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Fast Forward World Leaders Join Auschwitz Survivors at 70th Anniversary of Liberation
(Reuters) — World leaders joined around 300 Auschwitz survivors at the site of the former Nazi death camp on Tuesday to mark 70 years since its liberation by Soviet troops, an anniversary held in the shadow of war in Ukraine and a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe. Tuesday’s gathering in southern Poland marks perhaps the…
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Fast Forward World Readies for Auschwitz Anniversary Without Russia’s Vladimir Putin
(Reuters) — Russia’s Vladimir Putin will be absent from the main event marking 70 years since Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, held against a backdrop of hostilities in Ukraine and warnings of a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe. The commemoration on Tuesday at the site in southern Poland where the Nazis…
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Fast Forward Nazi War Criminal Loses Canada Citizenship
A Nazi-era war-crimes suspect has lost an appeal to keep his Canadian citizenship. In a ruling made public on Jan. 22, Canada’s Federal Court rejected the claim of Helmut Oberlander, 90, that he served Nazi Germany under duress. The court’s verdict upheld an earlier government decision. Oberlander failed to show that he had made any…
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Fast Forward 35% of Germans Equate Nazi and Israel Policies
A new study of German attitudes toward Israel showed an increase in Israel-related anti-Semitism among Germans. The survey found that while many Germans would prefer not to discuss the Holocaust, they are willing to compare Israeli policies toward Palestinians today with those of Nazi Germany. Called “Germany and Israel Today: Linked by the Past, Divided…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Town Haunted by Death, Even 70 Years Later
(Reuters) — Bogumila recalls how as a small girl growing up in the Polish town of Oswiecim she saw prisoners beaten by Nazi guards and watched with her mother the distant glow of the crematorium fires of the Auschwitz concentration camp. “Everyone sat in their homes in silence, windows shut as tightly as possible,” she…
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Fast Forward World’s Largest Ship, Named After Dutch SS Officer, Makes Waves Among Jews
European Jewish groups are protesting the name of the world’s largest ship, which was named after a Dutch officer in the Nazi Waffen-SS military force. The Pieter Schelte, which docked in Rotterdam in early January, is named after an SS officer convicted of war crimes in World War II, according to the Guardian. Schelte conscripted…
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Fast Forward Romania Honors ‘Hero’ Who Praises Hitler Allies
A Romanian anti-Semitism watchdog condemned Romanian President Klaus Iohannis’ honoring of a man who praised fascists who murdered Jews during the Holocaust. The Center for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism, or MCA Romania, was responding to the admission last month of the anti-Communist political activist Octav Bjoza into the Order of the Star of Romania for…
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Fast Forward Nazi Code Breaker’s Notebook May Fetch $1M
A notebook about mathematics and computer science written by Nazi-code breaker Alan Turing, played by actor Benedict Cumberbatch in the Oscar-nominated film “The Imitation Game,” will be sold at auction, Bonhams auction house said on Wednesday. The 56-page manuscript is expected to fetch at least seven figures, with a portion of the proceeds going to…
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News Indiana University removed its Jewish studies director. His replacement has ignited a firestorm over Israel.
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Fast Forward Groundbreaking analysis of Hitler’s DNA shows no Jewish ancestry — but finds a genetic disorder
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