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Breaking News Lithuania Offers $622 as ‘Symbolic’ Holocaust Compensation to Jews
Government officials in Lithuania said they would offer symbolic reparations to nearly 1,800 Jewish Holocaust survivors. The officials told the Baltic News Agency Wednesday that the survivors will receive payments of $622 per person this year. The compensation was also for “suffering during the Soviet occupation,” according to the announcement. Lithuanian governments have faced criticism…
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Breaking News Silvio Berlusconi Defends ‘Feel Like Jews’ Remark Over His Legal Woes
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi stressed his support for Israel and Jewish causes after sparking outrage by comparing his family to Jews under Hitler. In an excerpt of a book to be released Friday, the eve of the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Berlusconi was quoted Wednesday as saying that, because of the long series…
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Breaking News Holocaust Survivor Donates Wedding Dress to Shanghai Museum
A Holocaust survivor whose wedding photo hangs in the Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum donated her gown to the museum. Betty Grebenschikoff, a Berliner who found refuge in Shanghai during the Holocaust, made the donation on Monday during her fifth visit to the Chinese city. Grebenschikoff, who now lives in the United States, had noticed the…
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Breaking News Dutch Vow To Return 17th-Century Artworks Looted by Nazis to Jewish Family
The Dutch state should return three precious paintings to the descendants of Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, a commission on Holocaust-era stolen artworks ruled. In its findings on the Goudstikker claim, the Advisory Committee on the Assessment of Restitution Applications for Items of Cultural Value and the Second World War said on Tuesday that the…
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News French Jews Knew To Expect Worst After Kristallnacht
(JTA) — His hearing isn’t what it used to be, but Georges Loinger still remembers Adolf Hitler’s voice emanating from the radio at his Strasbourg home. Growing up in the heavily Germanic Alsace region of eastern France, Loinger and his family tuned in regularly to broadcasts of Hitler’s speeches. They heard his “electrifying voice” and…
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Breaking News Semon Domnitser Gets 8 Years for $57M Holocaust Claims Conference Fraud
Semen Domnister, the former Claims Conference employee who was found guilty of leading a $57 million fraud scheme at the Holocaust restitution organization, was sentenced to eight years in prison. Domnister, 55, was sentenced Monday in Manhattan federal court. He was also ordered to forfeit $59,230 and pay restitution in the amount of $57.3 million….
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News Meet Margot Friedlander, Berlin’s Unlikely 92-Year-Old Jewish Celebrity
By moving back to Berlin three years ago, Margot Friedlander, a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor, has become an unlikely celebrity in the land where she was once persecuted. In 1946, when she immigrated to New York with her husband, they both vowed never to set foot again in Germany. Most members of both their families were…
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Breaking News German Police Discover 1,500 Masterpieces Seized by Nazis in Munich Apartment
Works by several of the greatest artists of the modern age have been held at a secret location near Munich for the past two years, after having been discovered in a raid by the German authorities on the apartment of an elderly man accused of tax fraud. The 1,500 pieces include works by Picasso, Matisse,…
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