A revisionist historian living in Australia could be jailed.
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Comics legends document Holocaust artist’s struggle
Neal Adams, Joe Kubert, and Stan Lee have joined forces with a Holocaust expert to craft a comic that document the struggle of an Auschwitz survivor who painted watercolors to spare her mother’s life in the Nazi camp.
Continue readingHungary Holocaust survivors to receive compensation
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A Jewish organization says survivors of the Nazi occupation of Budapest will each get a compensation payment of $2,900.
Continue readingLieberman to do Jewish outreach for McCain in Holocaust Memorial
Sen. Joe Lieberman is stepping up his efforts for John McCain, heading to Michigan next week to for a reception targeted at Jewish voters in the Detroit area. The gathering is taking place in a decidedly unique venue for a political get-together, though.
Continue readingInmate is charged with scamming the families of Holocaust victims
An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institute in Petersburg has been charged with running a scheme to cash in bank accounts intended for the families of Holocaust victims.
Continue readingHolocaust denier’s ‘attack on justice’
HOLOCAUST denier Fredrick Toben aggravated charges of criminal contempt of court by attacking federal judges and the judicial process, a court has heard.
Continue readingTraveling through history: Longview teacher visits Holocaust sites, meets ‘rescuers’
Before the school year ended, my teaching partner, DJ, asked me how I was spending my summer vacation. I told her I’d be going to camp. She asked what I meant, and I said I’d be off to Dachau, Buchenwald, Majdanek, Treblinka, and Auschwitz.
Flag exhumed from neo-Nazi grave
German authorities in the southern town of Passau have dug up a neo-Nazi’s grave to remove a swastika flag that was placed on the coffin.
Continue readingHolocaust survivor at Bexleyheath school
PUPILS at a Bexley school have been learning first hand about the horrors of the Holocaust from one of its survivors.
Continue readingSurvivors will have to wait for increased aid
In a long overdue response, the [Israeli] Prime Minister’s Office announced yesterday that the government does not intend, for the time being, to carry out the recommendations of the public commission of inquiry on the aid for Holocaust survivors.
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Source: Adi Schwartz, haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1006694.html
Webmaster note: Can you imagine the outcry if any country other than Israel had decided to make a bunch of ancient Holocaust survivors wait for their money?