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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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Despite Nazi similarities, Bard College decides to stay with Al-Quds

Bard College in New York, says it will maintain affiliation with Al-Quds despite Nazi style rally held by Islamic Jihad.

By HENRY ROME

 

The US university with the closest ties to Al-Quds University, Bard College in New York, has announced it will continue its partnership, despite two other American colleges severing ties with the Palestinian school.

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Ward Manor Bard College – Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

The decision by Bard – announced late on Friday in a statement to The Jerusalem Post – came only days after Brandeis University and Syracuse University formally ended their ties with Al- Quds, after a rally held by Islamic Jihad on the Al-Quds campus, which its president, Sari Nusseibeh, did not initially condemn. Continue Reading »

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| November 19, 2013
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Brandeis U cuts partnership with Palestinian university after its Nazi-style rally

 

Brandeis University found Palestinian demonstrators cheerfully waving Nazi flags & offering traditional Nazi salute as the reason for the suspension.

By JTA

 

 

Brandeis University has suspended its partnership with the Palestinian Al-Quds University.

Brandeis University - Courtesy

Brandeis University – Courtesy

Brandeis University President Frederick Lawrence made the announcement Monday, saying the university will re-evaluate the relationship in the future. The universities have been sister institutions since 1998.

The decision was made in light of recent events at the university, which has campuses in Jerusalem, Abu-Dis and Al-Bireh, including a November 5 Nazi-style demonstration at the main campus.

During the demonstration, protesters marched in black military gear with fake automatic weapons while waving flags and offering the traditional Nazi salute.

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| November 9, 2013
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Calls for boycott from the EU mar the 75th Anniversary of Kristallnacht

This year, the 75th Anniversary of the pogroms against Jews, their homes, businesses & their synagogues, will be marked by, yes, you guessed it – new calls from Europe to boycott  Jewish businesses!

By Tomas Sandell

 

As Europe prepares to mark the 75th Anniversary of Kristallnacht this weekend, there will be a certain sense of déja vu in the air. Earlier memorials have been characterised by emotional speeches and complex analysis as to how Kristallnacht could have come about in the first place. This year, the 75th Anniversary of the pogroms against Jews, their homes, their businesses and their synagogues, will be marked by – you guessed it – new calls to boycott  Jewish businesses! 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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| 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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| October 29, 2013
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NY court awarded $900k to delivery man for supervisors’ gas chamber gags

Adam Wiercinski’s managers were heard to say ‘you smell like Jew’.

The New York Post reported Monday that the jurors decided it was time for payback.

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A New York jury has awarded a Jewish deliveryman $900,000 in damages for the anti-Semitic harassment he endured at the restaurant where he worked, The New York Post reported Monday.

Mangia, the Manhattan restaurant where Adam Wiercinski worked.

Mangia, the Manhattan restaurant where Adam Wiercinski worked. – HAARETZ

According to the report, Adam Wiercinski was subjected to highly offensive gestures and remarks made by the supervisors at the Manhattan eatery, Mangia.

One night shift manager, Artur Zbozien, would often pass gas and then joke about Zyklon B, the cyanide-based pesticide used in Nazi gas chambers during the Holocaust. Continue Reading »

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| October 14, 2013
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2 Turkish students arrested for Nazi salute in concentration camp

The Turkish students, who saluted Israeli youths, could face up to 3 years in Polish prison for ‘promoting fascist propaganda’.

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Two students from Turkey were arrested in Poland for using a Nazi salute on a group of Israeli students visiting the Majdanek concentration camp.

Majdanek

A joint Israeli-Arab youth delegation visits the Majdanek concentration camp, Poland, January 23, 2012. – Photo Courtesy of Amal

The Turkish students were taken into custody in Poland. The incident last week was reported in the Turkish media on Friday, according to Today’s Zaman.

The students reportedly made the Nazi salute and said “Heil Hitler” when they met a group of students from Israel. Continue Reading »

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| October 8, 2013
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Israeli PM: Mufti Demanded Nazis ‘Wipe Out’ 4,000 Children

Israel’s Prime Minister’s Bar Ilan speech, in which he stresses Palestinian leader’s “important” role in the extermination of Europe’s Jews.

 

Full text included.

By Arutz Sheva

 

Prime Minister Binymain Netanyahu delivered a speech Sunday evening at Bar Ilan University’s Begin-Sadat Center, in which he discussed the key security-diplomatic issues facing Israel: the Iranian threat and the attempts to reach an accord with the Palestinian Authority.

Unlike Netanyahu’s first speech at the same venue in 2009, a speech in which he voiced acceptance, for the first time, of a demilitarized “Palestinain state,” in this speech Netanyahu made clear that the problem preventing peace is “the profound objection by the hard core of Palestinians to the right of the Jewish people to its own country in the Land of Israel.” Continue Reading »

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| October 7, 2013
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Netanyahu points out Palestinian Leadership to Nazis

In a somewhat calm but powerful and frank speech, Prime Minister tells students the conflict with Palestinians began in 1921 and not in 1967.

By Gil Ronen

 

In a surprisingly powerful and frank speech at Bar Ilan University, delivered in a calm and almost informal manner, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tied between the Palestinian national movement and the Nazi regime in Germany.

At the heart of the oration was the determination that Arab rhetoric notwithstanding the “territories” and “settlements” are not the heart of the territorial conflict between Jews and Arabs – but that the conflict stems from the historic refusal of the Arabs to accept a Jewish state. Continue Reading »

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| September 24, 2013
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Dutch filmmaker digs up Bavarian soil for hidden Nazi gold

 

Dutch filmmaker begins multiple excavations based on ‘code’ found in the melody & words of old Nazi song.

3 times he dug into Bavarian soil, so far no gold.

By Ynet

 

The quiet life in a German village near the Austrian border was recently interrupted – by a series of archaeological excavations and treasure hunters. The person responsible for this is a Dutch filmmaker who claims to have deciphered a map that leads to a cache of Nazi gold – a map he says is hidden in the musical notes written on a page.

Is there a hidden map to Nazi gold?

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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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| April 30, 2013
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Hungarian activist attacked by racist soccer fans ahead of Jewish Congress

After arguing with a group of supporters chanting a Nazi slogan, Ferenc Orosz, chairman of the Raoul Wallenberg Association, says he was assaulted at a local soccer match just days before Hungary is due to host the World Jewish Congress.

By Reuters

 

The head of a Hungarian anti-racism group said far-right soccer fans shouted “Sieg Heil” and attacked him, breaking his nose days before the country is due to host the World Jewish Congress.

Supporters of Hungary's far right Jobbik party.

Supporters of Hungary’s far right Jobbik party march in protest of the government’s economic policies in Budapest, Hungary, May 12, 2012. Photo: AP

Ferenc Orosz, chairman of the Raoul Wallenberg Association, told Reuters he was assaulted after arguing with a group of supporters chanting the Nazi slogan at a match between the Hungarian teams Videoton and Ferencvaros in Budapest on Sunday. Continue Reading »

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