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Fast Forward 95-Year-Old Auschwitz Guard Dies While Appealing Conviction
(JTA) — A former Nazi SS guard who was sentenced to five years in prison by a German court for his role as an accessory in the murder of at least 170,000 people in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland has died. Reinhold Hanning’s lawyer told Reuters he found out about his client’s death on Tuesday, and did not…
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Fast Forward South African School Sorry For ‘Heil Hitler’ Jibes During Holocaust Play
(JTA) — The high school student who interrupted a South African Jewish school’s performance of a play about the Holocaust with chants of “Heil Hitler!” and other anti-Semitic taunts has expressed remorse. The principal of the Edenvale High School, Larry Harmer, also apologized for the incident during a meeting Monday with the South African Jewish Board…
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Fast Forward Bulgarian Official Admits ‘Horsing Around’ On Buchenwald Trip
(JTA) — A leader of Bulgarian Jews condemned his country’s deputy prime minister, who said jokingly that he may have behaved inappropriately when visiting a former Nazi concentration camp. Valeri Simeonov, vice-president of the United Patriots and Bulgaria’s deputy prime minister, told the Sega newspaper on Tuesday he and some his friends may have taken…
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Fast Forward Long Island Group With Nazi Past Settles Discrimination Case
Ninety years ago, the small hamlet of Yaphank in Long Island was a Nazi enclave in New York state, with a nearby pro-Nazi summer camp and rules restricting home ownership to Germans. Shockingly, those home ownership rules remained officially in place until this week, when New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman reached a settlement…
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Yiddish World 120 Years Of The Forverts: How We Covered The Hindenburg Disaster
This article originally [appeared](http://yiddish.forward.com/articles/203879/-years-of-the-forverts-the-hindenburg-disaster/ “appeared”) in the Forverts. Saturday, May 6, marked 80 years since the Hindenburg exploded while attempting to land in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 passengers, crew members and one man on the ground. Widely seen newsreels, along with the now legendary radio broadcast featuring Herbert Morrison crying while reporting the tragedy…
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Fast Forward South African College Students Suspended Over Nazi Posters
Three South African students were suspended on Thursday on suspicion of putting up Nazi-inspired posters at an elite university, at a time of growing tension in race relations. Stellenbosch University said the images, which copied Nazi youth movement posters without their swastika flags, contained “highly offensive references to Nazi propaganda and Neo-Nazism” and were in…
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Culture How Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ Anticipated The Holocaust
This Month Anne Reads: Metamorphosis: By Franz Kafka ‘As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” The famous first line of this haunting tale is hard to forget and painful to remember. From the beginning the end is clear. Gregor Samsa will be…
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Fast Forward Jews Among 70,000 Slaughtered By Nazis In Channel Island Camps That Britain Covered Up
A shocking new report says up to 70,000 prisoners — including many Jews — may have been murdered by the Nazis in slave labor camps on the Channel Islands — a toll that British intelligence covered up. Britain’s official history says just 400 prisoners were killed in camps off the French coastline. But a new…
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