Tag: Nazis
France returning Klimt art, sold under duress in 1938, to heirs of Jewish owner
France’s culture minister Roselyne Bachelot announced on Monday that the French government will return a painting by famed artist Gustav Klimt to the heirs of its Austrian Jewish owner, who was forced to sell...
Coming home: 65-year-old hidden Jew celebrates his bar mitzvah
“My family were hidden Jews, but not anymore. With this coming of age ritual, I’m proudly reclaiming my Jewish heritage,” said Robert Powell, a 65-year-old Wisconsinite about his recent bar mitzvah at Chabad of...
IBM and the Holocaust
Without the International Business Machines Corporation, there would still have been a Holocaust. Einsatzgruppen murder squads and their militia cohorts would still have murdered East European Jews bullet by bullet in pits, ravines and isolated clearings....
Former Portugal leader sends anti-Jewish COVID tweet, Nazi salutes on Portuguese TV
A leader of Portugal’s 1974 revolution is being criticized after he posted anti-Semitic tweets earlier this week about the COVID-19 vaccine. The criticism comes just days after a contestant in a Portuguese TV show...
The Jews who fought back during the Holocaust
This week, leaders from around the world commemorated those who perished at the hands of the Nazis during International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This year, like most, there were statements recognizing and remembering those who...
US Department of Justice denies deportation appeal of former German Nazi guard
A man who served as a Nazi concentration-camp guard has lost his appeal to halt his deportation, announced the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday.
Friedrich Karl Berger, a German citizen, was ordered removed from...
Jewish Refugees Return to Fight Hitler
About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Armed Forces, a 2020 documentary, is now streaming on Amazon. The film documents the thought-provoking WWII story of young Jewish men and women who escaped certain death at...
Biden compares Trump to Nazi propaganda chief Goebbels
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has compared U.S. President Donald Trump to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.
When asked in a Sept. 26 interview on MSNBC about Trump’s repeated accusation that Biden was pushing a...
Austrian Holocaust survivors’ descendants to be eligible for citizenship from Sept. 1
The descendants of Austrian Holocaust survivors will be eligible for Austrian citizenship starting next month, the Austrian Embassy in Israel announced earlier this week. The measure extends to survivors’ children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
“All direct...
US ambassador to Holland visits cemetery that includes graves of Waffen-SS
U.S. Ambassador to Holland Pete Hoekstra visited a Dutch cemetery on Thursday where Nazis are buried.
“Walked among the graves at Ysselsteyn, a cemetery for German soldiers from WWI & WWII. A terrible reminder of...