Copyright row over Anne Frank diary to heat up ‘unauthorized’ publication

The Foundation says that Otto Frank, who founded the Anne Frank Foundation, is one of the creators of the diary, a claim that if true would allow for a copyright extension of 35 years. The battle over just who owns the right to publish The Diary of Anne Frank, the

Ten Holocaust Survivors recognised by Queen in New Year’s Honours

TEN HOLOCAUST survivors have been honoured by the Queen for their work in spreading awareness about the horrors of the Nazi era. Zigi Shipper, Susan Pollack, Ivor Perl, Lilly Ebert, Chaim Ferster, Jack Kagan, Freddie Knoller, Rudy Oppenheimer, Rene Salt and Agnes Grunwald-Spier are all included in the New Year’s

Holocaust Council obtains survivor’s art

Nine paintings by a Lithuanian survivor of the Shoa are now in the possession of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ, thanks to a gift from the Hofstra University Museum on Long Island. Barbara Wind, director of the Holocaust Council of Greater MetroWest, arranged for the federation to acquire

Amsterdam to Halt in Memory of Strike Over Nazi Persecution of Jews

In 1941, tram drivers objected to roundup of Jewish men, and a rare public show of disobedience spread across the city. Tram traffic in the Dutch capital will grind to a halt in commemoration of a general strike orchestrated 75 years ago in protest of Nazi persecution of Jews. Amsterdam’s

Holocaust denial on the rise in Eastern Europe

After Lithuania changed the definition of ‘genocide’ and Baltic countries have turned murderers of Jews into national heroes, Holocaust researchers are accusing the State of Israel of standing idly by as history is being re-written. The testimonies are fading away, the memorial sites are turning into entertainment centers, and the

Opening of Holocaust era archives may shed light on French collaboration with Nazis

Holocaust historians this week welcomed Paris’s decision to open up the records of the Vichy regime, a puppet government set up by the Germans during the Second World War, stating that the newly accessible documents may shed light on the nature of French collaboration with the Nazis. During the war

How Hitler’s PERSONAL photographer captured for history the plight of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland

She has such natural beauty, she could pass for a movie star. She smiles, her demeanour relaxed. In normal times, this young woman would surely have enjoyed a bright and happy future, perhaps with a  husband, children, grandchildren. But soon after this photograph was taken, she would face almost certain

Growing Up Absurd in Auschwitz

An immersion in Auschwitz during the mass murder frenzy of October 1944, when the gassing of Hungarian Jews had been nearly completed, Son of Saul—a first feature by the French-Hungarian director László Nemes—is not a movie to recommend lightly. It is also, as a fictional film that depicts, in what

The Fake Diamond Ring That Saved Jews From the Nazis

Inside a tiny box in a temperature-controlled, locked cabinet at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, there is a ring. It is not particularly beautiful, and in purely monetary terms, it is not particularly valuable. But behind this ring is a beautiful story of survival of Jews living under Nazi

German cinema rediscovers Nazi hunter Fritz Bauer

BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — With two new films, German cinema has rediscovered the country’s fiercest Nazi hunter, former prosecutor Fritz Bauer, honoring a man who fought against post-war amnesia about the Holocaust. A Jewish atheist and Social Democrat who spent time in a Nazi concentration camp before going into war-time