Tag: Nazi Germany
Macron commemorates 80th year of mass arrest of French Jews during Holocaust
French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the dangers of anti-Semitism as part of an 80th commemoration ceremony of a mass arrest and roundup of Jews in Paris that took place during the years of World...
California State University, Fresno, removes name of Nazi sympathizer from library
The California State University board of trustees has voted to remove the name of a Nazi sympathizer from the Fresno State campus library.
The Henry Madden Library will now be referred to as the Fresno State Library...
Mass graves of 8,000 Nazi victims from World War II found in Polish forest
Two mass graves containing the ashes of at least 8,000 Poles killed by the Nazis during World War II were recently discovered in a forest in Poland by archeologists and anthropologists from the Institute...
German president honors Holocaust survivor with lifetime achievement award
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier awarded Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer with the country’s Walther Rathenau Prize for outstanding lifetime achievement in foreign policy, reported Deutsche Welle.
Born and raised in Berlin, Friedländer, 100, was the sole member...
Simon Wiesenthal Center grants Pope Francis 1919 anti-Semitic letter by Hitler
A 30-member Simon Wiesenthal Center international delegation met with Pope Francis on Wednesday to present a facsimile of an original four-page 1919 document authored and signed by Adolf Hitler, in which he openly espouses the destruction of...
Oldest concentration-camp survivor dies at age 108
The oldest known survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, Boris Pahor, died on Monday in the Italian city of Trieste at the age of 108, reported Deutsche Welle.
Pahor was born on Aug. 26, 1913, in...
Germany seeks prison time for alleged Nazi guard at former concentration camp
German prosecutors are seeking a five-year prison term for a man who allegedly served as a Nazi guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II, reported the Associated Press.
The 101-year-old defendant, who was...
Nazi weapons site is to be filled with the sounds of Jewish-composed music
He and his family escaped the Nazis. His music will now be played where Hitler’s regime tested its weapons.
The New York Philharmonic—in an event a decade in the making—will hold three performances next week...
House votes to bestow Medal of Honor on last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill on Tuesday to award the Congressional Medal of Honor to Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials.
The measure was introduced by Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.), in...
Bennett on Yom Hashoah: ‘We cannot allow gene of factionalism dismantle Israel’
The modern-day State of Israel must not allow “the dangerous gene of factionalism” to dismantle it from within, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Wednesday.
Speaking during a Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day...