Holocaust

New York Jewish Week via JTA — In January of 1943, Irma Lauscher, a teacher at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, smuggled a tree into the camp so that the Jewish children imprisoned by the Nazis could celebrate Tu B’Shevat in a secret ceremony. The children used their water…

A Calgary police officer is currently relieved from duty with pay for failing to adhere to the service's COVID-19 vaccination policy — and officials are looking into his role in posting a video on social media while in uniform, opposing the mandate and drawing comparison with the Holocaust and Hitler's…

Facebook made $780,000 selling ads with violent and anti-vaccine messages, CNN's Donnie O'Sullivan reported. It boosted at least four ads for shirts that compared vaccines to the Holocaust. The pages running the ads have fewer than 10,000 followers, but the ads reached around 1 million people each. Loading Something is…

Childhood best friends Ana María Wahrenberg and Betty Grebenschikoff said goodbye to each other in a German schoolyard in May 1939. Now the school pals, who were separated aged just nine when their Jewish families were forced to flee the Nazis, have hugged each other in person once again after…

GLASGOW, United Kingdom — The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby apologized on Monday for suggesting that the impact of climate change would be worse than Nazi genocide. Welby, the most senior cleric in the Church of England and leader of the worldwide Anglican communion, made the comments in an interview…

In a grassy patch of public park in central Warsaw last week, archaeologists dug up a rusted metal coat hook and the tangled chain of a decayed necklace. The objects couldn't be more ordinary. Or more extraordinary.  The team excavated them from the buried rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto, where…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas labor leader on Friday compared President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates to the Holocaust that killed millions of Jews, and a top Republican lawmaker seemed to agree with the comparison. Kansas state Rep. Brenda Landwehr, R-Wichita, talks with staff as Sen. Renee Erickson, left,…

Bristol Rovers manager Joey Barton has apologised after he compared a player's performance to the Holocaust at the weekend. His side lost 3-1 to Newport County in League Two on Saturday and in a post-match interview with a group of reporters he said a player had a “holocaust”. “I said to…

Bristol Rovers manager Joey Barton has apologised for his 'holocaust' comment after the side's loss to Newport and said "the use of the analogy was not correct". After Rovers' 3-1 defeat last Saturday, Barton said about his team's defence: "I said to the lads during the week, the team's almost…

The remains of the IDF’s first fallen paratrooper, Pvt. Martin Davidowicz, were repatriated to Israel from the Czech Republic for burial on Wednesday, and he was laid to rest on Thursday. The coffin was flown in an IAF transport plane and was escorted by a joint delegation of the Defense…