Munich police fatally shoot a man they believe was planning to attack the Israeli Consulate
Police in Munich have exchanged fire with a gunman near the Israeli Consulate in Munich, fatally wounding him.
Floats at Germany's Carnival parades satirize leading political figures
Throngs of revelers have taken to the streets of Germanyโs Carnival strongholds along with floats that satirized the Ukrainian and Russian presidents, German politicians, former U.S. President Donald Trump and many others.
Argentina shuts down a publisher that sold books praising the Nazis. One person has been arrested
Argentinaโs Federal Police have shut down a publisher that sold books that praised Nazi ideology, seized hundreds of texts and arrested one person as part of what authorities characterized as a โhistoric seizureโ of Nazi propaganda.
Catholic-Jewish research backs reports Catholic convents sheltered 3,000-plus Roman Jews during WWII
Researchers have discovered new documentation that substantiates reports that Catholic convents and monasteries in Rome sheltered Jews during World War II.
Auschwitz museum criticizes use of death camp in politics after ruling party uses it in political ad
The Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial museum has denounced a political spot by Polandโs ruling party that uses the theme of the Nazi German extermination camp to discourage participation in an upcoming anti-government march.
Newly discovered photos show Nazi Kristallnacht up close
Harrowing, previously unseen images from 1938โฒs Kristallnacht pogrom against German and Austrian Jews have surfaced in a photograph collection recently donated to Israelโs Yad Vashem memorial.
Nazis show up outside Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Tampa
A Holocaust center in Florida and others condemned the presence of protesters holding Nazi flags and posters with antisemitic imagery outside a convention of young conservative activists that drew as speakers President Donald Trump, Florida Gov, Ron DeSantis and several Republican U.S. senators.
Germany: 101-year-old appeals conviction in Nazi guard case
A German court says that a 101-year-old man who was convicted last week as an accessory to murder for serving as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II has appealed.
Detective interviews suspect after Jewish UCF student attacked at neo-Nazi rally
Months after three men were arrested and accused of attacking a Jewish victim during a Nazi rally in Orange County, the sheriffโs office released video interviews with one of the suspects claiming he did not commit a hate crime.
Sen. Bracy highlights funding efforts supporting Jewish community after Nazi rallies
Nearly a week after antisemitic demonstrations took place in Orange County, Florida Sen. Randolph Bracy is highlighting funding efforts to help protect the Jewish community in Central Florida.
Charges pending against at least 3 involved in Orange County antisemitic attack, sheriff says
Charges are forthcoming against three people believed to have instigated an antisemitic attack involving a vehicle, Orange County Sheriff John Mina announced Tuesday at a news briefing.
Nazi rallies in Central Florida spark outrage
More than a dozen self-proclaimed Nazis yelled antisemitic slogans outside a Central Florida shopping plaza and waved a swastika flag from a highway overpass before authorities broke them up.
EU leaders worried by rise in antisemitism, Holocaust denial
European Union leaders are pledging on the eve of the annual commemorations of Auschwitzโs liberation to keep fighting the antisemitism and Holocaust denial that has gained traction across Europe during the pandemic.
German FM: Diplomats shared blame for Holocaust
Germanyโs foreign minister says that the countryโs diplomats during the Nazi era shared blame for the Holocaust and she wants more training for staff to speak up against all forms of discrimination.
UN approves resolution condemning denial of Nazi Holocaust
The U_N_ General Assembly has approved an Israeli-sponsored resolution condemning any denial of the Holocaust and urging all nations and social media companies โto take active measures to combat antisemitism and Holocaust denial or distortion.โ.
Rome church condemns swastika-draped casket at funeral
The Catholic Church in Rome is strongly condemning a funeral procession outside a local church in which the casket was draped in a Nazi flag and mourners gave the fascist salute.
Vendor sells Nazi gear at Biketoberfest in Daytona Beach
A vendor at a major motorcycle rally in Florida briefly sold hats emblazoned with Nazi symbols, saying she considered them a tribute to World War II veterans who helped defeat the Germans.
Memorial for Babi Yar victims inaugurated in Ukraine
The presidents of Ukraine, Israel and Germany have inaugurated a memorial for the victims of the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine eight decades after one of the most infamous Nazi mass slaughters of the Holocaust.
Graffiti in English and German found on Auschwitz barracks
Police and prosecutors in southern Poland are investigating graffiti in English and German that appeared on multiple buildings at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, the site of the former Nazi German death camp.
German court sets trial date for former Nazi guard, aged 100
A German court has set a trial date for a 100-year-old man who is charged with 3,518 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he served as a Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp on the outskirts of Berlin during World War II.
Germany's Laschet attends WWII revolt observances in Poland
Germany's center-right candidate to replace Angela Merkel as chancellor in the country's September election says he feels โdeep shame and humilityโ over Nazi Germany's โcrimesโ against the Poles during World War II.
Germany drops probe of former Nazi guard deported from US
FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 27, 2020 file photo people walk behind the writing 'Holocaust' during the international Holocaust remembrance day in the former the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany. Friedrich Karl Berger, a 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, was deported to his native Germany on orders from a Tennessee court. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file)BERLIN โ German prosecutors said Wednesday that they have dropped an investigation of a 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard after he declined to be questioned following his deportation from the United States. Friedrich Karl Berger arrived in his native Germany in February after being ordered deported by a court in Memphis last year. The Memphis court found, however, that Berger had helped guard prisoners during a forced evacuation that took nearly two weeks and claimed the lives of 70 people.
3 Russian military pilots killed when ejection seats accidentally activate
(AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool)MOSCOW โ Three members of a Russian bomber's air crew died Tuesday when their ejection seats accidentally activated during preflight checks, the military said. The Russian Defense Ministry said the incident happened at an airbase in the Kaluga region, about 145 kilometers (90 miles) southwest of Moscow. It said the crew of a Tu-22M3 long-range bomber was preparing for a training mission when its ejection system malfunctioned and accidentally shot the crew out. Russian news reports said the fourth crew member survived the incident and was hospitalized. About 60 are estimated to remain in service with the Russian air force, and some have flown bombing missions to strike militants in Syria from their bases in Russia.
Germany: Nazi guard deported from US agrees to be questioned
Authorities say the 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard deported from Tennessee has agreed to be questioned by German prosecutors as they re-examine whether there is enough evidence against him to bring charges. Berger arrived Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021, in Frankfurt on a special flight from the U.S. after being ordered deported to his native Germany by a court in Memphis last year. (U.S. Department of Justice via AP)BERLIN โ A 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard deported from Tennessee has agreed to be questioned by German prosecutors as they re-examine whether there is enough evidence against him to bring charges, authorities said Monday. A U.S. immigration judge ordered Berger deported a year ago after finding that his โwilling service as an armed guard of prisoners at a concentration camp where persecution took placeโ constituted assistance in Nazi-sponsored persecution. The Memphis court found, however, that Berger had helped guard prisoners during a forced evacuation that took nearly two weeks and claimed the lives of 70 people.
Putin signs extension of last Russia-US nuclear arms treaty
Russia and the United States exchanged documents Tuesday Jan. 26, 2021, to extend the New START nuclear treaty, their last remaining arms control pact, the Kremlin said. The Kremlin readout of a phone call between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin said they voiced satisfaction with the move. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a bill extending the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the United States a week before the pact was due to expire. Both houses of the Russian parliament voted unanimously Wednesday to extend the New START treaty for five years. After both Moscow and Washington withdrew from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 2019, New START is the only remaining nuclear arms control deal between the two countries.
Russian parliament OKs New START nuclear treaty extension
Russia and the United States exchanged documents Tuesday Jan. 26, 2021, to extend the New START nuclear treaty, their last remaining arms control pact, the Kremlin said. The Kremlin readout of a phone call between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin said they voiced satisfaction with the move. Both houses of parliament voted unanimously to extend the New START treaty for five years, a day after a phone call between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden indicated during the campaign that he favored the preservation of the New START treaty, which was negotiated during his tenure as U.S. vice president. After both Moscow and Washington withdrew from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 2019, New START is the only remaining nuclear arms control deal between the two countries.
'We owe this to them': Shoah survivors in vaccine spotlight
โWe owe this to them,โ said Erika Jakubovits, who organized the capital vaccination drive for the Jewish Community of Vienna. In a similar project to that in Vienna, the Jewish community of Bratislava in Slovakia also vaccinated Holocaust survivors on Wednesday. Because Israel's vaccination campaign has moved so quickly, officials said there was no need to single out Holocaust survivors. Still, about 900 Holocaust survivors died of COVID-19 in Israel last year before vaccines were available and about 5,300 survivors were infected, according to Israel's national statistics office. With World War II having ended more than three-quarters of a century ago, the worldโs approximately 240,000 Holocaust survivors are all elderly.
Auschwitz survivors mark anniversary online amid pandemic
Most observances were held online, due to the coronavirus pandemic, and only few people attended the ceremony at the monument. In Israel, some 900 Holocaust survivors died from COVID-19 out of 5,300 who were infected last year. Israel, which counts 197,000 Holocaust survivors, officially marks its Holocaust remembrance day in the spring. Meanwhile, Luxembourg signed a deal agreeing to pay reparations and to restitute dormant bank accounts, insurance policies and looted art to Holocaust survivors. Of the 6 million Jewish victims, some 1.5 million were children, and this year's commemorations included a special focus on them.
Holocaust survivors honored with online event amid pandemic
An annual event bringing together Holocaust survivors from around the world to mark the start of Hanukkah was held online for the first time Sunday Dec. 13, 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)BERLIN โ An annual event bringing together Holocaust survivors from around the world to mark the start of Hanukkah was held online for the first time Sunday due to the coronavirus pandemic. The event organized by the Jewish Claims Conference also paid tribute to those killed by the Nazis and raised awareness of anti-Semitism. Among the survivors who spoke was Walter Breindel, who fled Austria at the age of four with his mother and brother. โHopefully next year it will not be a memory but we shall be together in reality,โ he said.
Germany bans far-right, pro-Nazi group; Police raid homes
BERLIN โ More than 180 police officers raided homes in three German states early Tuesday after the German government banned a far-right group, the interior ministry said. The homes of 11 members of the far-right group Wolfsbrigade 44 were searched in Hesse, Mecklenburg West-Pomerania and North Rhine-Westphalia to confiscate the group's funds and far-right propaganda material, the German news agency dpa reported. The far-right group, founded in 2016, is also known for its anti-Semitic and racist ideology as well as its violent and aggressive appearances in public and on social media. Earlier this year, the German government banned other far-right groups including the Combat 18 and the Nordadler, dpa reported. โThere isn't any room in the military for enemies of the constitution,โ Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said in a statement.
Facebook bans Holocaust denial, distortion posts
The decision comes amid a push by Holocaust survivors around the world who lent their voices to a campaign targeting Zuckerberg beginning this summer, urging him to take action to remove Holocaust denial posts from the social media site. The group tracked more anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. last year than at an any time over the past four decades, and has said it continues to find Holocaust denial groups on Facebook, some hidden and most private. Facebook said Monday it would immediately begin removing Holocaust denial posts from Facebook and Instagram, which it owns, but it could take some time to train the company's technical systems and human moderators to enforce it on a global scale. Several other groups that had pushed for Facebook to take a stricter line on Holocaust denial said Monday's move was an important step. โFacebook is showing that it recognizes Holocaust denial for what it truly is โ a form of antisemitism and therefore hate speech,โ Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, said in a prepared statement.
IOC apologizes, deletes tweet about 1936 Berlin Olympics
GENEVA The IOC apologized on Friday and deleted a Twitter message which some saw as celebrating Nazi Germanys hosting of the 1936 Olympics. We apologize to those who feel offended by the film of the Olympic Games Berlin 1936, the IOC wrote on Friday. The official museum at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp added its reply to the IOC in the message thread on Friday. Owens taught a resounding lesson to the Nazi regime, shattering its despicable fascist claims of racial superiority, the IOC wrote on Friday. Brundage, the IOC president for 20 years until 1972, has long been criticized for racist views and being a Nazi sympathizer at the Berlin Olympics where he led the United States team.
Supreme Court agrees to hear Nazi art case
WASHINGTON โ The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a case involving the descendants of a group of Jewish art dealers from Germany who say their ancestors were forced to sell a collection of religious art to the Nazi government in 1935. A lower court allowed the case to go forward, but Germany asked the Supreme Court to weigh in. The justices also took a case involving Hungarian nationals suing Hungary over property taken from them during World War II. In the case involving Germany, the group of people who sued are descendants of art dealers who in 1929 together bought a collection of religious artworks from the 11th to 15th centuries known as the Guelph Treasure. An appeals court in Washington allowed the case to go forward in 2018.
Putin hails Nazi defeat in virus-delayed Red Square parade
Russian sailors march toward Red Square during the Victory Day military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the Nazi defeat in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 24, 2020. The Victory Day parade normally is held on May 9, the nation's most important secular holiday, but this year it was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Mikhail Voskresenskiy, Host Photo Agency via AP)
Piero Terracina, Rome Jew who survived Nazi death camp, dies
ROME โ Piero Terracina, described as the last survivor among the Roman Jews who were deported from the Italian capital to Nazi death camps during World War II, has died at 91. But a few months later, as his family marked Passover in April 1944, he was arrested and deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camps with his family, where his parents, three siblings and other relatives perished. On Jan. 19, 1945, Terracina was forced to march, along with other remaining prisoners at the Birkenau camp, by Nazi officers. Jewish students in public schools, including Terracina, were expelled. This year a police escort was assigned to another Holocaust survivor among Italian Jews, Liliana Segre, who received death threats and hundreds of anti-Semitic insults.