Tag: the Holocaust

Here's one good clue on distinguishing between US detention centers for immigrants and Nazi concentration camps: in the US the worst that can happen to you is to be expelled to Mexico.

CNN Inside Politics host John King on Monday afternoon questioned the claim made by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) that her ancestors provided a "safe haven" for Jews after the Holocaust.

The Polish government's struggle to shirk the Polish people's responsibility for their share in the industrialized mass murder of Jews is now hitting the phase where the crimes of Polish collaborators start costing Poland a lot of money.

While 51% were familiar with Adolf Eichmann, the administrator and organizer of Hitler’s “Final Solution,” only 14% knew that Eichmann was Austrian. As was Hitler.

"The 447 right-wing law adopted by the US Congress scares voters in Poland."

The drones are collecting topographic data that EJCI experts, who are based in Kiev, Ukraine, use to track down and design plans for the cemeteries.

Jews who tried to hide in urban areas during the Nazi occupation of Poland were much less likely to survive • “Poles who chose to save Jews were essentially violating the unwritten norms of their community.”

At long last, Mr. Morawiecki, have you no shame?

Katz quoted late prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir, who said the poles drank in their anti-Semitism with their mother's milk.

Project Witness and the Museum of Jewish Heritage both testified in support of Deutsch’s bill last week, and are conducting educational efforts throughout this week.

Yad Vashem has so far been successful in documenting close to 4,800,000 of the six million Jewish victims.

The exhibition tells the stories of diplomats who risked their lives and the safety of their families to rescue hundreds and even thousands of Jews.

However, 82% of respondents believe all students should learn about the Holocaust in school, while 85% said it is important to keep teaching about the Holocaust so that it does not happen again.

Most of the Jews – especially the children – died immediately because the water was freezing cold.

Olère felt compelled to capture Auschwitz artistically to illustrate the fate of all those that did not survive.

Rome's was the last remaining ghetto in Western Europe until ghettos were reintroduced by Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

As many as 250,000 Jews were murdered at Sobibor, making it the fourth worst extermination camp, after Bełżec, Treblinka, and Auschwitz.

On September 8, 1939, German forces entered Lodz and immediately began targeting and terrorizing Jews, who constituted 34%, or 223,000 people, of the city’s prewar population of 665,000.

Zuroff said that “the Government of Lithuania has, over the last 25 years, been making great efforts to eliminate the crimes of thousands of Lithuanians that were directly involved in the murder of Jews.”

Prosecutor Rommel noted the huge difference between the US legal requirement for deportation, versus the German requirement for capital crime proceedings.

Until Tuesday, German officials have been stressing they would only admit German-born Nazis, or Nazis who were charged with a crime in Germany.

There's an abundance of nursing homes in Münsterland, Germany, and one of them has just become home to a 95-year-old Nazi who once participated in murdering 6,000 Jews in one day.

Aiman ​​Mazyek, chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, advocates religious tolerance.

The Romanian group for Monitoring and Fighting Anti-Semitism condemned the vandalism against the "memory of Elie Wiesel, the memory of the Holocaust victims and the souls of the Holocaust survivors."

On Holocaust Memorial Day 2010, Meyer was invited to an event at the Parliament, where he compared Israeli policy to the Nuremberg laws.

According to Anadolu, Oktar has been placed on a wanted list issued by Combating Financial Crimes department of the provincial police.

An almost giddy Polish official was firm on the joint statement – the freewheeling Polish translation of which was published in that country's media.

"Islamophobia is also a kind of anti-Semitism," MK Tibi noted, "so we must all be united in the fight against racism, the rejection of the other and the creation of stereotypes."

Some 600,000 Jews from Greater Hungary were murdered during the Holocaust.

Visitors ask questions and lifelike projections of Gutter and Schloss answer in real time—offering personal reflections about life before, during, and after the Holocaust.