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On a Cold, Dark Oslo Street Corner, Remembering Norway’s Lost Jews
It took 45 minutes for the twelve people to read out the names of 767 Norwegian Jews deported by the Norwegian authorities during the Nazi occupation. By Lene Johansen
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Hungarian couple uncovers last records of murdered Jews in apartment wall while renovating
More than 6,000 pages were found documenting the city’s former Jewish residents. by Sam Sokol Jewish women are rounded up…
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Germany withdraws Eurovision contender after uproar on anti-Semitic, homophobic lyrics
BERLIN – Germany withdrew its contender for next year’s Eurovision song contest on Saturday following a backlash from critics who accuse the R&B artist of using anti-Semitic and…
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Three Roads From Nuremberg
Seventy years to the day after the start of the epoch-defining trials, three Jewish advocates stand above the rest: Jacob Robinson, Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, and Raphael Lemkin By
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How the Nuremberg Trial Bore Witness to the Nazis’ Worst Crimes
On the 70th anniversary of the world’s most famous trial, the prosecutors’ wise approach still offers a lesson for us. SS Major General Jürgen Stroop (center) watches housing blocks burn…
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Even Worse Than We Thought
Thomas Mann believed that all good stories are slow stories….
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Germans Jail ‘Nazi Grandma’
By: Jewish World News Ursula Haverbeck, 87, was sentenced to 10 months in jail and challenged a court to prove that Auschwitz was a death camp.
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Review: The Family of Anne Frank, Made Real by Silence
By: Ken Jaworowski, New York Times The book is famous for its words, yet the silences are the most affecting moments in “The Diary of…
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UN Marks 40 years Since ‘Zionism is Racism’ Resolution
By: Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, Haaretz NEW YORK – Forty years ago, a certain Israeli ambassador named Chaim Herzog couldn’t sleep, and spent the night writing and rewriting an address he planned to…
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