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Fast Forward Upper East Side Synagogue Vandalized With Swastika
Three men spray-painted a large pink swastika on the door of an Upper East Side synagogue early Wednesday morning. The vandals were recorded on security cameras as they spray-painted Sutton Place Synagogue, a congregation at 225 East 51 Street, DNAinfo reported. The video shows one of the men also painting a swastika on the door…
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Fast Forward Famed Painting In Art Trove Was Looted By The Nazis
(JTA) — Researchers in Germany have identified another painting in the “Gurlitt Collection” as having been stolen by the Nazis. The work by 19th-century French painter Thomas Couture had belonged to the Jewish politician Georges Mandel, and was identified due to a tiny hole in the canvas. Restitution to his heirs is in the works….
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Fast Forward Polish Historian Who Said Nazi Invasion Not So Bad Is Honored
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A Polish historian who said the country’s Nazi invasion was not so bad for Jews on Friday received a medal from the Polish Minister of National Education “for special merits for education.” Tomasz Panfil, who is responsible for education at the Institute of National Remembrance, earlier this month wrote an article in which…
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Fast Forward How Nazis Used Martin Luther’s Virulent Anti-Semitism
A new museum exhibition in Berlin details how the Nazis made use of the anti-Semitic words of Martin Luther, the leader of the Protestant Reformation, RNS [reported]. The exhibit is located in the Topography of Terror, a museum about methods of Nazi repression that was built in the former headquarters of the Nazi secret police,…
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Fast Forward Vienna Remembers Little-Known ‘Apartment Concentration Camps’
VIENNA (JTA) — Austria’s largest urban transport firm for the first time commemorated the Holocaust, in a subway art installation in memory of hundreds of victims who lived as prisoners on a single street. The Wiener Linien installation unveiled Thursday at the Herminengasse station features a graph scheme in which each identified victim that had…
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Fast Forward Ohio Newspaper Prints Photo Of Trump With ‘Hitler Mustache’
An Ohio newspaper has apologized for running a picture of Donald Trump with a “Hitler mustache” on its front page on Monday, a local Fox station reported. In a statement released later in the day on Monday, the Wapakoneta Daily said it “regrets” the mistake. “While we edit photos on a daily basis, this particular…
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Fast Forward Roy Moore’s Foundation Took Donation From Pro-Nazi 9/11 ‘Truther’ Group
A foundation run by Roy Moore, the Republican Party’s candidate for the Alabama U.S. senate seat, accepted a contribution from a group founded by a Nazi white supremacist. The Huffington Post reported that in 2005, the Foundation for Moral Law, a non-profit founded and operated by Moore, accepted a $1,000 contribution from the Foundation to…
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Community 3 Stalwart Acts Of Faith Saved My Family From The Holocaust
I was born in Leipzig, Germany, on May 31, 1939. I am a third-generation German. My father was born in Poland and immigrated to Germany as a 13-year-old boy to serve as an apprentice cap maker. After Hitler rose to power in 1933, things started to get bad. After the Nuremberg Laws were enacted, my…
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