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Breaking News Minnesota Man Sorry for ‘Nazi Night’ at German Restaurant
A Minneapolis man who organized a World War II party with actors dressed in SS uniforms at a restaurant draped in Nazi flags issued a public apology. Scott Steben issued the apology on Wednesday on behalf of a World War II reenactment group. Photos of the Jan. 20 event at a German restaurant in northeast…
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Breaking News French Minister Accuses Israel Opponents of Anti-Semitism
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls called anti-Zionism “an invitation to anti-Semitism” at a rally in Paris commemorating four Jews who were murdered in Toulouse in 2012. Valls made the statement during a speech on Wednesday – the two-year anniversary of the murder at a local Jewish day school of Rabbi Jonathan Sandler; his two sons,…
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Breaking News Hungary Jews Mark 70 Years Since Nazi Invasion
The Hungarian Jewish community held a memorial event in Budapest to mark the 70th anniversary of the occupation of Hungary by the Nazi-led German Army. Wednesday’s commemoration was held in Budapest in front of the downtown Dohany Street Synagogue. The event, sponsored by the Jewish community but open to the public, comes after representatives of…
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Breaking News 93-Year-Old Auschwitz ‘Medic’ Charged With Murder
An alleged former medic at Auschwitz was arrested in Germany on accusations that he was an accessory to murder. The name of the 93-year-old man was not released in accordance with German privacy laws. He is accused of serving as a medic at the concentration camp in September 1944. Eight transports arrived at Auschwitz during…
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News Gisela Dollinger, Holocaust Survivor Who Escaped With Husband, Dies at 111
(JTA) — Gisela Kohn Dollinger tricked death twice. Soon after Kristallnacht, when she was 36, Dollinger persuaded the Gestapo to release her husband from the Dachau concentration camp, and the two of them fled Austria for Shanghai, where she almost died of typhoid. After that, death seemed to forget all about her – until last…
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Breaking News Two Pieces of Nazi-Looted Dutch Art to Be Returned to Heirs
The Dutch government said it will return two Nazi-looted paintings to the heirs of a Jewish Holocaust victim. The 17th-century paintings — “Amsterdam Town Hall” by Gerrit Berckheyde and “View of a Dutch Harbour with Figures” by Adam Willaerts — belonged to the Dutch Jewish collector Sam Bernhard Levie, the Advisory Committee on the Assessment…
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Breaking News Latvian Nazi SS Veterans March in Annual Riga Parade
Latvians who fought in the local unit of Nazi Germany’s Waffen SS held their annual parade on Sunday, an event which the government feared could raise tensions with Russia as former Soviet states watch events in Ukraine with growing concern. Around 1,500 people – veterans in their 80s and 90s and their supporters – marched…
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Breaking News Latvia Minister Fired for Nazi Veterans March
Latvia’s prime minister said she would fire a cabinet minister planning to march with local SS veterans. Einars Cilinskis, Latvia’s minister for environment and regional development, said he would attend the March 16 rally in Riga, Reuters reported Friday. Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma’s spokesman Andis Blinds said: “Taking into account that the minister has said…
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