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A 92-year-old Kindertransport survivor has a warning about Trump
A 92-year-old Kindertransport survivor has issued an urgent call to put a stop to the politics of division before it’s too late, warning that the world has “learnt nothing” from the atrocities committed in Nazi Germany. Speaking ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day, Austrian-born Harry Bibring, who arrived in Britain on the Kindertransport in 1939, said he was deeply “concerned” about the state of the world and feared for the future of his great-grandsons.
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Poland’s parliament wants to criminalize the term ‘Polish death camps’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu protested a bill passed by the lower house of the Polish parliament which would make it illegal to use terms such as “Polish death camps” to refer to the camps set up by the Nazis. “The law is baseless; I strongly oppose it,” Netanyahu said in a statement Saturday. “One cannot change history and the Holocaust cannot be denied. I have instructed the Israeli Ambassador to Poland to meet with the Polish Prime Minister this evening and express to him my strong position against the law.”
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New Holocaust law threatens 'whitewash' of Polish history
The Polish parliament has passed a new Holocaust law. Historians say it threatens to whitewash the country's past.
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Poland's President Says He Will Sign Controversial Holocaust Bill Into Law
Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday that he will sign a contested Holocaust bill into law, despite protests from Israel and the United States. The measure imposes prison sentences of up to three years for mentioning the term “Polish death camps” and for suggesting “publicly and against the facts” that the Polish nation or state was complicit in Nazi Germany’s crimes.
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'Monopoly of the holocaust:' Polish presidential adviser attacks Israel
An adviser to Poland's president has said he thinks Israel's negative reaction to a law criminalizing some statements about Poland's actions during World War II stemmed from a "feeling of shame at the passivity of the Jews during the Holocaust". Andrzej Zybertowicz, a Nicolaus Copernicus University sociology professor who also serves as a presidential adviser, called Israel's opposition to the new law "anti-Polish" and said it shows the Mideast country "clearly fighting to keep the monopoly on the Holocaust."
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Poland's premier: There were Polish perpetrators in the Holocaust just as there were Jewish ones
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Saturday that the Holocaust had Polish perpetrators, just as it had Jewish ones. Moraweicki made the statement at the Munich Security Conference in response to a question by Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman regarding the controversial law that criminalizes mentioning the Polish nation's complicity in the Holocaust. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sharply rebuked the 'outrageous' remarks.
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Polish Jews stunned, scared by eruption of anti-Semitism
Matylda Jonas-Kowalik has spent most of her 22 years secure in the belief that she would never know the discrimination, persecution, or violence that killed or traumatized generations of Polish Jews before her. She once thought the biggest problem that young Jewish Poles like herself faced was finding a Jewish boyfriend or girlfriend in a country dominated by Catholics.
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British woman investigated for Holocaust denial in Germany
German police are investigating a British woman for suspected incitement after she questioned the Holocaust during a far-right protest in the eastern city of Dresden. A spokeswoman for Dresden police says Australian-born Michele Renouf is one of two people being investigated for remarks made at a neo-Nazi rally Saturday commemorating those killed in the 1945 Allied bombing of the city.
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US Jewish group withdraws Holocaust video offensive to Poles
A prominent Jewish-American foundation removed a video from YouTube which had sparked outrage in Poland and beyond on Wednesday with its provocative use of the historically inaccurate term "Polish Holocaust" to protest a controversial new Polish law criminalizing some comments about the Holocaust.
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Memory Laws and Nationalist Lies
Memory laws emerged in Western Europe’s old democracies as a means to promote reconciliation after World War II. Now, such laws have become one of the preferred instruments of populists attempting to consolidate their own power – and to incite the very xenophobic nationalism that provided fertile soil for the Holocaust. By Nikolay Koposov.
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She Survived the Holocaust, to Die in a 2018 Hate Crime
An 85-year-old woman who as a child narrowly escaped France’s most notorious wartime roundup of Jews has been murdered in Paris, and the authorities are calling it a hate crime. The body of the woman, Mireille Knoll, was found on Friday in her apartment in the city’s working-class 11th Arrondissement. She had been stabbed to death, and her body was partly burned after her attackers apparently tried to set fire to the apartment.
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ICE Won’t Deport the Last Nazi War Criminal in America
He confessed to being a concentration-camp guard—and was stripped of his citizenship. But the U.S. government still won’t kick him out of the country.
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Holocaust Is Fading From Memory, Survey Finds
Thirty-one percent of respondents believed that two million or fewer Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and 41 percent didn’t know what Auschwitz was.
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4 in 10 millennials don't know 6 million Jews were killed in Holocaust, study shows
NEW YORK -- More than one-fifth of millennials in the U.S. -- 22 percent -- haven't heard of, or aren't sure if they've heard of, the Holocaust, according to a study published Thursday, on Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day. The study, which was commissioned by The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and conducted by Schoen Consulting, also found that 11 percent of U.S. adults overall haven't heard of the Holocaust or aren't sure if they did.
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Christians and Jews to march in memory of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Polish Council of Christians and Jews organised the march which will be led by Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich, Catholic Bishop Rafał Markowski and Reformed Evangelical Church Pastor Michał Jabłoński. The march will start at the Monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Heroes and end at Umschlagplatz, the site from Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto were transported to Nazi German death camps.
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Abbas says Jews’ behavior, not anti-Semitism, caused the Holocaust
In rambling speech, PA president gives a 'history lesson' in which he tries to negate Jewish connection to Israel, accuses Zionists of cooperating with Hitler. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday said that the Holocaust was not caused by anti-Semitsm, but by the “social behavior” of the Jews, including money-lending.
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How Ewa Kurek, the Favorite Historian of the Polish Far Right, Promotes Her Distorted Account of the Holocaust
In public events across America, including one attended by a U.S. Congressman, the formerly respected scholar Ewa Kurek accused rich Jews of plotting with the Nazis to kill their poor brethren and argued that the ghettos were voluntary
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When Abbas spews anti-Semitic vitriol the response is thunderous. Not so much for Poland's prime minister
When Holocaust denial is treated differently depending on which world leader utters it, politics has trumped history and remembrance. By Lev Golinkin.
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Claude Lanzmann, Epic Chronicler of the Holocaust, Dies at 92
His obsession with the Nazi genocide brought forth “Shoah,” a film recognized as both an important historical record and an original work of art.
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My grandfather wasn’t a Nazi-fighting war hero — he was a brutal collaborator
A deathbed promise led to me discovering his complicity in the Holocaust — and what it means beyond my family
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