The Mossad Mission to Capture Architect of Holocaust
On May 11, 1960, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was nabbed by a team of Israeli spies after years on the run in Argentina, ending a long manhunt.
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Neo-Nazi Provocations on the Rise in Germany
From swastikas sprayed on the walls to Hitler salute selfies, far-right provocations are a growing problem at the sites of former Nazi concentration camps in Germany.
Read moreRestitution
A federal court in Washington denied the Hungarian government’s motion to dismiss a suit brought by 14 of nearly 825,000 Hungarian Jews subjected to the “horrors of the Holocaust at the hands of the Hungarian government.” The plaintiffs seek restitution for property seized from them during World War II.
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Vatican Opens Archive on Pope’s Silence During Holocaust
Historians will begin combing the archives of the world’s most contentious modern pope on Monday, hoping to glean why Pius XII stayed silent during the Nazi extermination of Jews in the Holocaust.
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World Leaders Rally in Jerusalem Against Anti-Semitism
Dozens of world leaders descended on Jerusalem Thursday for the largest-ever gathering to commemorate the Holocaust and combat anti-Semitism — a politically charged event that has been clouded by rival national interpretations of the genocide.
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Survey Finds Gaps in Americans’ Holocaust Knowledge
A poll released Wednesday shows that while most Americans have a general knowledge of the Holocaust, fewer than half of those surveyed knew how many Jews were murdered and how Adolf Hitler came to power.
Read moreCourt Rules Holocaust Denial Not Protected by Rights Law
Settling a years-long dispute, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that denying the Holocaust happened is not protected expression under Europe’s human rights convention.
Read moreHeirs of Holocaust Victim Prevail in Art-Recovery Case
In a ruling with profound expected consequences for the German-Austria art scene, an appeals court cleared the way Tuesday for the heirs of a Jewish cabaret performer murdered in the Holocaust to recover two paintings from a British collector.
Read moreGermany Returns Painting Looted by Nazis to Jewish Heirs
German authorities say they’ve returned a painting looted by the Nazis, which surfaced in the collection of a reclusive Bavarian collector, to the heirs of its Jewish owner.
Read moreDutch Railway Company to Pay Reparations for WWII Transports
Dutch national railway company NS says it will pay reparations to Jews, Roma and Sinti whom it transported to camps in the Netherlands during World War II — from where they were sent to Nazi concentration camps.
Read moreHungarian Pogrom
Hungary failed Wednesday to secure a Supreme Court detour in the suit it faces from Holocaust survivors whose property was stripped from them as they boarded trains destined for concentration camps.
Read moreFor Victims of a Little-Known Genocide, a Long Journey to Justice
How — and where — should victims collect reparations for a genocide? In New York, an effort to hold present-day Germany responsible for what is grimly called the first genocide of the 20th century hit a setback.
Read moreBritish Jews Apply for German Nationality as Brexit Looms
Simon Wallfisch grew up in London as the grandson of an Auschwitz survivor, who had sworn to never return to the country that murdered her parents and 6 million other Jews. But more than 70 years after the Holocaust, Brexit has prompted Wallfisch and thousands of other Jews in Britain to apply for German citizenship, which was stripped from their ancestors by the Nazis during the Third Reich.
Read moreJewish Rights Group Urges Croatia to Ban Pro-Nazi Book
A Jewish human rights group has urged Croatian authorities to ban a book that denies crimes committed by Croatia’s World War II pro-Nazi regime.
Read moreGermany to Compensate Hundreds Who Fled Nazis as Children
Germany has agreed to one-time payments for survivors, primarily Jews, who were evacuated from Nazi Germany as children, many of whom never saw their parents again, the organization that negotiates compensation with the German government said Monday.
Read moreFrench Court Rules Pissarro Painting Belongs to Jewish Heirs
A Paris appeals court has confirmed a ruling ordering an American couple to return a Camille Pissarro painting to the descendants of a Jewish family that owned the art work before it was seized during World War II.
Read moreRenoir Unveiled in NY at Emotional Repatriation Ceremony
A painting seized by the Nazis during World War II was returned to its rightful owner Wednesday at a repatriation ceremony in lower Manhattan.
Read morePoland’s Jews Welcome Change to Holocaust Law
The head of the Jewish community in Poland says the government’s decision to scrap controversial criminal provisions in a Holocaust speech law will help restore Poland’s relations with the Jewish diaspora, with Israel and with the United States.
Read morePoland Marks 75th Anniversary of Uprising in Warsaw Ghetto
People in Warsaw pinned paper daffodils to their clothes as the Polish capital held a day of commemorations Thursday on the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Read moreHeirs to Holocaust Victims Lose Battle Against French Railway
A federal judge ruled that descendants of Holocaust victims accusing France’s national railway of looting property from tens of thousands of Jews bound for concentration camps must bring their case before a French commission before suing in U.S. court.
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