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Fast Forward Amsterdam Ghetto ‘Volunteers’ Will Get $2,700 Compensation From Germany
More than 1,000 people have applied for new compensation money from Germany for labor performed in Amsterdam’s Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust. The compensation offers a one-time payment of $2,700 to people who lived in three districts of the Dutch capital that served as ghettos for the city’s Jewish community during the German occupation and…
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Fast Forward Pope Francis Vows To Open Vatican Wartime Archive — ‘Truth Must Be Goal’
Should Pope Francis decide to open the secret Vatican archives regarding the World War II pontificate of Pope Pius XII, it could still take another year and a half before the thousands of documents in question are fully catalogued. “It is a very complex operation, which we have been working on for six years,” Monsignor…
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Fast Forward UN Chief Attends Shoah Event at New York Synagogue
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited a New York City synagogue to honor the memory of the victims of the Holocaust in advance of International Holocaust memorial day. Ban on Saturday spoke at Park East Synagogue at its memorial service in honor of victims of the Holocaust. He also paid tribute to Holocaust survivors and…
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The Schmooze World War II Through a German Prism
“Generation War” (a hit in Germany as “Our Mothers Our Fathers”) is a must see for those who view World War II /Holocaust films as a kind of cinematic rosary of remembrance. With a Tolstoyan “War & Peace” sweep, its brutal battles as bloody and grim as those in Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan,” it is…
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Culture Rescued Auschwitz Opera ‘The Passenger’ Gets Long-Awaited Premiere in Houston
For nearly half a century, “The Passenger,” a gripping opera set in Auschwitz, lay dormant. Commissioned by the Bolshoi Theatre in the former Soviet Union, it was supposed to receive its premiere in 1968, but that never happened. “Soviet authorities didn’t think a piece about Jews would further the interests of the communist state,” said…
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Fast Forward Should Nazi Guillotine Be Displayed in Germany?
The discovery of a Nazi-era guillotine in a Bavarian museum warehouse has triggered a national debate about whether it should be put on display. The guillotine was used to kill at least 1,000 opponents of the Nazi regime. One of the last living members of the White Rose resistance movement, whose leaders were among those…
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Opinion In Jewish Italy, ‘Diaspora’ Is a Dirty Word
The former Jewish ghetto on the banks of the Tiber in central Rome. / Getty Images Should Jews living in the Diaspora feel ashamed of being, well, Jews living in the Diaspora? A growing number of European Jews, it seems, believe the answer is yes. But when did we start buying into this narrative? I’ve…
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Fast Forward Serbian Holocaust Restitution Deadline Looms
Families of Serbian Jewish victims of the Holocaust have until March 1 to file claims for property restitution. Serbia passed a law in October 2011 enabling restitution of Holocaust-era property or compensation in lieu of restitution for people whose property was confiscated by the Nazis or the Communist regime that followed. This week, the World…
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