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| January 27, 2014
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Spielberg addresses UN: We must act on what was learned from the Holocaust

Israeli envoy Ron Prosor tells the UN, “State of Israel is the only guarantee to ensure the future of the Jewish people.”

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

Oscar-winning film director, writer and producer Steven Spielberg stressed on Monday the importance of gathering testimony to horrors such as the Holocaust in order to create awareness and preventative measures for the future.

Spielberg speaks at the General Assembly hall of the United Nations headquarters in New York, January 27, 2014. - Photo: Reuters

Spielberg speaks at the General Assembly hall of the United Nations headquarters in New York, January 27, 2014. – Photo: Reuters

“Mass graves don’t have to open up before we act,” Spielberg said in the keynotes address of a special UN General Assembly session marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Continue Reading »

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| January 26, 2014
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United Nations: Hungarian Envoy apologizes for complicity in the Holocaust

Ambassador Casba Körösi: “Institutions in the then-Hungarian state were responsible for the Holocaust.”

By MAYA SHWAYDER, SAM SOKOL
 

 

The Hungarian ambassador to the UN said in New York on Thursday his nation took responsibility for its role in the Holocaust, days after the country’s Jewish community accused the government of engaging in Holocaust revisionism.

He spoke at a event commemorating the 70th anniversary of the deportation of Hungarian Jews, sponsored by the UN Department of Public Information for NGOs.

Ambassador Casba Körösi, who became unusually emotional for a diplomat during his remarks, conveyed the sincere apologies of the Hungarian state for the crimes committed, and admitted the state’s guilt in both its complicity in standing by and its assistance to the criminals. Continue Reading »

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| January 24, 2014
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Treasury marks a victory over diminishing group of Holocaust survivors

Decade-long legal battle ends with decision to not recognize the group Tehran Children, as Holocaust survivors

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The Finance Ministry’s legal department has defeated another group of Holocaust survivors. Congratulations. It’s an achievement they can hang on their walls as a badge of shame.

This week’s courtroom victory came after a legal battle lasting more than a decade by a group of Holocaust survivors known as the “Tehran children.” The group, whose number has naturally dwindled in recent years, originally consisted of some 1,200 Jewish children from Poland who went to the Soviet Union, then to Iran and finally to pre-state Israel in 1943. Continue Reading »

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| January 20, 2014
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Vatican: Secret Archives on Pope Pius XII not ready to be opened

Pope Francis had expressed his views in 2010 in a book he co-wrote, that the World War II archives should be opened.

 

 

ROME – Should Pope Francis decide to open the secret Vatican archives regarding the World War II pontificate of Pope Pius XII, it could still take another year and a half before the thousands of documents in question are fully cataloged.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahy with Pope Francis at the Vatican, December 1, 2013.- Photo: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahy with Pope Francis at the Vatican, December 1, 2013.- Photo: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO

“It is a very complex operation, which we have been working on for six years,” Monsignor Sergio Pagano, the prefect of the Secret Vatican Archives, told the Italian daily Corriere della Sera on Monday.

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| January 10, 2014
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Polish Bill: Jail For Those Who Say ‘Polish Death Camp’

 

Poland opposition’s bill would impose prison terms on those who say “Polish camps” instead of properly identifying them as “Nazi” camps.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

 

Poland’s conservative opposition on Friday called for use of the erroneous term “Polish death camp” in reference to Nazi German facilities to be punishable by jail time, AFP reports.

Jews carry Israeli flags at Auschwitz – Reuters

Users of the term could get up to five years in prison, according to a bill introduced in parliament on Friday by the Law and Justice party.

Lawmakers voted to have it sent back to committee for more work. Continue Reading »

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| January 8, 2014
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70 years later: Hitchcock’s long-abandoned Holocaust film restored

 

With the restoration of actual Holocaust imagery almost complete, how will 21st-Century audiences respond to the footage that traumatized the king of thrillers?

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A Holocaust documentary created by thriller film master Alfred Hitchcock based on Soviet and British footage of World War II camps will finally be screened to the public in its entirety nearly 70 years after it was made, The Independent revealed on Wednesday.

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A young woman at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany shouts ‘Shoot them, kill them as they killed our families’ as Allied troops supervise Germans, 1945. – Photo : AP

The film, which took longer to create than Hitchcock and patron Sidney Bernstein anticipated, was put in the drawer in 1945 when the Allied military government apparently decided that a documentary highlighting the German atrocities would do more harm than good. Continue Reading »

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| January 8, 2014
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Long Overdue: Greek school to finally present graduation diplomas to Holocaust survivors

The graduation certificates of 157 Jewish students who fled Thessaloniki for their lives or were deported to Nazi concentration camp were found by Greek teacher.

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A teacher at a school in Greece will present recently discovered graduation certificates to 157 Jewish students who fled Thessaloniki or were deported to Nazi death camps, or to their descendants.

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Thessaloniki. – Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

Antonio Crescenzi, a teacher at the Italian School in Thessaloniki, found a trove of old documents by accident about a decade ago. After sorting through them he realized their significance, he told the Israeli Maariv daily. Continue Reading »

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| January 3, 2014
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Poles Rally to Restore Historic pre-Holocaust Synagogue

 

Polish campaigners desperately seeking additional support saying that unless matching funds are found soon, the Krasnik synagogue restoration project is at risk.

By Michael Freund

 

The European Union has awarded a grant to a Warsaw-based Jewish organization to restore an historic synagogue compound in the Polish town of Krasnik, but campaigners say the project may be cancelled if additional matching funds are not raised within the next two months.

Inside the historic Krasnik Synagogue – Photo: FODZ

The Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland, known by its Polish acronym FODZ, was awarded nearly $2 million by the EU, “but the grant was given on condition that we raise another $650,000 in matching funds,” said FODZ president Monika Krawczyk, who was visiting Jerusalem this week. Continue Reading »

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| December 30, 2013
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20 years later, the U.S. returns Auschwitz barracks to Poland

 

Unable to extend the loan of half of historic structure to Holocaust Museum in Washington, its return was finally achieved this week.

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Officials at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp museum say half a historic barracks that was on loan to the United States has been returned to Poland after two decades and long negotiations.

Auschwitz Barracks - Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Auschwitz Barracks – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

 

The barracks was at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, which wanted the lease extended. But Polish regulations passed in 2003 allow only five-year loans and Poland asked for its return soon after. Following years of negotiations, the Holocaust Museum agreed in October to return it. Continue Reading »

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| December 13, 2013
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Chagall masterpiece among Munich stash believed looted from Latvian Jews by Nazis

A Marc Chagall masterpiece was identified in the art trove hidden in a Munich flat, was stolen by Nazis from a Latvian Jewish family.

By JTA

BERLIN – A painting by Marc Chagall discovered in a sensational art trove found in Munich is believed to have been looted by the Nazis from a Latvian Jewish family.

Marc Chagall masterpiece in art trove was stolen from Jewish family by Nazis - Screensgot: lostart.de

Marc Chagall masterpiece in art trove was stolen from Jewish family by Nazis – Screenshot: lostart.de

According to the German newspaper Bild, evidence was uncovered that the painting from the collection hidden for decades by the reclusive Cornelius Gurlitt, 80, may have been looted during the Nazi invasion of the former Soviet Union in 1941.

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| December 3, 2013
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Jerusalem asks Berlin to return stolen Nazi loot to Jewish hands

 

Deputy FM Zeev Elkin urges Germany to donate all Jewish-owned art from a trove discovered in Munich in 2012 to Jewish or Israeli museums if owners or heirs can’t be found.

Jerusalem asks to join German investigation into the discovery of 1,400 works of art seized by the Nazis.

By The Associated Press & Israel Hayom Staff

 

Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Zeev Elkin has urged Germany to give any Jewish-owned art from a trove discovered in Munich to Jewish or Israeli museums if heirs are not found.

Otto Griebel’s “Kind am Tisch” (“Child at a table”), which was among the more than 1,400 works of art seized by German authorities in a Munich apartment in February 2012 – Photo: AP

He said Israel has requested to join the German investigation into the roughly 1,400 artworks found in the apartment of a reclusive Munich collector last year. Continue Reading »

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| November 25, 2013
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Awareness campaign opens 4 investigations into Nazi war criminals in Germany

Operation Last Chance will bring aging war criminals to justice.

The response to the ad campaign — with the slogan “Late but not too late” proves that the poster struck a very strong nerve in German society.

By JTA

 

BERLIN — At least four investigations of possible Nazi-era war criminals have been turned over to German investigators in recent months.

Operation Last Chance Poster: Late, but not too late

Operation Last Chance Poster: Late, but not too late

The alleged Nazi war criminals were identified following an awareness campaign by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

“Operation Last Chance II,” launched in 2011 and expanded Monday with a new poster campaign, has yielded hundreds of calls and emails from around the world, said Efraim Zuroff, the organization’s chief Nazi
hunter.

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| November 25, 2013
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Victim of Looted Nazi Art: Authority’s Handling is ‘Scandalous’

Interview reveals Germany refuses to return all the looted works, publicize what was found or maintain transparency.

By AFP and Arutz Sheva Staff

 

A granddaughter of German painter Otto Dix, a few of whose works were discovered in the vast trove of Nazi-looted art stashed in a Munich flat, has called Germany’s approach to the Third Reich’s spoils “scandalous,” AFP reports.

Stolen artwork seized by Nazis – Photo: Reuters

“Germany, generally speaking, has never really addressed the issue of works of art seized by the Nazis. It should have done that much earlier, soon after the war,” Nana Dix told AFP in a telephone interview from her Munich home.  Continue Reading »

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| November 11, 2013
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Nazi-looted art found in Munich had Goebbels as past owner

 

Newly reported document reveals pieces from the discovered collection in Munich was sold by Hitler’s propaganda minister for a symbolic price. Goebbels reportedly received 4,000 Swiss Francs for some 200 pieces of art.

By Ynet

More details are emerging in the affair of the 1,406 pieces of stolen art found last week in a Munich apartment.

Contract for sale of Jewish-owned artwork by Joseph Goebbels from Bild's report (Photo: Bild)

Contract for sale of Jewish-owned artwork by Joseph Goebbels from Bild’s report – Photo: Bild

A document published Sunday by the German paper Bild proved that more than 200 of the pieces in the collection, that are worth nearly a billion dollars, were sold in 1940 to an art dealer named Hildebrand Gurlitt by Joseph Goebbels – Hitler‘s propaganda minister – for only 4,000 Swiss Francs. Continue Reading »

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| November 9, 2013
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Obama: 75th Kristallnacht anniversary – what silence in face of hatred can bring

 

US president: We must denounce anti-Semitism & intolerance, stand up to indifference, and re-commit ourselves to combating prejudice & persecution wherever it exists.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
 

 

US President Barack Obama marked the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht on Friday, saying that the 1938 pogrom in which Nazis burned synagogues and murdered Jews across Germany serves as an example of what silence in the face of hatred can bring.

A sticker simulating broken glass on a shop window in Berlin to mark 'Kristallnacht' anniversary

A sticker simulating broken glass on a shop window in Berlin to mark ‘Kristallnacht’ anniversary – Photo: REUTERS

“I join millions of people in the United States and around the world in marking the 75th anniversary of the tragedy of Kristallnacht – “the Night of Broken Glass,” Obama stated. Continue Reading »

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