PARIS (AFP) — French journalist Pierre Pean broke down in tears Wednesday on the second day of his trial for inciting hatred in a book on the Rwandan genocide after he was compared to a famous Holocaust denier.
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Bridgeport law firm comes to the aid of Holocaust survivors
BRIDGEPORT — Hungarian-born Sari Baron lives in Bridgeport. But she spent much of her teen years at Auschwitz, where she was forced to make bombs. Unable to walk after a bomb fell on her foot, she was left behind during the liberation.
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Hate speech law creates ‘political elite’: lawyer
OAKVILLE — Canada’s human rights hate speech laws can, and eventually will, prohibit discussion of any historical conflict in which religion or race played a role, according to a leading defender of Canada’s most notorious far-right figures.
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Holocaust survivor shares her story with youngsters
- Pupils hear of traumatic journey from Berlin to concentration camp to England
Rights laws outdated in Internet age, hearing told
TORONTO — An adjudicator of a human rights hearing into an Internet hate case expressed serious misgivings Monday about whether a provision used to attack hate speech can continue to exist in the Internet age.
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Mofaz: Livni misusing survivors funds
Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz issued a harsh attack on his main rival for the Kadima leadership, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, on Saturday night, accusing her of not having the clean hands that are seen as her top electoral asset.
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Holocaust survivor recalls Nazi terrors
“The nightmares are now gone, but I will never forget those dark days,” Lisl Schick said. “I lost most of my family to the Nazis … my grandparents, aunts, uncles.”
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Speaking out on Auschwitz
MULGRAVE holocaust survivor Abraham Cykiert walked out of Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz concentration camp, thanks to his wits, some dirty jokes and the compassion of an unlikely ally.
Continue readingJerry Springer discovers how his grandmothers were killed in the Holocaust
- Jerry Springer, the American chat show host, breaks down in tears tonight (Wed) as he discovers how both his Jewish grandmothers were killed in the Holocaust.
Publisher wants judgment reversed on phony book
BOSTON (AP) — The publisher of a phony book about surviving the Holocaust is hoping to win reversal of a judgment against her in favor of the author.
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