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| November 5, 2013
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Jewish group: German officials guilty in concealing Holocaust art for 2 years

 

German gov’t says it was only informed “several months ago” about the private art collection estimated at over 1 billion euros that was seized in early 2011.

Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany: “We demand the paintings be returned to their original owners,”

By News Agencies & Israel Hayom Staff

German authorities are investigating a huge art find reported to include hundreds of works seized by the Nazis and considered missing for decades, officials said Monday, but a Jewish group accused the German government of moral complicity in the concealment of the stolen paintings following the revelation that authorities failed for two years to report their discovery.

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| November 4, 2013
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German Police Recover 1500 Paintings Stolen by Nazis

Nearly 1,500 priceless works of art that were stolen by the Nazis have been discovered by German Police in a flat in Munich.

By Elad Benari

 

Nearly 1,500 priceless paintings, including works by Picasso and Matisse, that were stolen by the Nazis have been discovered in a flat in Munich, a news report said Sunday, according to AFP.

The German weekly Focus reported that police came upon the paintings during a 2011 search in an apartment belonging to the octogenarian son of art collector Hildebrand Gurlitt, who had bought them during the 1930s and 1940s.

The search was carried out because the son, Cornelius Gurlitt, was under suspicion for tax evasion, Focus said. Continue Reading »

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| November 3, 2013
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eBay removes Holocaust memorabilia found listed on its site

 

Britain’s Mail reports: Internet auction site eBay, removes 30 items, then offers to donate 25,000 pounds to charity over the inappropriate listing.

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EBay has removed from its listings around 30 items of memorabilia purportedly from the Nazi Holocaust, including what was described as clothes worn by concentration camp victims, after a newspaper investigation discovered they were on sale on the e-commerce website, Britain’s Mail reported on Sunday.

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Nazi-era Jewish identification badge. – Photo: AP

The newspaper said its reporters found a range of items on the site over the past week, including what was presented by the vendor as a complete Auschwitz uniform worn by a Polish baker who perished in the Nazi death camp. Continue Reading »

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| September 26, 2013
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FARS Reports: CNN ‘Misquoted’ Rouhani’s Holocaust Remarks

Iran’s FARS news agency says CNN “added to or changed parts” of President Rouhani’s remarks in his interview and that he never said the words “Holocaust” or “reprehensible.”

By Gil Ronen

 

 

Official Iranian news agency FARS said Thursday that CNN misrepresented Iranian President Hasan Rouhani’s statements in an interview with the network’s Christiane Amanpour, saying the network added the words “Holocaust” and “reprehensible” to its translation.

CNN’s Amanpour – Reuters

“The CNN aired its interview with Rouhani on Tuesday but the news channel added to or changed parts of his remarks when Christiane Amanpour asked him about the Holocaust,” FARS said. Continue Reading »

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| September 25, 2013
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Iranian President: Holocaust a ‘Reprehensible’ Crime Against Jews

The new Iranian president Rouhani, admits the Holocaust took place, tells CNN it was a “reprehensible and condemnable” crime against the Jewish people.

By Elad Benari

 

Iran’s new president admitted on Tuesday that the Holocaust took place, in a sharp contrast to his predecessor.

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani – Reuters

Speaking to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the Nazis committed a “reprehensible” crime against the Jewish people.

The remark came in response to Amanpour’s question if he accepted that the Holocaust occurred.

“I am not a historian and when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust it is the historians that should reflect,” he said. Continue Reading »

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| September 12, 2013
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Spain’s Parliament vote on Holocaust Studies being obligatory

According to Wednesday’s report in Spain’s El Pais daily, the country’s ruling People’s Party submitted a proposed amendment to the education law for approval by Spain’s lower House.

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Spain’s parliament is set to vote on an amendment that would make Holocaust studies obligatory for Spanish students.

A session of the Spanish Parliament, Madrid, Spain, August 2013.

A session of the Spanish Parliament, Madrid, Spain, August 2013. – Photo: AP

Spain’s ruling People’s Party recently submitted the proposed amendment to the education law for approval by Spain’s lower house, according to a report Wednesday in the El Pais daily.

If passed, the proposed amendment would introduce the genocide of Jews by Nazi Germany into the curriculum “at various stages of basic education,” the Spanish news agency Europa Press reported Thursday. Continue Reading »

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| September 5, 2013
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Obama goes to Swedish synagogue on Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year)

U.S. President compares the heroism of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, and a need to save lives in Syria now.

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U.S. President Barack Obama joined Jewish leaders and relatives of Raoul Wallenberg, who is credited with saving at least 20,000 Jews during the Holocaust at the Great Synagogue of Stockholm. A Swedish diplomat serving in Budapest, Hungary, Wallenberg risked his life to issue protective passports and shelter Jews in Swedish diplomatic buildings.

President Barack Obama and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt

President Barack Obama and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, center standing, listen to Nina Lagergren, 92, center, seated, as they look over the personal possession of Raoul Wallenberg.

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| July 30, 2013
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Peres attends opening of Latvia museum dedicated to rescuers of WWII Jews

President Shimon Peres & Latvian President Andris Berzins attend opening ceremony at the Riga museum.

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President Shimon Peres took part in a ceremony marking the opening of a museum in Latvia dedicated to a couple who saved some 50 Jews from extermination.

The museum in downtown Riga, Latvia’s capital, is located next to the property once owned by Zanis Lipke, a port worker who together with his wife hid Jews in an underground pit measuring some 9 square meters.

Peres at Riga Holocaust museum.

Peres, center, and Berzins, left at the Zanis Lipke Memorial in Riga, June 30, 2013. – Photo: AP

 

The three-story museum resembles an overturned ship and is designed to give visitors a claustrophobic sense of life in a tiny bunker. Continue Reading »

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| July 28, 2013
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Dutch teens visit Nazi transit camp in effort to rid anti-Semitism from schools

After 63  years, organizers add the Holocaust’s Kamp Westerbork to the annual high-school cycling trip’s itinerary for first time in effort to instil empathy & understanding about the Holocaust.

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Some 150 teenagers from The Netherlands visited Westerbork, a transit camp for Holocaust victims, in an activity designed to combat recent expressions of anti-Semitism in the city’s schools.

Participants of the Fietsvierdaagse (Four day bicycle tour) ride their bicycles in Drenthe

Participants of the Fietsvierdaagse (Four day bicycle tour) ride their bicycles in near Kamp Westerbork on July 23, 2013. – Photo: AFP

The youths from the eastern Netherlands city of Arnhem arrived at Kamp Westerbork on bicycles on July 25 carrying white roses provided to them by the organizers of the activity, which was planned in cooperation with the Jewish community of Arnhem. Continue Reading »

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| July 14, 2013
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Ugly Anti-semitic phone message facilitates restoration of Holocaust boat

After a conservator of the Houston Holocaust Museum received a disturbing voicemail he posted it on YouTube. That encouraged donation, and now the boats restoration is possible.

 

A 1943 vintage Danish fishing boat which rescued Danish Jews during the Holocaust is in the process of being moved and restored, ironically enough, thanks to an anti-Semitic phone call.

Screenshot – Fox News

The boat had been deteriorating for a while, but since the museum doesn’t charge for admission, raising money for a restoration project wasn’t exactly easy–until conservator Braeden Howard received an “obscene anti-Semitic” phone call and posted the anonymous diatribe on YouTube.

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| July 11, 2013
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Nazi officer’s grandson returns books stolen 70 years ago

After Christoph Schlegel finds books that were stolen from a Jew during the Holocaust at his grandmother’s house, his search to return them leads him to Moshe Hofstadter, in Israel, the surviving son of the books’ owner.

By Yori Yalon

 

Four books stamped with his name, the only tangible keepsake that Moshe Hofstadter has of his father Abraham, who was murdered by the Nazis, were returned to him in a moving ceremony at Yad Vashem on Wednesday.

Avraham Hofstadter (ז”ל), who was killed in the Holocaust – Photo Courtesy of Yad Vashem

The return of the books marked the culmination of an unusual sequence of events.

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| June 17, 2013
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Italian activist killed for saving Jews is candidate for sainthood

 

The Roman Catholic church beatifies Odoardo Focherini, declared a Righteous Gentile by Israel in 1969, saved about 100 Jews during the Holocaust.

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An Italian Catholic activist and journalist who was declared a Righteous Gentile for saving Jewish lives during World War II has formally been put on the road to sainthood by the Roman Catholic church.

The Cathedral of Carpi, Duomo, located in the hometown of Ordoardo Focherini.

The Cathedral of Carpi, Duomo, located in the hometown of Odoardo Focherini. Photo by Wikpedia Commons

 

Odoardo Focherini was beatified – the step before sainthood – at a ceremony Saturday in his hometown of Carpi, near Modena in northern Italy. Continue Reading »

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| June 12, 2013
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Auschwitz youth center to receive $1.3 million donation from Volkswagen

Volkswagen, which used concentration camp prisoners during the Holocaust, says work at site is an ‘important undertaking’ for staff & company.

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Volkswagen said Tuesday it was donating $1.3 million to the Auschwitz International Youth Meeting Center.

Volkswagen Type 82E

Volkswagen Type 82E Photo by Wikipedia Commons

The automaker made the announcement at a meeting at the company’s headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany.

Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn said in a statement that the money will be used for educational work and modernization of the facility.

He said Volkswagen has been involved with the center, an educational site located next to the Nazi death camp in Poland, for more than 20 years. Continue Reading »

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| June 12, 2013
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Almost seven decades later, Holocaust memorials continue to proliferate.

Hardly an unusual sight in big American cities, but Holocaust museums & memorials are cropping up almost 70 years after WWII, in more out-of-the-way places like Terre Haute, Ind. or Alexandria, La.

 

 

NEW YORK (JTA) — No earth was moved last month at the groundbreaking of one of the nation’s newest Holocaust memorials.

The CANDLES Holocaust museum in Terre Haute, Ind.

The CANDLES Holocaust museum in Terre Haute, Ind.

Instead, the gatherers stood silently, symbolic shovels in hand, on the immaculate lawn where the privately funded $400,000 monument will soon rise. A succession of speakers delivered somber homilies remembering one of the darkest chapters in human history.

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| June 7, 2013
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Israeli director debunks Nazi Jewish soap myth

The claim, based of Polish antisemitic slogans, that soap was produced from Jewish bodies, simply plays into the hands of the deniers of the Holocaust, who can easily prove that nothing of the kind ever happened…even though the Nazis were more than capable of this atrocity.

 

 

An Israeli film maker who is admittedly “obsessed” with the Holocaust is finally putting to rest the myth that the  urban myth that the Nazis used the remains of Jewish bodies to create bars of soap.

Remembering the Holocaust

“Soaps,” a new film by director Eyal Ballas, 43, finds that the soap myth originated in World War I, when Germans were rumored to be turning bodies into the cleaning product.

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