Toby Axelrod
By Toby Axelrod
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Fast Forward Dutch tram company that carried Anne Frank to her doom sought compensation for their trouble, new research shows
Newly discovered documents prove the GVB company was working directly for the Nazis and that it tried to recover its costs even after the war’s end
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Fast Forward Israeli journalist criticizes West Bank ‘apartheid’ at Berlin film festival ceremony marked by Gaza war protests
The Berlinale’s closing ceremony included multiple calls for a Gaza ceasefire, in a display that Berlin’s mayor condemned as antisemitic
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Fast Forward ‘Golda,’ biopic about Israeli leader at war, wins top prize from Cinema for Peace Foundation
The film, which stars Helen Mirren, focuses on former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir’s role during the Yom Kippur War in 1973
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Fast Forward A ‘Tiny House’ at Berlin’s film festival offered a safe space to talk about the Israel-Hamas war
The initiative was sponsored by the Berlinale and organized by an Israeli social entrepreneur and his Palestinian collaborator
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Fast Forward Berlin film festival bars far-right party criticized by Jews from opening event
The Alternative for Germany party has come under scrutiny amid revelations about a secret meeting involving neo-Nazis
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Fast Forward Grandson of Munich massacre victim assaulted in Berlin; family says attack was motivated by hate
“We are deeply horrified by the brutal, allegedly anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish student at our university and condemn the act in the strongest possible terms,” the Free University said in a statement
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Fast Forward Holocaust and Srebrenica survivors launch Jewish-Muslim effort to prevent genocides
Attendees said they hoped the United Nations would declare July 11 as a memorial of the Srebrenica massacre, much like it created International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Fast Forward Number of living Holocaust survivors is about 245,000, according to new analysis
The oldest known survivor is Rose Girone, 112, of Queens, New York. Her family escaped Germany in 1938 and lived out the war in Shanghai
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