Tag: World War II
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...
The Greatest Jewish Generation
The Greatest Generation, that milestone generation which saved the world in the Second World War, is rapidly dwindling right before our eyes. The death of George H.W. Bush at age 92, the youngest Navy...
![Jewish effigy representing Judas burnt and hung in Poland [Twitter]](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/POLAND-324x235.png "In the flames consuming a ‘Judas’ effigy in Poland, a deadly trope persists")
In the flames consuming a ‘Judas’ effigy in Poland, a deadly trope persists
When I worked for the Anti-Defamation League more than a decade ago, relations between the Polish government and the Jewish community worldwide were incomparably better than they are now. But even then, there were...
Italian soccer fans caught performing fascist salutes ahead of match
A group of supporters of the Italian Serie A football club SS Lazio were caught on video performing fascist salutes and hanging banners glorifying former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini ahead of the team’s Wednesday...
Lithuania Jewish community slams state center for faulty details of Holocaust
The state-funded Center for the Study of the Genocide and Resistance of Residents of Lithuania has been under fire for publishing last month that “the Lithuanians operated against the will of the Germans” during...
Canada obtains Hitler-possessed book chronicling North American Jewry
Library and Archives Canada announced that it had obtained a rare book from 1944 that Adolf Hitler once possessed.
The federal institution mentioned that it got the book through a well-respected Judaica seller, who received...
Reversing his decision, Macron decides not to honor Vichy leader Pétain
After much backlash, especially from the Jewish community, French President Emmanuel Macron will not commemorate Marshal Philippe Pétain, who led Vichy France under Nazi occupation during World War II.
“We had announced that we would...
Macron plans to honor Philippe Pétain, leader of Vichy France in World War II
French President Emmanuel Macron called it “legitimate” to honor Marshal Philippe Pétain, commemorating the centennial since the end of World War I, even though he led Vichy France under Nazi occupation during World War...
The connection between WWI armistice and WWII Kristallnacht
Two grimly sobering anniversaries fall in November. On the 9th and 10th, we will mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht—the orgy of murder and violence that devastated Jewish communities across Nazi Germany in 1938....
When a Bavarian Monastery Provided a Home to Jewish Refugees
ohn Glass bowed his head as the cantor’s melody echoed through the cemetery in prayer for the children buried beneath the grassy-green surface.
Church bells sounded in the distance, a reminder of the unlikely setting...