Hamas-run television in Gaza broadcast a dastardly new version of Holocaust denial on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day – claiming the Jews carried out the genocide to rid themselves of the “disabled and handicapped” among them. On the program, Amin Dabur, head of the Palestinian Center for Strategic Research, lied while stating that “the Israeli Holocaust – the whole thing was a...
German Children Tired of Holocaust
According to Jerusalem Post, the head of the German delegation to an international organization of Holocaust education and remembrance said that German youth are experiencing “Holocaust fatigue”. No doubt. Here is a picture of six-year old Anna and three-year Jon Klein, the children of Aladar Klein who never got the chance to know what “Holocaust fatigue” means. Both...
Reuters Mistake Triggers Israel “Holocaust” Libel
Via National Review: A Reuters mistranslation of remarks by Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai this morning has triggered an international news libel against Israel. Among the news outlets jumping on the bandwagon are those that have previously been accused of deliberately attempting to stir up anti-Semitism through false and inflammatory coverage of Israel. They include several British...
Holocaust Exhibition Opens at UN Headquarters
From Holocaust Exhibition Opens at UN Headquarters: A permanent exhibition depicting saviors of Holocaust victims opened on Jan. 30 at the UN headquarters in New York, part of a week of events around the anniversary of the Jan. 27, 1945, liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, which is designated as a Holocaust memorial day around the world. “The Holocaust message of ‘never...
Holocaust scholar: ‘Jew’ has become curse word among German youth
It will always remain my father’s Europe. And Ha’aretz, the leading left-wing rag out of Israel, will make sure it remains that way. From Holocaust scholar: ‘Jew’ has become curse word among German youth: German schools are failing in educating students about the Holocaust, a new study by a political education center has found, as German youth, who one historian said use...
Holocaust museum opens at Belsen
Germany has inaugurated a museum at the site of the Nazi concentration camp where diarist Anne Frank died. The new museum at Bergen-Belsen, in the north of Germany, highlights the fates of those who died at the camp during World War II. Among the exhibits are the drawings and diaries of Jews imprisoned there, plus video statements by survivors. Some 100 survivors were at the ceremony at the camp...
Press Release: Pakistan and UN Islamic Bloc Slams Holocaust Survivors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Media Relationsmedia1@unwatch.org Geneva, Sept. 28, 2007 — An international coalition of non-governmental organizations today published a protest against a U.N. speech by Pakistan that accused Holocaust survivors of “campaigning against Muslim symbols in the Western world” and that called hatred of Muslims “a cruel form of Anti-Semitism.” The...
Ukrainians Recall Memories of the Holocaust
From NY Sun: From the porch of her mud hut, Vera Filonok saw tens of thousands of Jews shot, thrown in a ravine, and set on fire. Many were still alive, and they writhed in the flames “like flies and worms.” The memories of what she saw in 1941 have seared her soul for six decades, but until recently, she had talked about it with no one except neighbors in her remote Ukrainian village...
Israeli Museum Launches Looted Holocaust Art Database
From Israeli Museum Launches Looted Holocaust Art Database: Israel’s national museum has launched an Internet catalog of more than 1,000 pieces of art looted by the Nazis to allow Holocaust survivors and their heirs to identify and reclaim property. The pieces include drawings, Judaica items and paintings – several of them worth millions of dollars – that were plundered by...
New Jersey man urging Italy to open Holocaust archive
It will enable archivists to determine just how many people were murdered in Italy. How many gypsies were sent to death camps? Which corporations were providing poison gas? How did the people who were carrying out the atrocities distance themselves from what they were doing? From The Daily Record: A Morristown man who is interning with the Helsinki Commission in Washington, D.C., hand-delivered a...