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Fast Forward Monument to Gay Victims of Holocaust Unveiled in Israel
A monument to gays persecuted by the Nazis was dedicated in Tel Aviv. The monument, the first of its kind in Israel, was constructed in Meir Park, near the Tel Aviv Gay and Lesbian Association Center in the central part of the city. The monument is made up of a concrete pink triangle along with…
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Opinion Germany’s Not Just Faking Holocaust Contrition
News that drunken revelers had, on New Year’s Eve, used Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe as a urinal came shortly after The New York Times published an op-ed by Yascha Mounk on the conflicts of being a German Jew. Together, these items create an image of a Germany not at ease with…
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Fast Forward German Court Dismisses Case Against Nazi Guard Over Lost Evidence
A German court dismissed a case on Wednesday against a 92-year-old man accused of killing a Dutch resistance fighter in World War Two when he was in Hitler’s elite Waffen SS, citing lost evidence. At the end of one of Germany’s last Nazi war crimes trials, the judge in the court in the western city…
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Fast Forward Greek School Unearths Diplomas for 157 Jewish Students Killed in Holocaust
A teacher at a school in Greece has discovered the graduation certificates of 157 Jewish students who fled the city or were deported to Nazi death camps and plans to return them to the survivors or their descendants. Antonio Crescenzi, a teacher at Italian School in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, found a trove of…
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Fast Forward New Year’s Revelers Urinate on Berlin Holocaust Memorial
New Year’s revelers shot fireworks and urinated in Germany’s Holocaust memorial in Berlin. But memorial staff members have vowed to put a stop to the desecration. Reacting to a shocking video of young party-goers celebrating among the 2711 steles of the memorial last week, spokesperson Jenifer Stolz told JTA that “we are all quite appalled….
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Opinion Ani DiFranco’s Slave Plantation Gaffe
At first glance, it seems that Ani DiFranco has become the latest example of how a mix of star-fueled insulation from the real world and white privilege can lead to bad public relations. After an Internet-inspired backlash, the feminist singer-songwriter has canceled a musical retreat at a former slave plantation in Louisiana, now a resort…
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Fast Forward Death Camp Barracks Is Returned to Auschwitz
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has returned a section of wooden barracks that was given on long-term loan by the Auschwitz museum 24 years ago. The barracks — half of a wooden building in which Jewish prisoners slept while imprisoned in the death camp — arrived at Poland’s port of Gdynia on Sunday, the Associated…
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Fast Forward Greece City of Thessaloniki Plans Holocaust Center at Death Camp Train Station
The northern Greek city of Thessaloniki will build a Holocaust research center at the site where some 50,000 of the city’s Jews were deported to Nazi death camps. The agreement to establish the Memorial Center on Holocaust Education Remembrance and Research at the city’s old railway station was signed among the Thessaloniki Jewish community, the…
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