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Fast Forward Holocaust Historian Returns Hungarian Honor Over ‘Whitewashing’ of Shoah
Noted Holocaust historian Randoph L. Braham is returning a high honor granted him by the Hungarian state. The action is a protest against what he called the government’s falsification of Holocaust history and attempts to whitewash Hungary’s role in the Holocaust. The Hungarian state news agency MTI on Sunday quoted a letter from Braham, 91,…
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Fast Forward Louvre To Return Two Nazi Looted Paintings To Jewish Families
French government-owned museums will return three paintings that they came to possess after the Nazis stole them from Jews during the Holocaust, France’s minister for culture said. Minister Aurelie Filippetti identified the three paintings as “Paysage Montagneux” by the Dutch 17th century painter Joos de Momper; a painting of the Madonna and Child, and another…
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Fast Forward Leading Swedish and Danish Medical Groups Call for Bris Ban
Large medical associations in Sweden and Denmark recommended banning non-medical circumcision of boys. In Sweden, the recommendation came in a resolution that was unanimously adopted last week by the ethics council of the Sweden Medical Association – a union whose members constitute 85 percent of the country’s physicians, the Svenska Dagbladet daily reported on Saturday….
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Fast Forward Obama Names Envoy to Ailing Holocaust Survivor Community
The Obama administration named a special envoy to the Holocaust survivor community. Aviva Sufian, a staff member at the Health Department’s Administration for Community Living, will be the “Special Envoy for U.S. Holocaust Survivor Services,” a White House announcement said Friday. “Her work as Special Envoy will focus on those survivors currently living in poverty,…
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Fast Forward Pig’s Head Dumped at Italian Synagogue, Israeli Embassy in Rome
Boxes containing the head of a pig were sent to Rome’s main synagogue, the Israeli embassy in Rome and a museum showing an exhibition on the Holocaust. The packages, sent via a courier service, were delivered Friday, just days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day. All three packages were turned over to Italy’s special terrorism and…
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Fast Forward Brandeis Ex-President Jehuda Reinharz Gets $4.9M Golden Parachute
Brandeis University disclosed that it paid former university president Jehuda Reinharz $811,000 for accumulated sabbatical leave that he never took during his 17-year presidency. The payment was part of a $4.9 million lump sum payment Reinharz received Jan. 2 as deferred compensation, according to a statement issued by Brandeis. The amounts paid were set aside…
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Fast Forward Shulamit Aloni, Leftist Israeli Ex-Minister, Dies at 86
Shulamit Aloni, a former Israeli minister and leader of the left wing Meretz party, died. Aloni died Friday at the age of 86. She will be buried Sunday in Kfar Shmaryahu near the northern Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya, Israel’s Army Radio reported. A veteran of Israel’s War of Independence War and a product of…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Eyewitness Account Translated to Mandarin Chinese
The report of a Polish non-Jew who escaped Auschwitz to deliver first-hand testimony of the Holocaust was for the first time translated into Mandarin. The account of Witold Pilecki, a Polish army captain escaped the death camp in 1943, appeared earlier this week in Taiwan, according to a report by Polskie Radio. The work in…
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