” and “Noreika—Is He...
Zachary Mazur, a senior historian at the Warsaw-based POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Photo by Michał Wilczewski, Northwestern University.

Misconceptions about Warsaw Ghetto Uprising abound, says historian Zachary Mazur

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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was not the only example of armed Jewish resistance against the Nazis during the Holocaust. A very small percentage of ghetto prisoners fought, and the revolt occurred late in the...
Robert Russell Lamb Model 107, 2022. Credit: Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles.

Artist depicts disarmingly beautiful Holocaust art

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At first blush, the recent, photorealistic paintings of Los Angeles-based Jewish artist Robert Russell look inviting, almost sweet. A lamb turns its head to look back over its shoulder in one, and in another, a crouching...
The children's board game "Juden Raus!" Courtesy.

Nazi children’s board game ‘Jews out!’ on display in new exhibit

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A new exhibit at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust at Tel Aviv University features the Nazi-era children’s board game Juden Raus!, or “Jews out!” The exhibit comes on the...
Anne Frank. Credit: Anne Frank House.

Anne Frank traveling exhibit on Holocaust, human rights, bigotry comes to Midwest

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“Anne Frank: A History for Today,” developed by the Anne Frank House, will be open to the public at the Putnam Museum and Science Center in Davenport, Iowa, from Sept. 2 to Oct. 30....
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, Aug. 18, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Abbas’s trivialization of Holocaust spurs inquiry by Berlin police

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Berlin police opened a preliminary inquiry into whether Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas broke German laws against incitement of hatred when he claimed Israel had committed “50 Holocausts.” Abbas’s statements, made during a press conference with German Chancellor...
Olaf Scholz. Source: Olaf Scholz/Facebook.

Abbas tells Germany leader Israel committed ‘Holocausts’ against Palestinians

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Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas expressed no regrets on Tuesday for the murderous attack by Palestinian terrorists on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics half a century ago. He also claimed that Israel had committed...