Exhibit recalls Jewish refugees and Nazi prisoners held together in Canadian...
VANCOUVER, Canada (JTA) -- When Austrian and German Jews escaped Nazism by fleeing to Britain during the 1930s, the last thing they expected was to find themselves prisoners in Canada, interred in...
View ArticleHidden WWII photos inspire doc
BOSTON — Matthew Nash’s grandfather only mentioned the photographs to him once.Twenty-five-years later, they are the subject of a new documentary on the Holocaust that Nash spent three years making...
View ArticlePolish nationalists defend historian who blamed Jews for Holocaust
JTA — Leaders of a Polish nationalist movement said a historian’s claims that Jews helped perpetrate the Holocaust were “factual” and “necessary.”The historian who made the claims, Krzysztof Jasiewicz,...
View ArticlePeter Eisner: Pope Pius XI's Last Crusade
Peter Eisner, a veteran foreign correspondent, has been an editor and reporter at the Washington Post, Newsday and the Associated Press. Source: Huffington Post Source URL:...
View Article‘Branko: Return to Auschwitz’
April 15 marks the 68th anniversary of Branko Lustig’s liberation from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp when he was not quite 13 years old. In this Op-Doc video, we follow Mr. Lustig back to Poland...
View ArticleFrancis to 'open files on Hitler's Pope'
Rabbi Abraham Skorka, who has known the Argentine former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio for 20 years, said he had discussed the role of Pius XII – the man long dubbed as "Hitler's Pope"– at length with...
View ArticleAdam Chandler: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Adam Chandler is the editor of The Scroll. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Salon, Haaretz, the Jerusalem Post, the Huffington Post, and elsewhere. He tweets @allmychandler.After a week of warm...
View ArticleMarci Shore: The Jewish Hero History Forgot
Marci Shore, an associate professor of history at Yale University, is the author of “The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe.”SEVENTY years ago today, a group of young...
View ArticleHolocaust museum hits 20th anniversary
Today marks the 20-year anniversary of the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Called “a living memorial to the Holocaust,” and hailed as groundbreaking, its unsparing...
View ArticleSirens Blare In Honor of Warsaw’s Jewish Insurgents
A small part of the chasm in Polish-Jewish relations closed on Friday, when, to commemorate the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, alarm signals sounded across the city. Until now, sirens have sounded on...
View ArticleHollywood conservative unmasked as Holocaust revisionist
To those who knew him, or thought they knew him, he was a cerebral, fun-loving gadfly who hosted boozy gatherings for Hollywood's political conservatives. David Stein brought right-wing congressmen,...
View Article93-year-old 'Auschwitz guard' arrested
A 93-year-old man who was deported from the US for lying about his Nazi past was arrested by German authorities on Monday on allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, Stuttgart...
View ArticleBulgarian street-naming request in DC stirs broader debate over country’s...
WASHINGTON — A request by the Bulgarian Embassy to name a Washington intersection after a favorite native son — a man credited with helping save the country’s Jewish population from deportation — has...
View ArticleOver 100 Holocaust scholars urge Obama: Cancel invite to Sudan delegation
Washington, D.C. - One hundred and seven leading Holocaust and genocide scholars from around the world have sent a letter of protest to President Obama, urging him to cancel a planned visit to the...
View ArticleIsraeli Holocaust memorial seeks to preserve memory of the 6 million victims,...
REHOVOT, Israel — With a hand on her chest, 82-year-old Rivka Fringeru battled back tears as she reeled off a list of names she has rarely voiced in the past 70 years: her father, Moshe, then her...
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The Real Story of the MS St. Louis
The MS St. Louis in Havana. Credit: Wiki Commons.Critics of Franklin Delano Roosevelt often use the ship the St. Louis as an emblem of FDR’s alleged indifference toward the Holocaust. In Hollywood’s...
View ArticleA salute to the 'British Schindler' as he turns 104
Nicholas Winton is famous because he did not turn over the page. While many British people tut-tutted when they read about the plight of Jews in central Europe under the Nazis in late 1938 and then...
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Was Joseph Kennedy Really an Anti-Semite?
Credit: Wiki Commons.Was Joseph P. Kennedy, the father of President John F. Kennedy, really an anti-Semite?David Nasaw, Kennedy's recent biographer, defined an anti-Semite, for the purposes of his book...
View ArticleBoruch Spiegel, Fighter in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Dies at 93
Boruch Spiegel, one of the last surviving fighters of the Warsaw ghetto uprising of 1943, in which a vastly outgunned band of 750 young Jews held off German soldiers for more than a month with crude...
View ArticlePolish history professor dismissed for blaming Jews for Shoah
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Polish historian Prof. Krzysztof Jasiewicz [not to be confused with the anthropology professor of the same name at Washington and Lee University, to whom he is not related] was...
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