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Fast Forward A New Tel Aviv Holocaust Monument Will Honor Gays Persecuted By Nazis
JERUSALEM — A monument to gays persecuted by the Nazis will be built in Tel Aviv. The monument, the first of its kind in Israel, will be constructed in Meir Park, near the Tel Aviv Gay and Lesbian Association Center in the central part of the city, Haaretz reported. It will include a concrete pink…
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Opinion When Jewish Toronto Fought Back — 80 Years Ago
Was the carving of two swastikas into a Toronto golf course last weekend a random hate crime — or a twisted nod to history? Police think it was a run-of-the-mill act of anti-Semitic vandalism. But some note the crime took place on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the historic Christie Pits riots, when…
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Books Joseph Goebbels Novel Faces Ban in Russia
Russian prosecutors are investigating the appearance of a Russian-language edition of a book by Nazi Germany’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, to rule whether it is extremist and should be banned. State prosecutors in Russia’s second largest city, St Petersburg, launched the probe into the novel “Michael” this week after it appeared in early 2013 on…
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Fast Forward 98-Year-Old Nazi Killer Dies Awaiting Hungary Trial
A 98-year-old Hungarian man has died awaiting trial on charges of torturing Jews and helping send them to Auschwitz in World War Two, his lawyer said on Monday. Laszlo Csatary, who always denied the accusations, died of pneumonia in a Budapest hospital on Saturday, lawyer Gabor Horvath told Reuters. The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center named…
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Fast Forward Is Nazi Treblinka Letter on Auction Block a Fake?
An auction house in Britain is investigating the authenticity of a letter billed as sent by a Nazi official and detailing Jewish transports during the Holocaust. The letter details the transportation of 5,000 Jews daily to the Treblinka extermination camp and is to be auctioned off on August 21 by Mullock’s, an auctioneer in the…
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Opinion When Canada Kept Jews in Internment Camps
Ringed with barbed wire and isolated from surrounding communities, the notorious internment camp held more than 700 Jews in the early days of World War II. But this wasn’t Germany or Poland. Internment Camp B70 was located in a bucolic corner of the Canadian province of New Brunswick — and only now are locals, and…
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Fast Forward How Hollywood Played Nice With the Nazis
When one thinks of how Hollywood has related to the Nazis, among the first movies that come to mind are “Casablanca” and “The Great Dictator,” in which the America movie industry portrayed the Nazis and Adolf Hitler in particular in a critical manner. A new book being published in the United States claims, however, that…
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Fast Forward 4 Guilty in Roma Neo-Nazi Killing Spree That Horrified Hungary
A Hungarian court found four men guilty on Tuesday of killing Roma families in a spree of racist violence in 2008 and 2009 that shocked the country and led to accusations that police had failed to protect an historically persecuted minority. Six Roma were killed and several wounded in the attacks, which created a climate…
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