Tag: Nazis
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...
Lithuania, the land of the happy nazis
Between the dates of September 11 through 12th, Lithuanians, with their nazi colleagues, murdered 43 persons in Uzusalis. The record does not indicate if these particular victims were Jews. These killings were stated to...
Israeli Minister: Relations with Trump are more important than calling out Nazis
Israel must condemn Nazis but relations with US President Donald Trump are more important, Communications Minister Ayoub Kara, who lately has been one of the ministers closest to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told The Jerusalem...
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...
Court lets US family take museum to court over Nazi-looted painting
Almost 80 years ago, Lilly Cassirer surrendered her family’s priceless Camille Pissarro painting to the Nazis in exchange for safe passage out of Germany during the Holocaust.
For nearly 20 years, the Jewish woman’s heirs...