Harvard University, one of America’s premiere academic institutions, is coming under fire for running an advertisement in its campus newspaper questioning the reality of the Holocaust. Recently named for the second straight year as the No. 1 school in U.S. News & World Report rankings of American colleges, Harvard is known for its rigorous scholarly […]
“The image is said to have been created in Vienna by Hitler’s art teacher, Emma Lowenstramm, and is signed on the reverse by the two dictators. Hitler was a jobbing artist in the city in 1909 and Lenin was in exile and the house where they allegedly played the […]
“John Kalymon, 88, once known as Iwan Kalymon sheds a tear talking about his deportation outside his home Monday, Aug. 31, 2009 in Troy. Kalymon, accused of helping the Nazis during World War II as a Ukrainian policeman, says the government’s decision to try to deport him is “terrible.” The Justice Department charges that he […]
“BERLIN - AUGUST 27: Original construction plans of the Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps lie on a table shortly before the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benajmin Netanyahu at the Axel Springer publishing house on August 27, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. Bild newspaper head Kai Diekmann presented the plans as a gift for the Yad […]
A lawyer in New York has sued the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet following its article accusing Israeli soldiers of smuggling dead Palestinians’ organs.The Israeli lawyer Guy Ophir, based in New York, has submitted a civil action to the New York State Supreme Court, the TT news wire wrote. He’s claiming $7.5 million in damages against Aftonbladet […]
“Dr Collins added: “He used to always tell the story of a little sardine tin thrown away by a German camp guard around the time of Hanukkah. “Ernest picked it up and they used the oil left in it to make a little light.” more@BBC.co.uk
“Revenge, they say, is a dish best served cold. Kurt Gutmann — a German Jew who once served in the Black Watch — has waited for more than 60 years to see someone tried for the murder of his mother and brother in Nazi death camps. Now, at the age of 82 […]
In the Netherlands an important relic from World War II —the shed where Jewish diarist Anne Frank last worked as a slave laborer — has burned down, most likely as a result of arson. The place where famous World War II diarist Anne Frank worked has been destroyed. The shed from Dutch transit camp, Westerbork, […]
“The Hamburg Finance Court must now decide whether Soda-Club devices made in Maale Adumim can be imported into the European Union duty-free, like all other Israeli industrial products. Brussels doesn’t want the company’s products to fall into this category because they are manufactured in Israeli settlements located in the occupied territories.The real question revolves around […]
“Arabs raided the yeshiva of Homesh in Samaria on Wednesday and torched dozens of books of the Talmud and of the Five Books of Moses, leaving behind a pile of ashes. The arsonists ignored personal equipment, including beds, tables and chairs, and concentrated all their energies on Jewish texts. “It was a horrible sight to […]
A security guard and two other people were shot today inside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in downtown Washington, authorities said. U.S. Park Police said a gunman opened fire on the security guard and that other security guards returned fire. The gunman was reported wounded. The shooting was reported to police at 12:52 […]
“In 1939, the German ocean liner St. Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany, was turned away from the Florida coast by U.S. officials.” AP
