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Today, at his small Spanish-style home in Mid-City, Weinstein, 101, recalls in agonizing detail what it was like to give up his baby in 1941 amid the Nazi juggernaut. He is frail, but his wit and memory are keen. He remembers well what followed: killing Germans, dodging death, hunting for Natalie.
Continue readingPart of the power of social networking is the ability to form communities with like-minded individuals.
Continue readingNEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut auction house says it has sold the journals written by Nazi death camp doctor Josef Mengele. The sale is drawing criticism from a leader of Holocaust survivors who says the business was profiting off the sale of one of the worst mass murderers in history.
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I love the Iranian cartoons and have started pasting them elsewhere.
But it took a little while to realise the first set are thumbnails (perhaps a note to remind people?) and there’s no “forwards/backwards” buttons at the bottom of the page.
Is the Holocaust best understood through fiction? That was the theme of a recent revue of Ruth Franklin’s novel, Higher Truth appearing on the Jewish internet journal Tablet. The revue provided a setting for an unlikely week-long exchange between Holocaust denier Michael Santomauro and me. I contacted Michael before submitting this article and he agreed to allow his name to appear but asked, “please reference me as a Holocaust Revisionist -and an amateur one at that.” A degree of humility that likely allowed for our extended discussion.
Continue readingFormer Secretary of State Henry Kissinger apologized Friday for a recently revealed remark from 1973, where he said it was no concern of the US if Soviet Jews were gassed.
Continue readingAuthor and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel was mistakenly declared a “Holocaust winner” by the Fox News network during an interview last week.
Continue readingATHENS, Greece — A high-level priest on the morning show of the largest television station in Greece blamed world Jewry for Greece’s financial problems on Tuesday.
Continue readingA list of confirmed names of Jews killed by the Nazis in the Second World War has reached the four million mark, Israel’s Holocaust museum announced, saying the identity of all six million dead may never be known.
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The doctor, who has not been named, refused to perform thyroid surgery on the 36-year-old lorry driver when he saw the tattoo of an imperial eagle perched on top of a swastika, surrounded by laurel wreathes.