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Building of Latvian Saeima Republican in Riga, Latvia. Credit: Konstantinks/Shutterstock.

Latvia’s parliament passes $45 million Holocaust-restitution bill

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Latvia’s parliament passed a bill that will provide compensation for unrecovered Jewish property and funding for the country’s Jewish community, reported The Associated Press. The Law on the Compensation of Goodwill to the Latvian Jewish Community...
The facade of New South Wales parliament house on Macquarie Street with Australian, New South Wales and aboriginal flags raised. Credit: Demamiel62/Shutterstock.

Australia’s New South Wales considers ban on public displays of swastikas

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The New South Wales Parliament in Australia is considering a proposed bill that would outlaw all public displays of Nazi symbols, such as swastikas. The legislation would give exceptions to symbols used for educational, historical...
Amazon logo on the facade of one of its corporate office buildings in Silicon Valley, in the San Francisco Bay area. Credit: Sundry Photography/Shutterstock.

Amazon denounced for selling, streaming original Nazi-propaganda films

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Americans Against Anti-Semitism has asked Amazon to remove from its platform more than 30 Nazi propaganda films that are available for purchase and streaming. Israel Bitton, the watchdog group’s executive director, wrote an open letter to the...
A still from the Netflix documentary “Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis,” November 2021. Credit: Courtesy of Netflix.

Netflix short film, ‘Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis,’ leaves viewers cringing

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It was basically the complete opposite of what they expected. A group of German Jews who fled Hitler and Nazi Germany, and who signed up to be American soldiers, wanted to exact revenge. Instead, they...
A performance of Neely Bruce’s oratorio, “Circular 14: The Apotheosis of Aristides,” named after Aristides de Sousa Mendes's issuing of thousands of lifesaving visas to Jewish and non-Jewish refugees against the Portuguese government’s “Circular 14,” which made it illegal for Holocaust refugees to pass through Portugal. Credit: Courtesy of the Sousa Mendes Foundation.

Portugal honors diplomat who saved Jews from Nazis

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Portugal honored Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a former diplomat for the country, who helped save thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War II. “People who at the decisive moment put their and their...
Harry Haft. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

HBO acquires rights to biopic about boxer forced to fight fellow prisoners in Auschwitz

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HBO Films has bought the North American rights to a biographical movie about a boxer who survived Auschwitz after being forced to fight fellow prisoners. “The Survivor” was directed by Jewish Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson with...
A memorial at Babi Yar in Ukraine, the site of a September 1941 massacre carried out by German forces and Ukrainian collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. Credit: meunierd/Shutterstock.

Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center publishes 159 names of Nazi soldiers who murdered Jews...

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Against the background of the official commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the Babi Yar Massacre, with the participation of the presidents of Ukraine, Germany and Israel, the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (BYHMC) has released...
Helmut Oberlander as a young member of Einsatzkommando 10a. Credit: Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.

Last Canadian suspected of Nazi war crimes dies before he can be deported

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Helmut Oberlander, 97, the last Canadian facing allegations of Nazi war crimes, died on Monday before the federal government could complete its 26-year-effort to deport him, according to Canadian media reports. Oberlander had been in...
King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands speaks with Holocaust survivors at the country's new Holocaust memorial in Amsterdam, Sept. 19, 2021. Source: Koninklijk Huis/Twitter.

Memorial honoring 102,000 Dutch victims of Holocaust opens in Amsterdam

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A new memorial in Amsterdam’s Jewish Cultural Quarter pays tribute to the more than 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust, the Associated Press reported. The National Holocaust Memorial of Names, which was unveiled on Sunday, is comprised of...
Powązki Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw, Oct. 25, 2012. Credit: Jolanta Dyr via Wikimedia Commons.

Warsaw’s Jewish community buries remains found of unidentified Holocaust victim

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Warsaw’s Jewish community buried the remains of an unidentified Holocaust victim on Tuesday, found in a building that was once part of the Warsaw Ghetto. “We are here as the family for a person we...