Former concentration camp guard, 93, gets suspended sentence as accessory to murder of 5,230
by Toby Axelrod BERLIN (JTA) – In likely one of the last such trials, a 93-year-old former concentration camp guard was given a two-year suspended…
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Friends Of Simon Wiesenthal Center For Holocaust Studies: Halton Police Agree that Vandalism to Nazi Monument Is Not a Hate Crime
Toronto (July 17, 2020) – Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) commends Halton Regional Police Service (HRPS) for changing its direction today with regards to their…
Why Victory Day is Important for Holocaust Survivors and War Veterans from Russia
by Greg Storozhakov (AJNews) – For many of the Jewish people who emigrated from the former Soviet Union recently or many years ago, the victory…
‘Remembrance is constantly evolving’: This year’s Yom Hashoah Holocaust memorials are forced online by the coronavirus
by Toby Axelrod (JTA) — For more than three decades, thousands of teenagers from dozens of countries have trekked each April to Auschwitz to learn…
I cover anti-Semitism on a daily basis. This is why ‘The Plot Against America’ is the scariest show I’ve seen.
By Gabe Friedman (JTA) — I wasn’t expecting HBO’s “The Plot Against America,” David Simon’s miniseries adaptation of the Philip Roth novel, to scar me…