Holocaust

Twitter has been sued in Germany by an anti-hate-speech organization and Jewish students to force Elon Musk’s social media platform to block or remove antisemitic posts. Six examples of antisemitic comments detailed in the suit were all posted in the last three months, since Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion,…

A Florida woman has been arrested for defrauding an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor of nearly $3 million, authorities announced Wednesday. Peaches Stergo, 36, of Champions Gate, Florida, has been charged with one count of wire fraud after allegedly coercing millions from an unnamed Manhattan man between 2017 and 2021. "The defendant…

ByErin Blakemore Published January 27, 2023 • 13 min read Six million Jews murdered. Millions more stripped of their livelihoods, their communities, their families, even their names. The horrors of the Holocaust are often expressed in numbers that convey the magnitude of Nazi Germany’s attempt to annihilate Europe’s Jews. The…

(RNS) — David Schaecter is 93 and he is running out of time. He has dedicated the past 60 years to recounting his struggle for survival in Auschwitz, his escape and how he pieced his life together in the United States after losing his entire family in the Holocaust. As…

The work, unveiled during Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Brussels, quotes from Yad Vashem’s art collection. (January 26, 2023 / JNS) The European Parliament building in Brussels now has its first-ever Holocaust memorial—a reproduction of Felix Nussbaum’s 1939 oil painting “The Refugee” from Yad Vashem: The World Holocaust Remembrance…

The company did not remove anti-Jewish, including Holocaust-denying, content, say the plaintiffs. (January 26, 2023 / JNS) A lawsuit filed in Germany—where Holocaust denial is illegal—accuses Twitter of failing to sufficiently police antisemitic tweets. The suit, which the European Union of Jewish Students and nonprofit HateAid filed jointly in a…

R ISHI SUNAK promised yesterday at Prime Minister’s Questions that his Government would build a Holocaust memorial and learning centre “next to Parliament”. While the pledge is admirable, it will take more than words. The idea of a memorial centre in Victoria Tower Gardens has been around for over a…

For many decades following World War II, the Jewish Councils appointed by Europe’s Nazi occupiers have been blamed for allegedly collaborating in the Holocaust. However, in a newly published transnational and comparative study, Dutch historian Laurien Vastenhout demonstrates that Jewish Councils had virtually no ability to alter Germany’s plans to…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Jewish group that commissioned a survey on Holocaust awareness in the Netherlands said Wednesday that the results showed “a disturbing lack of awareness of key historical facts about the Holocaust,” prompting calls for better education in the nation that was home to diarist Anne…

Whoopi Goldberg Apologizes For Holocaust Views ... 'I'm Still Learning' 12/27/2022 3:39 PM PT Whoopi Goldberg is rolling out a much-needed apology ... after making claims about the Holocaust that many found incredibly antisemitic. Whoopi offered her "sincere apologies" Tuesday, telling Rolling Stone, "It was never my intention to appear…