Oving Architecten shrouds concentration camp house in glass as a memorial to the holocaust

The former home of an SS commander at Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, the Netherlands, has been enclosed within a giant glass vitrine by Dutch studio Oving Architecten. Intended as a memorial to the second world war, the large glass box creates a vitrine-like enclosure around the clapboard residence of SS commander

US Holocaust museum to collect items for time capsule

WASHINGTON – The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is seeking messages and personal artifacts from Holocaust survivors for a time capsule to be opened on the museum’s 50th anniversary in 2043. The capsule will be on display in the museum’s David and Fela Shapell Family Collections and Conservation Center in Bowie,

University of Oklahoma Will Return Camille Pissarro Painting to Holocaust Survivor

Camille Pissarro, Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep (1886). Photo: Courtesy the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma. After a three-year legal dispute, the University of Oklahoma (OU) has agreed to return Camille Pissarro‘s 1886 painting La Bergère Rentrant des Moutons (Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep) to French Holocaust survivor Léone Meyer.

Anne Frank’s father Otto’s lost letters reveal Holocaust survivor’s ‘other Anne’

A worldwide quest to find the letters of Anne Frank’s father, Otto Frank, has revealed that an Australian woman became his unlikely confidante after he survived the Holocaust.Young people from all over the world who had been touched by his daughter’s plight wrote to Otto Frank after the publication of

Austrian parliament nixes event honoring pro-Hamas, anti-Israel Jew who fled Nazis

The spokeswoman for the president of the Austrian parliament informed The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that an event slated to honor Hedy Epstein – an anti-Zionist Jew and defender of Hamas – has been canceled. “In consideration for the concerns against some of the participants, the Austrian Parliament has cancelled

Duchess Camilla Expresses ‘Pride’ Over UK’s Treatment of Holocaust Survivors

Britain’s Duchess of Cornwall said on Tuesday she is proud of how the country has taken care of Holocaust survivors and refugees who escaped Nazi persecution, Britain’s Jewish News reported. Camilla, 68 — the second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales (who was first married to the late Lady Diana) — visited the Holocaust Survivors Centre (HSC)

We owe it to the victims to convict elderly Nazis

OPINION: Karl du Fresne’s recent op-ed (What is gained from convicting elderly Nazis?, February 19) is hardly pleasant reading for a person like myself who has devoted the last 35 years to facilitating the prosecution of Nazi war criminals, but he does raise several legitimate points that deserve to be

Holocaust Denier and Nazi Sympathizer Buried in Arlington National Cemetery

A U.S. soldier wounded in World War II who later became an outspoken Nazi sympathizer and Holocaust denier was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Willis Carto, who died at 89 in October, was interred at the military cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday, the Huffington Post reported. He founded the

Film Alone in Berlin: How Ordinary Germans Defied Hitler

It’s very strange to be at the Berlin Film Festival, watching a film that is set in Berlin, which has Berlin in its title… and to hear all of the actors speaking in English. What makes it even stranger is that Alone in Berlin is all about someone writing postcards,

Oberlin Professor’s anti-Semitic Posts Are ‘Personal Views,’ Says College

In response to an article revealing that an Oberlin College professor made numerous postings about Jews and Israel to Facebook, the liberal arts college’s president said the college “respects the right of its faculty, students, staff and alumni to express their personal views.” Marvin Krislov’s statement came after The Tower