Non-Jewish Poles don yarmulkes to protest anti-Semitism

On a quiet Thursday evening, Café Foksal in central Warsaw suddenly filled up with about 50 people wearing kippahs. The event was unusual for a city with very few observant Jews and an insignificant number of Israeli tourists. What made it exceptional is that almost none of the yarmulke wearers

YAFFE ELIACH, HOLOCAUST SCHOLAR, REMEMBERED

We sat together, both students of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) in the early 1970s. Even then, Yaffe Eliach, distinguished scholar in Holocaust studies and creator of the Tower of Faces, an exhibit of photographs on permanent display at the United States

This Day in Jewish History 1945: The Nazis Murder a Former Mayor of Berlin

Jewish only in origin, Fritz Elsas had been a good German, but was arrested after the attempt to kill Hitler and died in a concentration camp. On January 4, 1945, Fritz Elsas, a former mayor of Berlin and part of a resistance group planning for a post-Nazi Germany, was executed

Neo-Nazi Calls for Armed White Supremacists to March Against Montana Jews

The man who runs the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer has announced an armed march by white supremacists in an effort to harass a Montana Jewish community. The graphic announcing the march in Whitefish, Montana, that went online Thursday was published over a photograph of the entrance to Auschwitz and

Remembering Holocaust Hero Marion Pritchard

  TRANSCRIPT AILSA CHANG, HOST: We take time now to remember Marion van Binsbergen Pritchard who died this month at the age of 96. During the second world war in her native Holland, she helped more than 150 Jews evade the Nazis. Her son Ivor Pritchard told us how she

The road from perdition: former neo-Nazis find a way out

After years of believing conspiracy theories that explained the perceived injustice they saw around them, as well as their own loneliness, past neo-Nazis are finding the support they need to change their lives and leave their hatred in the past. Felix Benneckenstein was a rising star on Germany’s far-right scene,

Holocaust Survivors Score Victory in Reclaiming Stolen Art

A group of Holocaust survivors and their families notched a crucial victory on Friday, as Congress approved legislation that would make it easier to reclaim art confiscated during World War II. The unanimous vote — which came during a late-night session as the Senate worked to pass a spending bill

Insiders at Google are ‘disturbed’ by its Holocaust search results, and now they’re doing something about it

Google engineers and executives are disturbed by how its algorithm promotes offensive and fake content on the web — such as a Holocaust denial site reaching the top result for certain searches about the Holocaust — and they are doing something about it, search expert and editor of Search Engine

Holocaust Scholar: International community must stop Syria atrocities

Shalev was speaking at the opening of the International Institute for Holocaust Research’s conference titled “The Jewish Refugee Problem During the Shoah (1933-1945) Reconsidered.” World leaders and the global community must implement in Syria the principles they enacted after World War II, the chairman of Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, Avner

Holocaust deniers able to rise to top of Google search results

Stormfront has the dubious distinction, via the Southern Poverty Law Center, of being “the first major hate site on the Internet.” That online longevity has also helped it earn the top spot in Google’s search results when users type “Did the Holocaust happen” into the search field, but it’s Google’s