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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...
In the new film “My Name Is Sara,” a 13-year-old Jewish girl, Sara Goralnik, poses as “Manya,” there are some who would like to kill her in the newly released Holocaust film, “My Name Is Sara,” based on a true story. Credit: Courtesy of Strand Releasing.

All eyes upon this 13-year-old

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A young man starts to say the Shema because his father made him promise to do so if the Nazis were to get him. His sister, Sara, covers his mouth, and as the lights of the Nazis...
Memorial garden at the former site of the Vélodrome d’Hiver (Vel’ d’Hiv), the Winter Stadium, in Paris, where 13,000 Jews were rounded up and forced to stay during July 16-17, 1943. Credit: Djampa via Wikimedia Commons.

Macron commemorates 80th year of mass arrest of French Jews during Holocaust

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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...
Henry Madden Library at California State University, Fresno. Credit: Nightryder84 via Wikimedia Commons.

California State University, Fresno, removes name of Nazi sympathizer from library

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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...
A monument commemorating the victims of the concentration camp KL Soldau set up by Nazi Germany in Działdowo during World War II, Aug. 19, 2014. Credit: Poeticbent via Wikimedia Commons.

Mass graves of 8,000 Nazi victims from World War II found in Polish forest

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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...
Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer, June 12, 2012. Credit: Scott-Hendryk Dillan via Wikimedia Commons.

German president honors Holocaust survivor with lifetime achievement award

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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...
Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and CEO of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and Dawn Arnall, its chairwoman, present a letter written and typed by Adolf Hitler in 1919 documenting plans for German and world Jewry to Pope Frances at the Vatican on June 22, 2022. Credit: Vatican Media, Courtesy of Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Simon Wiesenthal Center grants Pope Francis 1919 anti-Semitic letter by Hitler

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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...
Boris Pahor, June 20, 2015. Credit: Claude Truong-Ngoc via Wikimedia Commons.

Oldest concentration-camp survivor dies at age 108

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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...
Prisoners in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, in December 1938. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Germany seeks prison time for alleged Nazi guard at former concentration camp

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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...
The New York Philharmonic will hold three performances at the Usedom Music Festival, which presents concerts in the turbine hall of the Peenemünde Power Station in Germany, May 2022. Credit: Courtesy of Usedom Music Festival.

Nazi weapons site is to be filled with the sounds of Jewish-composed music

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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...