Holocaust

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…

Israeli film students won a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) award on Friday at the annual Yugo BAFTA Student Awards for 2022, nabbing the accolade in the Live Action category for their film “Girl No. 60427.” The film, by students Shulamit Lifshitz and Oriel Berkovits from the…

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AP — Ukrainian therapist Svitlana Kutsenko thought she was making progress with her patients — army veterans recovering from mental trauma suffered during fighting with Russia in 2014. Then, war erupted again. Now, five months after Russia invaded Ukraine, Kutsenko says the situation looks bleaker than ever. Many of her…

Best-selling author Stephen King was hoodwinked by Russian pranksters into thinking he was in a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. During the call, he praised Stepan Bandera, one of the architects of the Holocaust. Popular pranksters Vovan and Lexus spoke with King and appeared to convince King to offer…

‘Appalled at the deliberate attack on remembrance,’ memorial foundation says seven beeches were severed, one of which commemorated children killed at the Nazi camp By AP 21 July 2022, 11:43 am Edit BERLIN — The Buchenwald concentration camp memorial says that seven trees dedicated to the memory of victims of…

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz. Photo / AP Teachers gave heart-wrenching testimony on Wednesday in the penalty trial of Nikolas Cruz, with one recalling how a boy in her Holocaust studies class correctly answered a question seconds before he became one of 17 people murdered during the…

Published July 18, 2022 1:49am PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron warned against antisemitism and historical revisionism on Sunday as he commemorated victims of the Holocaust on the 80th anniversary of the Vel d'Hiv roundup of Jewish families. On July 16-17, 1942, around 13,000 people were taken to the Winter…

Biden and Israel's caretaker prime minister, Yair Lapid, held a joint news conference and were pressed on divisions between the two countries. The U.S. and Israel launched a partnership on emerging technologies Thursday.Biden met with Yair Lapid, who recently became Israel's acting prime minister.Biden also met with former Prime Minister…