Tag: Nazis
Montreal author of antisemitic article found guilty of promoting hate
A Quebec court on Tuesday ruled that a Montreal man who had penned an antisemitic article for a neo-Nazi website was guilty of promoting hatred of Jews.
Gabriel Sohier-Chaput was found guilty on one count...
Secretary at Nazi concentration camp guilty of complicity in over 10,500 killings
The former secretary of the Nazi commander of the Stutthof concentration camp was convicted on Tuesday of complicity in the murders of more than 10,500 people.
Irmgard Furchner, 97, who worked as a typist at...
Yad Vashem releases rare photos of Kristallnacht pogrom
A newly discovered photo album recently donated to Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Museum, features rare photos of the events of the November Pogrom of 1938, termed “Kristallnacht” by the Nazis.
The museum released the photos...
The Holocaust and Lithuania’s family secret
Silvia Foti grew up hearing praises of her grandfather. Jonas Noreika—known affectionately as “General Storm”—is still hailed in Lithuania as a war hero and anti-Soviet partisan who fought for Lithuania’s independence at the height...
All eyes upon this 13-year-old
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...
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...
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...
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...
Why Russia has once again turned on the Jews
Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, caused outrage earlier this week after he was asked on Italian TV how Russia could claim to be “de-Nazifying” Ukraine when its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish.
Lavrov replied: “I...
Gabriel Bach, 94, former Israeli Supreme Court justice and Eichmann prosecutor
Former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Gabriel Bach, who was a prosecutor in the 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, died on Feb. 18 at the age of 94.
The Israel Judiciary Authority announced Bach’s passing...