Obituary: Raul Hilberg

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Raul Hilberg, a world-renowned Holocaust scholar, has died from a recurrence of lung cancer, his wife said. He was 81. Hilberg, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Vermont, died Saturday, said his wife, Gwen. Though he had lung cancer, he never smoked, she said. He died with her at his side at the Vermont Respite House in Williston. Hilberg was the author of The Destruction of the European Jews (1961), a landmark study of the Nazi killings of more than 5 million Jews. He was honored by the German government for his contributions and teaching on

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Obituary: Henri Amouroux

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Henri Amouroux, a French historian who testified on behalf of Maurice Papon at his war crimes trial and wrote several books on the Nazi occupation, has died, news reports said Monday. He was 87. Amouroux died Sunday in Normandy, Le Parisien newspaper and France-Info radio reported. No cause of death was given. Amouroux, who served as president of the history section of the prestigious Academie Francaise, testified at Papon’s 1997 trial for his role in deporting Jews during the World War II. Papon, a former Cabinet minister who became a symbol of France’s collaboration with the Nazis, was convicted of

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New Jersey man urging Italy to open Holocaust archive

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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 letter signed by 42 members of Congress to the Italian Embassy, seeking to open Holocaust-era archives that have been sealed for six decades. The letter, delivered by Mark Hadzewycz, 23, was a culmination of the commission’s

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Romanian named ‘righteous gentile’

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An heartfelt thank you to the Criveanu family. From Jpost: Yad Vashem on Wednesday posthumously honored a Romanian reserves officer who blocked the deportation of Romanian Jews to Nazi death camps. Theodor Criveanu was inducted into Yad Vashem’s “Righteous Among the Nations” group of non-Jews who rescued Jews from the Nazis. His son, Willie Criveanu, accepted the award on his behalf. The 20,000 Jews of Czernowitz, Romania, were interned during the war and slated for deportation to death camps. As a reserves officer in the Romanian army, Criveanu was assigned the task of presenting authorities a list of Jews who

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Nazi war criminal held in Canadian jail

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A cowardly convicted Nazi war criminal living in Canada was in jail this weekend after an appeals court upheld an extradition order from Italy, where he was convicted in absentia. Michael Seifert, the so-called “Beast of Balzano,” was sentenced to life after being found guilty in 2000 of nine counts of murder, committed during his term as an SS guard at the Bolzano prison transit camp in northern Italy. The Italian government alleged the 83-year-old Seifert beat, tortured, starved and murdered inmates. People testified that Seifert starved a 15-year-old prisoner to death, gouged out a person’s eyes, beat prisoners before

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Jewish cemetery desecrated in Poland

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A Jewish cemetery in southern Poland has been desecrated with around 100 tombstones daubed with anti-Semitic slogans and Nazi symbols, police said Monday. Police spokesman Adam Gaska said that the perpetrators were believed to be local youths, and that a criminal investigation had been opened in Czestochowa in the country’s south. “Numerous tombstones have been covered with insulting wording or SS symbols, in black paint,” Gaska told Poland’s PAP news agency. The Czestochowa Jewish cemetery was founded in the late 19th century and houses 4,500 graves, including that of the Hasidic spiritual master Izaak Mayer Justman. Few Jewish cemeteries in

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Holocaust memoirs author, Lundholm, dead at 89

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One of Germany’s most prominent Holocaust survivors, Anja Lundholm, whose books recounted the horrors she experienced in a Nazi camp after she was allegedly denounced by her own father, has died aged 89, her publisher said Monday. The Munich-based publishing house LangenMueller said Lundholm died Saturday in Frankfurt. It did not release the cause of death. Lundholm published a series of books written in a chillingly distant tone about her time at the Ravensbrueck women’s concentration camp in eastern Germany, including her 1988 memoir “Hoellentor” (“Hell’s Gate”). As a political dissident and the daughter of a Jewish woman, Lundholm fled

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Films: History of the Jews – free online films

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The website of the Spielberg Jewish Film Archive’s virtual film project, located at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was completed some two weeks ago, and is now online.About 400 films, that depict the history of the Jewish people during the period before the Holocaust, were uploaded. All the films can be viewed, for free: here. The full story of this project can be found here.

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