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Fast Forward Germany Launches ‘Last Chance’ Hunt for Nazis
Video: Nate Lavey A “last chance” campaign to root out surviving Nazi war criminals and bring them to justice before they die will be launched next week in Germany, almost 70 years after the end of World War Two. Nazi-hunters have been encouraged by the prosecution last month in Hungary of 98-year-old Laszlo Csatary for…
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Fast Forward Bones of Jewish Victims From 1941 Polish Pogrom Are Reburied
The remains of victims from the Jedwabne pogrom were reburied at a ceremony marking the 72nd anniversary of the massacre in the Polish town. Dozens of people gathered Wednesday at the site in Jedwabne where Poles murdered hundreds of their Jewish neighbors on July 10, 1941. Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich and Piotr Kadlcik, the…
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Fast Forward Trial of Most-Wanted Nazi Killer Laszlo Csatary Halted in Hungary
Video: Nate Lavey Citing double jeopardy, a Hungarian court suspended the trial of war criminal Laszlo Csatary three weeks after its start in Budapest. In suspending the trial on Monday, the Metropolitan Tribunal of Budapest said Csatary, 98, already may have been convicted and sentenced for some of the crimes attributed to him, the Hungarian…
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Fast Forward Forgotten Nazi ‘Euthanasia Holocaust’ of Disabled To Get Memorial in Berlin
Berlin has laid the foundations for a memorial to a largely neglected group of Nazi victims – hundreds of thousands of mentally and physically disabled people murdered by Hitler’s regime under its “euthanasia” programme. A 30-metre blue glass wall will stand on the site of the former headquarters of the “euthanasia” scheme in the heart…
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Fast Forward Mennonite Is Righteous for Saving French Jews
Lois Gunden, an American Mennonite who helped save Jewish children in France during the Holocaust, was recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. The Israeli Holocaust memorial made the announcement on Monday. Gunden becomes the fourth American to be named a Righteous Gentile. Gunden will be honored posthumously at a ceremony to take…
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Fast Forward Adolf Eichmann Nazi Files Will Stay Secret — for Now
A German court rejected a German newspaper’s bid to view files related to Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, ruling they should remain classified. The Bild Zeitung newspaper, which sued in 2011 to see the files, could try to appeal the June 28 decision by the Federal Administrative Court to Germany’s Supreme Court, according to reports….
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Fast Forward Court Orders Anne Frank Letters Sent to Swiss
A Dutch court ordered the Anne Frank Foundation in Amsterdam to return archival material to a Swiss charity named for the teenage Jewish diarist. The Anne Frank Foundation must give back the archive to the Anne Frank Fund in Basel by Jan. 1, the Amsterdam District Court ruled on Wednesday. Since 2007, the archive has…
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Fast Forward Jews Backpedal on Honors for ‘Italian Schindler’
Research showing that Giovanni Palatucci, the “Italian Schindler,” was a Nazi collaborator rather than a hero has spurred several Jewish groups to remove honors in his name. Historians at the Centro Primo Levi at the Center for Jewish History in New York confirmed last week that Palatucci, an Italian police chief credited with saving thousands…
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Yiddish אַ קורס וועגן די שפּריכווערטער געזאַמלט דורך די אַנ־סקי עקספּעדיציעסA course on the Yiddish proverbs collected through the An-Ski expeditions
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