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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Vandals Mar Warsaw Ghetto Memorial
Unknown vandals painted “Jude Raus” at the entrance of a memorial to the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The words, which mean “Jews Out,” were discovered Wednesday at the Anielewicz Mound in Warsaw. The monument to Mordechai Anielewicz, commander of the uprising, as well as to the rest of the uprising’s fighters, is located…
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Fast Forward Michelle Obama Visits Berlin Holocaust Memorial
First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha visited the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, amid tight security. According to Uwe Neumaerker, director of the memorial, the Obamas made their way Wednesday morning through a part of the sea of 2711 stele that make up the memorial, which was designed by American-Jewish architect Peter Eisenman…
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Fast Forward No. 1 Most-Wanted Hungarian Nazi Used Dog Whips on Jews
Hungarian prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 98-year-old man who tops the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center’s wanted list with war crimes, saying he had helped to deport Jews to Auschwitz in World War Two. Laszlo Csatary was found guilty in absentia in 1948 of whipping or torturing Jews and helping to deport them to the death…
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Fast Forward Minnesota Neighbors Stunned at Nazi ‘Killer’ Michael Karkos Under Their Noses
Friends and neighbors were stunned at revelations that an elderly suburban Minneapolis man was actually a wanted Nazi killer with ties to killings at the Warsaw Ghetto, the Associated Press reported. Michael Karkoc, 94, had lived for decades without anyone suspecting his past in a murderous SS unit, the report claimed. “I know him personally….
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Fast Forward Italian Righteous Gentile Put on Path To Sainthood by Church
An Italian Catholic activist and journalist who was declared a Righteous Gentile for saving Jewish lives during World War II has formally been put on the road to sainthood by the Roman Catholic church. Odoardo Focherini was beatified – the step before sainthood – at a ceremony Saturday in his hometown of Carpi, near Modena…
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Fast Forward Nazi Killer Found After Hiding in Plain Sight
A man suspected of being a Ukrainian Nazi with links to murders during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and other massacres has been living in Minnesota for over 50 years, according to evidence recently uncovered. The Associated Press reported on Friday that Michael Karkoc, 94, entered the U.S. after lying to immigration authorities in 1949 that…
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News Help for Needy Holocaust Survivors In Doubt as Donor Conference Scrapped
When 47 countries affirmed a 2009 declaration pledging to address the needs of the world’s poorest Holocaust survivors, it was seen as a solemn commitment that promised concrete measures to come. But four years on, organizers have postponed the first international conference in which the participant countries were to discuss how best to meet their…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Opens Shoah Exhibit at Auschwitz Holocaust Museum
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened a new permanent exhibit titled “Shoah” at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The ceremony took place Thursday in what used to be the Nazi extermination camp at the former Prison Block 27, which has been designed as an exhibit showing the death camp in the larger context of genocide in…
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Yiddish טשיקאַוועסן: שפּורן פֿון אַ געטאָ־בונקער אַנטדעקט אין בענדין, פּוילןTidbits: Traces of a ghetto bunker uncovered in Będzin, Poland
פֿון אָט דעם בונקער האָבן ייִדן אין אויגוסט 1943 געפֿירט אַ ווידערשטאַנד קעגן די דײַטשן.
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