Tag: Nazis
A graphic novel of Jews hunting Nazis
his graphic novel is set shortly before the Six-Day War of 1967 with the action alternating between B’nei Barak, Israel, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. A Haredi Jew in B’nei Barak has nightmares remembering how...
SS guard, 92, to go on trial in Germany for Nazi crimes
A 92-year-old former SS guard charged with helping murder 5,230 prisoners at a Nazi death camp in World War II will go on trial in October, prosecutors said on Thursday.
Bruno Dey, whose full name will...
Nazi-stolen artwork, vases returned to Jewish families in Germany after 80 years
Goods stolen by the Nazis 80 years ago were returned to descendants of their original Jewish owners in two separate cases in Germany.
On Monday in Munich, nine works of art, including paintings, casts and engravings,...
Lithuania votes to find new name for street heralding Nazi collaborator
The city council in Lithuania’s capital has voted to rename a street that currently bears the name of anti-Semitic Nazi collaborator Kazio Skirpos.
The final tally in the Vilnius city council decision to change the...
Film to be made about Nuremberg Trials 99-year-old prosecutor Ben Ferencz
A film about the head prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials following World War II will be made.
Producers Barry Avrich and Patrice Theroux have acquired the film and television rights to the life story of...
A Bundist Talks About the Bund
I HAVE ALWAYS wondered what qualifies someone to write an article on a given topic. I had always assumed that one needed to be an expert in a given field to give an interesting and...
Arabs are torch-bearers for Nazi anti-Semitism
Truth be told, the virus of Nazi anti-Semitism was exported to the Arab and Muslim world as early as the 1930s. It gave ideological inspiration to Arab nationalist parties like the Ba’athists in Syria...
World Jewish Congress calls Poland’s new Holocaust law ‘historical obfuscation’ and an ‘attack on...
NEW YORK – The World Jewish Congress has strongly objected to a proposed new Polish law which would criminalize suggestions that Poland was responsible for Nazis crimes, calling it “an act of historical obfuscation and...
Auschwitz guard, 96, must serve prison sentence, Germany’s highest court rules
Germany’s highest court has ruled that a 96-year-old former Auschwitz guard should serve his prison sentence for his role in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews at the concentration camp.
Oskar Groening was convicted and sentenced in...
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...