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Breaking News Diary of Nazi Leader To Be Displayed at U.S. Holocaust Museum
The diary of Nazi leader Alfred Rosenberg is set to go on display at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will hand over the diary to the museum on Dec. 17 during a short ceremony. Following a 17-year search, the diary was recovered earlier this year by Immigration…
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Breaking News White House Will Help Holocaust Survivors Living in Poverty, Says Biden
Vice President Joe Biden said the White House will work with the Jewish community to help Holocaust survivors living in poverty. Speaking at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s Centennial on Tuesday, Biden said the White House will appoint a special envoy at the Department of Health and Human Services to act as a liaison…
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Breaking News Sapling from Anne Frank’s Tree Cut Down in Amsterdam
A sapling that came from the tree that stood outside the hiding place of Anne Frank in Amsterdam was cut down and stolen in Frankfurt, German police said. The cutting was planted in 2008 outside Frankfurt’s Anne Frank School, named after the world-famous Jewish teenage diarist who was born in the German city in 1929…
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Breaking News Two Turkish Students Detained by Auschwitz Museum Guards for Nazi Salute
Two Turkish tourists were detained by guards at the Auschwitz museum for appearing to make a Nazi salute. The tourists, a man and a woman, both 22, were taking pictures of each other in front of the gate to the former Nazi death camp under the iconic sign “Arbeit macht frei,” or work makes you…
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Culture From Orthodox Teen Lesbians To the Holocaust, An Author Courts Controversy
If I were making a list of topics I am not looking forward to discussing with my young daughters, the top three might be (and I am not sure in what order) sexual desire, the Holocaust and Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. So I don’t know whether to be grateful for Leanne Lieberman’s books or…
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Breaking News EU Regrets Hosting Rabbi Accused of Holocaust Denial at Sponsored Event
The European Union regrets the attendance at an event it sponsored of an anti-Zionist rabbi who has been accused of Holocaust denial, the parliament spokeswoman has said. “It is regrettable that this has led to a situation which has caused offense,” E.U. spokeswoman Marjory van den Broeke told JTA Thursday in reference to the attendance…
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Breaking News Dutch Website Sells Letters From Concentration Camps
A Dutch online sales platform is selling letters that Jewish Holocaust survivors wrote in concentration camps. Marktplaats.nl is posting for sale alongside Nazi memorabilia letters by Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz and Dachau. One of the sellers, a resident of Luxembourg identified by the handler “Bundum,” is offering 29 items, including one letter which he describes…
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Culture In Pursuing Bob Dylan for Hate Speech, Croatian Group Denies Holocaust
Bob Dylan uttered hate speech?! Not so fast. In fact, it’s his accusers are engaged in hate speech: specifically, denying the Holocaust. The blogosphere was abuzz with the news Tuesday that Dylan was being investigated by French authorities for comments he’d made in a Rolling Stone magazine interview, published in English in September, 2012, and…
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