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Fast Forward WATCH: The Auschwitz Museum Just Released This Moving Documentary
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum just released a moving documentary that tells the story of the museum’s founding and charts its 70-year history. The museum, which receives over one million visitors each year, was founded in 1947. Although the museum is a beacon of Holocaust education for people around the world, it has a controversial history….
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Fast Forward New German Law Curbs Hate Speech, Holocaust Denial On Social Networks
BERLIN (JTA) — The German parliament passed a new law Friday designed to curb hate speech and libel on social networks. The law requires Internet platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to remove material with obviously illegal content and fake defamatory “news” within 24 hours of its having been reported. Previously, illegal material was reported but did not have to be…
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Yiddish World Yiddish Summer Weimar Will Highlight the Cultures of Israel
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. This year the theme of the annual festival, Yiddish Summer Weimar, will be “The Other Israel: Seeing Unseen Diasporas.” Besides its usual programming the five-week celebration of Ashkenazi culture will also include a series of concerts and workshops dedicated to the various cultures of Israel and the…
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Fast Forward German Neo-Nazis Flock To Spain To Party And Display Their Swastika Tattoos
German neo-Nazis are traveling abroad to party in Spain, openly displaying tattoos and flags that are outlawed in Germany, the Daily Mail reported Tuesday. Following the fall of the Third Reich, Germany outlawed displays of the swastika, Hitler salutes and all other Nazi symbolism. Offenders can receive jail time. However, the British paper reported, a…
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Fast Forward Fugitive Holocaust Denier Turned Over To Germany
(JTA) — Hungarian officials have handed over to German authorities right-wing extremist Horst Mahler, who fled Germany to avoid serving out the rest of a sentence for Holocaust denial and incitement to anti-Semitism. Mahler was transferred late last week into German custody at Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt Airport, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Mahler, 81, was arrested…
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Fast Forward Angela Merkel Urges Fight Against Anti-Semitism In Speech At Argentina Synagogue
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking at a synagogue in Argentina, said anti-Semitism must be fought “wherever it appears.” She also praised Argentina for receiving Germans who escaped from the Nazis during World War II. In the first hours of her one-day official visit to the South American country, Merkel on Thursday…
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Fast Forward French-German TV Channel Under Fire For Canceling Anti-Semitism Documentary
(JTA) — The French-German channel Arte is facing criticism for deciding not to broadcast a documentary called “Chosen and Excluded — Jew Hatred in Europe.” Arte’s head of programming, Alain le Diberder, wrote a letter to the Central Council of Jews in Germany on Thursday defending the network’s decision, according to Deutsche Welle. Diberder’s said that the…
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Fast Forward Fugitive Holocaust Denier Ordered Extradited Back To Germany
(JTA)– A Hungarian court has ordered the extradition of German right-wing extremist Horst Mahler who fled Germany to avoid serving out the rest of a sentence for Holocaust denial and incitement to anti-Semitism. Mahler, 81, was arrested on May 15 in the Hungarian city of Sopron while trying to cross into Austria. The Budapest city court on…
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