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Fast Forward Boy on Trial in Murder of Neo-Nazi Dad
A boy accused of murdering his neo-Nazi father when he was 10 years old went on trial in California on Tuesday, with prosecutors portraying the child as violent and troubled and a defense lawyer saying he acted to protect his family. Both sides agree that Joseph Hall, now 12, shot his father, Jeffrey Hall, at…
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Fast Forward Dutch Official Sorry for Honoring Nazis
A Netherlands church official apologized to a Jewish group for a memorial ceremony that commemorated Holocaust victims with soldiers who died fighting for Nazi Germany. Rob Mutsaerts, a bishop from Den Bosch in the southern Netherlands, in a letter last week expressed his regret to the small Jewish organization JFN. Mutsaerts apologized for a sermon…
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Fast Forward Suspected Nazi Sues Australia for Deport Try
Alleged Nazi war criminal Karoly “Charles” Zentai has paved the way for a damages suit against the Australian government for wrongful imprisonment during its unsuccessful extradition case against him. Zentai, a 91-year-old pensioner living in Perth, was imprisoned in Western Australia for almost two months in 2009. He filed a writ last week for unspecified…
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News Memorial to ‘Forgotten’ Roma Holocaust Opens in Germany
Germany remembered the Holocaust’s forgotten victims on Wednesday by opening a memorial in the heart of Berlin to the half a million ethnic Sinti and Roma murdered by the Nazis. As the mournful strains of a solo violin sounded through the trees, political leaders and frail survivors approached a dark pool close to the German…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz ‘Portraitist’ Dies at 95
Wilhelm Brasse, known as the “Portraitist of Auschwitz,” has died. Brasse died Tuesday in Zywiec, Poland. He was 95. At the Auschwitz death camp, he took pictures of prisoners and photos for the experiments of Josef Mengele and Eduard Wirths. He had been sent to Auschwitz for refusing to register with the Volksliste, which classified…
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News Henry Friedlander, Holocaust Scholar, Dies at 82
Holocaust scholar Henry Friedlander, a Berlin-born survivor of the Lodz Ghetto and of Auschwitz, Neuengamme and Ravensbrueck who went on to establish the significance of Hitler’s mass murder of the disabled as a precursor to the Shoah, died on October 17 in Maine after a protracted illness. He was 82. As with many survivors, Friedlander…
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Books Hans Keilson’s First Novel Depicts Life Before Nazis
Life Goes On By Hans Keilson Translated by Damion Searls Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 272 pages, $15 Two years ago, when Farrar, Straus and Giroux released translations of his novels “The Death of the Adversary” and “Comedy in a Minor Key,” centenarian Hans Keilson told Steven Erlanger of The New York Times that he would…
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Fast Forward Oldest Ex-Auschwitz Prisoner Dies at 108
The oldest known former prisoner of Auschwitz reportedly has died at the age of 108. Antoni Dobrowolski died Sunday in the northwestern Polish town of Debno, The Associated Press reported, citing Jaroslaw Mensfelt, a spokesman for the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum. Dobrowolski was arrested and sent to Auschwitz in 1942 for holding secret lessons past the…
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