Holocaust

JERUSALEM: Israel and Germany today condemned remarks by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Berlin, where he compared the Holocaust to the Jewish state’s killings of Palestinians. Abbas, standing beside Chancellor Olaf Scholz yesterday, was asked if he would apologise on behalf of the Palestinian militants who carried out the 1972…

BERLIN, Aug 17 (Reuters) - The German chancellery summoned the head of the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Berlin on Wednesday to protest Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' comparison of Israeli actions with the Holocaust, a German government spokesperson said. "It is clear for us, the government and the chancellor, that the…

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday walked back the widely condemned accusation he made a day earlier that Israel had committed “50 holocausts” against Palestinians, claiming he had merely been intending to highlight Israeli “crimes.” Abbas’s remarks, made during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz voiced disgust on Wednesday at remarks by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that the German leader said diminished the importance of the Holocaust, while Israel accused Abbas of telling a “monstrous lie.” “For us Germans in particular, any relativisation of the singularity of the Holocaust is intolerable…

When producer Matti Leshem first brought me the script for The Survivor, I had a visceral reaction and knew I had to make the film. In part it was because I had known members of my own family who had survived the Holocaust, and I had seen its effects on…

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A mural that was painted in a Vermont synagogue more than 100 years ago by a Lithuanian immigrant — and hidden behind a wall for years— has been termed a rare piece of art and has been painstakingly moved and restored. The large colorful triptych painted…

Zofia Posmysz, a Polish radio journalist on assignment in Paris, was crossing the Place de la Concorde in 1959 when she heard from among a group of tourists a voice that shattered the beauty of the scene. The speaker, a woman, was German. Briefly — excruciatingly — Ms. Posmysz thought…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (RNS) — At a seminar for schoolteachers on teaching the Holocaust, instructor Donna Tarney rolled through a list of antisemitic tropes about Jews throughout history. In the Middle Ages, Jews were accused of poisoning wells and using human blood to make matzo. In the early 20th century, automaker…

Soccer team Maccabi Haifa F.C.  was in Athens, Greece for a UEFA Champions League qualifier match it won 4-0 against Olympiacos F.C. on Wednesday, but a team delegation first spent time with members of the city’s Jewish community. Senior officials of Maccabi Haifa F.C. visited the two synagogues of Athens…

Ken Burns told me that during the seven years he worked on his forthcoming three-part documentary, "The U.S. and the Holocaust," he struggled with the "opacity" of the unfathomable fact that 6 million Jews were killed by Germany during World War II. So the legendary documentarian said he opens with…