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Breaking News Austria’s National Railway Opens Exhibit About Its Holocaust Complicity
Austria’s national railway company opened an exhibition at the European Parliament about the firm’s complicity in the Holocaust. Titled “The Suppressed Years,” the exhibition opened last week at a ceremony attended by members of the European Parliament, European Jewish Congress staff and Austrian Federal Railways executives, including the firm’s CEO, Christian Kern. “When we first…
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Opinion Why the Nazis Are Still Winning Kristallnacht
Wikimedia Commons Broken and Burning: The main synagogue in Frankfurt-am-Main burns in the November pogrom, 1938. The word Kristallnacht is poetic, alluring: A night of crystal — perhaps in today’s context we might think of Cristal champagne. The name the Nazis gave the violence of November 9 and 10, 1938, is redolent of European sophistication…
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Opinion Switzerland Begins To Confront Its Own Holocaust Past
What will it take for Switzerland to emerge, at long last, from the shadows of the Holocaust? The question comes up, yet again, with two recent news items. First, a Holocaust survivor family has filed suit in both Switzerland and the United States, alleging that restitution payments for family art stolen by the Nazis went…
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Breaking News World Jewish Congress Leader Warns Swiss Museum To Turn Down Gurlitt Collection
World Jewish Congress leader Ronald Lauder warned a Swiss museum to turn down the collection of masterpieces bequeathed to it from the Cornelius Gurlitt collection. Lauder in an interview with Der Spiegel magazine published Saturday said the Kunstmuseum Bern would “trigger an avalanche of lawsuits” from potential claimants should it take the 20th century masterpieces….
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Music At 97, Holocaust Survivor Plays Lincoln Center
97-year-old Emily Kessler shows off her mandolin technique / Courtesy When Emily Kessler escaped the Nazis, she stopped enjoying the music she used to sing with her parents in pre-war Ukraine. But after 40 years, Kessler finally returned to the songs she loved so much. Since then, she hasn’t stopped. Now, this 97-year-old Holocaust survivor…
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Breaking News ‘Work Makes You Free’ Sign Stolen from Dachau Concentration Camp
Part of the iron gate greeting Dachau prisoners with a sign saying “Work Makes You Free” in German was stolen. The sign, which reads “Arbeit Macht Frei,” was discovered missing from the former concentration camp early Sunday morning, The Associated Press reported. The stolen section of the gate from the prisoners’ entrance measures about 6…
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Breaking News Athens Holocaust Memorial Desecrated for Second Time This Year
The Athens Holocaust Memorial was desecrated for the second time this year, when vandals spray painted the logo of an ultra-nationalist group on it. The logo of the group known as the Unaligned Meander Nationalists was spray painted on the monument in blue paint on Oct. 30. The same group, which describes the neo-Nazi Golden…
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Breaking News ‘British Schindler’ Honored by Czechs at 105
(JTA) — A 105-year-old man known as the “British Oskar Schindler” — having saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Nazis — received the Czech Republic’s highest honor Tuesday. Sir Nicholas Winton was flown on a Czech military plane to Prague, where Czech President Miloš Zeman awarded him the Order of the White Lion. Seven of…
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