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Fast Forward German Pediatrician Gets PhD — 77 Years After Denied by Nazis
A German pediatrician has passed her PhD defense exam at the age of 102, after being denied the opportunity by the Nazis. Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport passed the exam last Wednesday at the University of Hamburg, some 77 years after she completed her thesis on diphtheria. She had been refused entrance to the oral exam in 1938…
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Fast Forward Two Nazi-Looted Paintings From Gurlitt Collection To Be Returned to Heirs
A German court formally authorized the return of two Nazi-looted artworks from the collection of the late art collector Cornelius Gurlitt. The paintings, among the most valuable of the more than 1,400 artworks discovered in Gurlitt’s home in Munich and later in a second home in Salzburg, Austria, can be retrieved this week by the…
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Life A Jewish Woman’s Plea for Help Comes to Life — 76 Years Later
Shira Goldberg stepped across the stage at East Henderson High School in western North Carolina and presented a yellowed letter to Shani Lourie. The letter’s writer, a German woman seeking help in escaping the Nazis from an American man she believed was a relative, was Shira’s distant cousin. The 8-year-old Florida girl was entrusting this…
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Opinion Sympathy for the Nazi?
From two very different places — a courtroom in the northern German city of Lunenberg and the pages of a best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel — comes a vexing question that has special relevance for contemporary Jews: Is there ever a time when we should sympathize with a Nazi? In Germany, Oskar Groening is being tried…
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Fast Forward Red Cross Admits World War II Failings as Holocaust Spread
The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross attacked his organization’s World War II record, saying it “lost its moral compass.” Peter Maurer, presenting the keynote address Tuesday at a Geneva commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi death camps, said the ICRC “failed to protect civilians and, most notably,…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor Sparks Anger by Embracing Auschwitz Accountant
A Holocaust survivor who publicly forgave and embraced a 93-year-old former Nazi officer on trial has angered plaintiffs in the case after saying the government should stop the prosecution. Eva Mozes Kor, who had been one of 50 Auschwitz survivors bringing charges against Oskar Groening, a concentration camp guard who has been described as the…
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Culture There’s a British Royal Buried in Jerusalem — And 9 Other Things You May Not Know About Israel
JTA) — Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, falls on April 23. In honor of the Jewish state’s 67th birthday, we present, in no particular order, 10 little-known aspects of its history. 1) El Al used to fly to Tehran. Iran and Israel enjoyed mostly good relations up until the Islamic revolution that overthrew the shah…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Bookkeeper Admits ‘Moral Guilt’ in Trial for 300,000 Murders
(Reuters) — A 93-year-old former bookkeeper at Auschwitz who is accused of being an accessory to mass murder told a German court that he felt morally guilty for his work at the Nazi death camp, describing in detail the grisly killings he had witnessed there. Oskar Groening, in what could be one of the last…
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