• 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

  • Students at Canada’s McGill University Reject BDS Motion

    Students at Montreal’s McGill University failed to ratify a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions motion against Israel. In online voting last week by undergraduates, the motion was rejected 2,819-2,119 (57 percent to 43 percent), with 440 abstentions. It had passed in the university’s student society on February 22 by a vote

  • Sacred scrolls that survived Holocaust reunited after more than 50 years

    The last time they were all together was more than five decades ago, shortly after they were rescued from a damp, dark warehouse in Prague. The group ended up at Westminster Synagogue in London, where they were given a new lease on life. After a short stay, most of them

  • Jesse Owens, a Film Hero Once Again

    More than any other athlete of his era, Jesse Owens’s image on film has determined his fate. It all began with those few seconds of the 100-meter dash that Leni Riefenstahl enshrined in her film “Olympia, Part 1”: the close-up on Owens’s face, the white flare of the starting gun,