- Accusations Fly About Motives in Struggle Over Insurance Restitution
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Survivor works to keep memory of Holocaust alive
As a young girl, Ela Stein Weissberger said she cherished the moments when she played a cat in a production with other children her age.
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Head of panel on Holocaust survivors: Olmert ignoring pledge to boost benefits
A month after presenting the committee report examining the state’s support of Holocaust survivors, retired Supreme Court justice Dalia Dorner — who headed the committee — attacked Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in an extremely harsh way for not implementing the recommendations.
What’s this say about Philadelphia?
Celia Yewlow, 91, Holocaust survivor
Celia Peres Yewlow, 93, formerly of Northeast Philadelphia, a Holocaust survivor, died yesterday at Willow Lake, an assisted living residence in Willow Grove.
Just make it go ‘oom-pah,’ already
Yvette Assael-Lennon — survived Holocaust in women’s orchestra
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Race-hate pair flee to US for political asylum
TWO men convicted of publishing race-hate articles on the internet have skipped bail and fled to the United States to claim political asylum, the Yorkshire Post can reveal.
Gas chambers or gas stations?
The best way to alleviate the current oil crisis would be to reach an understanding with Iran, which possesses enormous and as yet untapped reserves of oil and gas. And the surest way to worsen this crisis would be to mount a military attack on that country, which would then not fail to block the strait of Hormuz and so prevent any oil tanker from passing through the region.
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Still no evidence of Nazi gas chambers
Scholars make finds in Nazi archive
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The Counterfeit Saga(s): What Really Happened at Sachsenhausen?
“The Counterfeiters” purports to tell the story of how Jews at Sachsenhausen concentration camp produced near-perfect forgeries of the British pound for the Nazis. But be forewarned: Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitsky’s 2008 Academy Award winner for best foreign film lacks a great deal of the drama inherent in the real-life story. That’s the word from veteran American journalist Lawrence Malkin, whose book “Krueger’s Men” (Back Bay Books) is widely regarded as the definitive nonfiction work on the saga. Originally published by Little, Brown and Company in 2006, the book was recently released in paperback, bearing a small sticker referring to “the true story that inspired the Oscar-winning movie.”
Vatican accuses Jewish groups on WWII archives
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) — Jewish groups have no cause to complain of the Vatican restricting archives on Pope Pius XII, accused by some of ignoring the Holocaust, and should open all their own files, a Vatican official said on Tuesday.