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Fast Forward Former CIA Chief Compares U.S. Immigration Policies To Nazi Germany
(JTA) — Former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency Michael Hayden compared the Trump administration’s immigration policies to Nazi Germany. In a tweet posted on Saturday, Hayden wrote: “Other governments have separated mothers and children,” under a black and white photo of the front of Auschwitz as seen from the railroad…
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Fast Forward Doomed Woman Wrote Letter Moments Before Being Murdered In Auschwitz. Now We Can Read It.
An Indianapolis man avoided for decades reading the letter his mother wrote moments before she entered an Auschwitz gas chamber — but now it is displayed in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Frank Grunwald, 85, survived the Holocaust. His mother Vilma and his disabled brother had a different fate. Moments before…
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Fast Forward German Rappers Who Mocked Auschwitz Prisoners Agree To Visit Nazi Camp
(JTA) — The rappers who brought down a prestigious German music prize over songs containing anti-Semitic lyrics will visit Auschwitz. Kollegah and Farid Bang accepted an invitation from the International Auschwitz Committee to visit the former Nazi death camp next month, Germany’s Bild newspaper reported. On April 12, they won an Echo Award in the…
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News The Little-Known Gay Hero Who Tried To Save The Children Of Auschwitz
In 1940, an article appeared in Prague’s Jewish newspaper entitled, “Healthy Youth – Healthy Homeland.” “Which do you prefer,” it began, “a proud and tall suntanned lad, or a flabby, nervous youngster with drooping shoulders? Probably the first. But what are you doing about emulating him? Nothing!” The piece was written by Alfred (Fredy) Hirsch,…
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Fast Forward Israeli Teen Fined For Urinating On Auschwitz Memorial
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A 19-year-old Israeli was detained at the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum after he was caught urinating on a memorial commemorating the victims of the camp. He was questioned for several hours and released on Wednesday after voluntarily accepting a fine as punishment, according to local reports. According to Polish law those who…
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Fast Forward ‘Bookkeeper Of Auschwitz’ Dies Before Starting Prison Sentence
The man known as the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz” who in 2015 became one of the last people to be convicted for crimes in the Nazi genocide of Europe’s Jews during World War Two, has died aged 96, magazine Der Spiegel reported on Monday. Oskar Groening was sentenced to four years for his role as an…
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Fast Forward Coco Schumann, Jewish German Jazz Legend Forced To Play For Nazis, Dies
Heinz Jakob “Coco” Schumann, a Jewish-German jazz legend who survived the Holocaust by playing for Nazis, is dead at 93, the BBC reported. Schumann, born to Jewish parents, fell in love with jazz swing music while living in Berlin in the 1930s. His first girlfriend, who was French, gave him the nickname Coco because it…
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Life Orthodox Magazine Erases Women From Image Of Auschwitz
This past week, the popular ultra-Orthodox weekly Mishpacha published a pixelated image of women during the liberation from Auschwitz, in compliance with its graphics policy which forbids pictures of women: The image ran in the magazine’s cover story, “Twin Fates”, written by Aharon Granot, profiling one of the last-surviving Mengele twins: Irene and Rene Guttmann….
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