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Life Black German Woman Discovers Grandfather is Nazi Villain
Photo by Sven Hoppe In the mid-1990s, near the end of the period during which she lived in Israel, Jennifer Teege watched Steven Spielberg’s film “Schindler’s List.” She hadn’t seen the film in a movie theater, and watched it in her rented room in Tel Aviv when it was broadcast on television. “It was a…
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Fast Forward Nazi Drum Made From Torah Scroll Is Preserved
A Holocaust commemoration group brought from Poland to Israel a drum that was made out of a Torah scroll and belonged to a Nazi sympathizer. The drum was found last month by volunteers of the From The Depths organization in the basement of a man who lived in a village near the central Polish city…
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Opinion How Jews Built New Life in ‘Shanghai Ghetto’
(JTA) — The neighborhood in Shanghai that was home to approximately 20,000 Jewish refugees during World War II may be added to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. While the Nazi-fleeing refugees who settled in Shanghai certainly fared better than the family and friends they left behind in Europe, life in the so-called “Pearl of…
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Culture Was Helmut Schmidt ‘Contaminated by Nazi Ideology’
● Helmut Schmidt and the Crap War: the Biography from 1918 to 1945 By Sabine Pamperrien Piper Verlag, 352 pages, $25.36 Born in 1918, Helmut Schmidt, who served as chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982, has been enjoying cultural prestige in his old age, in part for having recorded works by Bach and…
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The Schmooze Radio Host Calls Jon Stewart ‘Nazi’ for Backing Vaccination
Forget self-hating Jew. Someone just compared Jon Stewart to a Nazi. Mediaite reports that Robert Scott Bell took issue with the comedian’s ‘Daily Show’ segment urging “science-denying affluent California liberals” to vaccinate their children. Bell’s Twitter feed shows him as an active anti-vaxxer — so logically, anyone who disagrees with him would have to be a…
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Fast Forward Shanghai To Preserve Memory of Jewish Refugee Neighborhood
Shanghai is applying to have the neighborhood that sheltered Jewish refugees during World War II added to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. Some 20,000 Jewish refugees who fled the Nazis lived in Shanghai, in the Tilanqiao area of Hongkou District, according to Xinhua news service. The Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum is working with…
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Fast Forward 93-Year-Old Woman Under Investigation For Role as SS Guard
A 93-year-old woman in Hamburg is under investigation for her role as an SS guard during a Nazi death march. The investigation of Hilde Michnia was announced Monday by the Hamburg prosecutors’ office. Also Monday, prosecutors in the city of Luneburg said they will try former Waffen-SS member Oskar Groening, 93, in April for his…
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Fast Forward Italy President Calls For Unity Against Terror During Visit at Nazi Massacre Site
Sergio Mattarella, the new president of Italy, at a visit to the site of a Nazi massacre called for international unity in the fight against terrorism. On Sunday, a day after he was elected by the Italian Parliament, Mattarella made his remarks at the Ardeatine Caves, where German occupation troops killed 335 people in March…
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