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Fast Forward Did Benjamin Netanyahu Smuggle Auschwitz Blueprints Out of Germany?
BERLIN — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought back original blueprints of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp to Israel from Germany seven years ago – likely without knowing he was doing something illegal, according to a German journalist. The blueprints were given to Netanyahu on a trip to Germany, Kai Diekmann said in an interview for the…
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Fast Forward Pennsylvania Man Admits He Lied About Being an Auschwitz Survivor
— A Pennsylvania man who for years traveled the country giving speeches and media interviews about his experiences as a Holocaust survivor acknowledged that he had been lying and apologized. In a letter published Thursday on the LancasterOnline news site, Joseph Hirt, of Lancaster County said he lied not for personal gain but in hopes of raising…
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News Auschwitz Game Highlights Serious Holes in Google’s Review Process
Controversy raged this week over news that the Google Play store had allowed a free mobile game that promised players could “live like a real Jew” at Auschwitz. For the second time in a month, Google’s review process was brought into serious question. But now, the game’s creators have come forward to say that was…
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News Google Game Let Users ‘Live Like a Real Jew in Auschwitz’
Google Play has withdrawn from its store a mobile game that lets players “experience Auschwitz as a Jew” that has sparked anger in the Jewish community. The app, which was created by a vocational school in Spain, was meant as a parody according to the game’s description. However, the developers also wrote that they support…
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Fast Forward ‘Justice Finally Done’ as 94-Year-Old Auschwitz Guard Gets Prison
A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard was sentenced to jail in Germany on Friday by a judge who branded him a “willing and efficient henchman” in the Holocaust. In what is likely to be one of Germany’s last trials for World War Two-era atrocities, Reinhold Hanning was convicted of being an accessory to the murder of…
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Fast Forward 16,000 Lost Mementos of Auschwitz Victims Unearthed
— The Auschwitz Museum says it has rescued from storage 16,000 personal items belonging to Jews killed at the Nazi death camp. Museum officials said Tuesday that Poland’s former Communist government stored the items — including empty medicine bottles, shoes, jewelry and watches — and then neglected them, Agence France Press reported. “In most cases, these…
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News Chris Lerman, 90: She Helped America Remember the Holocaust
I first met Rosalie Chris Lerman and her husband, Miles Lerman, in 1978 when I interviewed for the position of deputy director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust. As they said in “Casablanca,” it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. In the almost 40 years that followed we worked together building the United…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Victim’s Gold Jewelry Unearthed in False Bottom of Mug
WARSAW, Poland — Staffers at the Auschwitz museum found a gold ring hidden in a false bottom of one of the cups on display in the main exhibition. During conservation work on one of the enamel mugs, a double, or false, bottom was discovered, the museum said in a statement this week. Inside the false…
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