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Fast Forward South Africa Protest Against Cecil Rhodes Stokes Anti-Semitism
Protests by black students of a statue honoring British colonizer Cecil Rhodes provoked tensions with Jewish students by invoking swastikas and other Nazi imagery. Members of the student protest group Black Monday hung posters bearing pictures of Adolf Hitler and swastikas on the University of Cape Town’s Jameson Hall as part of a campaign to…
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Fast Forward Aussie Lawmaker Tossed Over ‘Goebbels’ Flap
A Jewish lawmaker was thrown out of Australia’s Parliament after protesting Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s description of the opposition leader as the “Dr. Goebbels of economic policy.” Joseph Goebbels was the propaganda minister for Nazi Germany. Opposition Labor Party lawmaker Mark Dreyfus, one of three Jewish lawmakers in Parliament, jumped up to protest Abbott’s choice…
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Fast Forward Greek Jews Mark 72 Years Since Thessaloniki Round-Ups
The Greek city of Thessaloniki remembered its nearly 50,000 Jews sent to Nazi death camps during World War II. A memorial marking the 72nd anniversary of the roundup and deportation of Thessaloniki Jews was held Saturday. Participants placed flowers on train tracks where the Jews were taken away in cattle cars headed for Auschwitz-Birkenau, The…
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News Russian Jewish Leader Slams Ukraine Moguls in Flap Over World War II Nazi Ally
A former leader of Russian Jews said he would like to hang prominent Ukrainian Jews “until they stop breathing” as a feud deepens over their refusal to denounce a onetime Nazi ally during World War II. Yevgeny Satanovsky, who served as a president of the Russian Jewish Congress in the years 2004 and 2005, made…
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News Strange But True Tale of How Biggest Nazi Archive Wound Up in Colorado
(JTA) — The yellowing document is crumbling and fading, but the smooth signature on its cover is as legible as it is chilling: Rudolf Hess, the Nazi who served as a Hitler deputy from 1933 to 1941. The signature, which adorns a 70-year-old leniency plea for top Nazi Hermann Goering during the postwar Nuremberg trials,…
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Fast Forward Liberation of Shanghai Ghetto To Be Commemorated
The World Jewish Congress and China’s government are preparing a joint commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Shanghai Ghetto. The People’s Republic of China and WJC intend to host the ceremony in September, the parties said in a joint statement to media on Wednesday. More than 23,000 Jewish refugees lived in…
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Culture ‘Woman in Gold’ Success Shows German Preoccupation With Nazi Past
(JTA) — Two starkly different images: a woman wrapped in shimmering gold, a man whipped and bleeding on a cold cement floor. The first, a 1907 painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, is the centerpiece of “Woman in Gold,” a film starring Helen Mirren that had its world premiere last week at the Berlinale International…
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Fast Forward Families Sue Germany for Return of Guelph Treasure ‘Sold’ to Nazis
Heirs of four Jewish art collectors filed suit against Germany to regain a medieval gold treasure they claim was forcibly sold to the Nazis in 1935. Alan Phillip and Gerald Stiebel filed their claim on Monday against Germany and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. They are…
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