Tag: World War II
Macron commemorates 80th year of mass arrest of French Jews during Holocaust
French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the dangers of anti-Semitism as part of an 80th commemoration ceremony of a mass arrest and roundup of Jews in Paris that took place during the years of World...
Mass graves of 8,000 Nazi victims from World War II found in Polish forest
Two mass graves containing the ashes of at least 8,000 Poles killed by the Nazis during World War II were recently discovered in a forest in Poland by archeologists and anthropologists from the Institute...
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...
Belgian woman who saved Jewish children from the Holocaust dies at 100
A schoolteacher and a member of the Belgian Resistance during World War II and the Holocaust, Andrée Geulen-Herscovici died on June 1 in Ixelles, Belgium, at the age of 100. As a member of...
New monument in Tashkent spotlights Uzbek role in saving Jews during Holocaust
The Israeli embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, unveiled a monument on Sunday to honor Uzbeks who assisted Jewish refugees during World War II.
The monument is located in the city’s Victory Park. It was created by Uzbeki...
How do Putin and Zelensky get the Holocaust so wrong?
t’s a piece of the Holocaust that even scholars misunderstand, or neglect altogether. And it’s a story unknown even to the descendants of a quarter-million Holocaust survivors.
The United Nations Holocaust Outreach Programme hosted author...
Germany seeks prison time for alleged Nazi guard at former concentration camp
German prosecutors are seeking a five-year prison term for a man who allegedly served as a Nazi guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II, reported the Associated Press.
The 101-year-old defendant, who was...
Airline deletes Holocaust-related ad from social media after facing backlash
The low-cost British airline EasyJet removed from its official social-media account an advertisement that featured a flight number tattooed on a customer’s arm after social-media users criticized the ad’s references to the Holocaust.
“While this...
Latvia’s parliament passes $45 million Holocaust-restitution bill
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...
Keshet Studios, Disney to produce series on woman who sheltered Anne Frank
Keshet Studios will produce a limited series for Disney+ about Miep Gies, the Dutch woman who sheltered Anne Frank and her family during World War II.
“A Small Light” will be told from the perspective...