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Fast Forward Jewish Man Whose Identical Twin Was Raised as Nazi Dies
A Jewish man who as an adult reunited with a long-lost identical twin raised as a Nazi died at age 82. Jack Yufe, who with his twin Oskar Stohr was featured in the 1997 German documentary “Oskar and Jack,” died of stomach cancer Monday in a San Diego hospital, the Los Angeles Times reported. Born…
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Fast Forward Treasure Hunters Raid Sobibor Graves
The graves of Holocaust victims at the Sobibor Nazi death camp in Poland have been dug up by treasure hunters. The mass graves were discovered to have been disturbed during an archeological dig, the Daily Mail online reported on Monday. “There has been a big archaeological project going on, but when we started excavating we…
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News Why Does Ben Carson Keep Talking About the Nazis?
Ben Carson, the flavor du jour in Republican politics, may be challenging Donald Trump’s status as front-runner in the GOP’s primary race. But the pediatric neurosurgeon-turned-would-be-president is far from the kind of candidate that many mainstream Republicans, including many Jews, have come to know. Alongside his classic conservatism on social and family issues, Carson has…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Blames Muslims for Nazi Extermination of Jews
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provoked a Holocaust controversy on Wednesday, hours before a visit to Germany, by saying that the Muslim elder in Jerusalem during the 1940s convinced Adolf Hitler to exterminate the Jews. In a speech to the Zionist Congress late on Tuesday, Netanyahu referred to a series of Muslim attacks on Jews…
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Fast Forward ‘Nazi’ Long Island Suburb Accused of Race Bias
A New York suburb that was established by Nazi sympathizers in the years leading up to World War Two still uses discriminatory housing practices to ensure its residents remain white, according to a lawsuit filed this week. A couple who lived in Yaphank, a hamlet of 6,000 about 65 miles (105 km) east of New…
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Fast Forward Concentration Camp Currency Unearthed by Researchers
(JTA) — In the 70 years since the fall of the Third Reich, the trappings of Nazi power have become infamous icons of evil — think of the swastika flag, the yellow badge or the striped concentration camp uniform. But have you ever heard of “Holocaust money,” the currencies that the Nazis forced on Jews…
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Fast Forward Giant Nazi Banner for Film Sparks Outrage in French City
(JTA) — A large Nazi banner unfurled in Nice, France, caused an outcry among locals and tourists. The red banner with a swastika hung from the Palais de la Prefecture on Monday and Tuesday, during the filming of an adaptation of Joseph Joffo’s Holocaust memoir “A Bag of Marbles.” “People started screaming,” tourist Andrew Gentry told…
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Fast Forward Catalog of Herman Goering’s Looted Art Is Published
A comprehensive catalog listing the more than 1,000 major stolen artworks in Nazi leader Hermann Goering’s collection has been published for the first time. The handwritten catalog, which had been stored in France’s diplomatic archives and accessible only to scholars, was published Wednesday by the French publisher Flammarion, the UK Telegraph reported. With notes detailing…
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