Holocaust

August 27, 2021 marks 79 years since the Sarny Massacre, a two-day execution in the Nazi-occupied city of the same name in Ukraine that saw the deaths of some 14,000-18,000 Jews. The city of Sarny, located today in Rivne Oblast in Ukraine, had been part of Poland from 1919 until…

Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie was criticized for tweeting a meme showing an image of a person's wrist tattooed with a concentration camp identification number as a way to oppose coronavirus vaccine mandates.  The tweet was later removed by Twitter or deleted by Massie himself, but screenshots were widely shared by…

“It’s time for us to resist,” Rand Paul says, railing against vaccine and mask mandates, “lockdown measures,” and other pandemic interventions, in a new video making the rounds on social media. “They can’t arrest all of us.” The video, defiantly titled “Do Not Comply,” has more than 105,000 views on…

JTA — Praises for Adolf Hitler were etched on a grave-shaped monument in Poland for Holocaust victims whose bodies were burnt. Meanwhile, in Spain, police arrested a man whom they say was filmed spraying swastika graffiti at the entrance to a synagogue in Madrid, the news Madrid 24 Horas reported…

MONTREAL -- Jewish groups are condemning the appropriation of the yellow stars worn by anti-vaccine passport protesters in Laval on Tuesday and say it points to a lack of awareness and education about the Holocaust. Several protesters were seen wearing the yellow stars outside the Econofitness gym in Laval, which…

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Poland must find a way to justly compensate for property confiscated from victims of the Holocaust, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday night in response to Poland’s new law making restitution nearly impossible. “We deeply regret the adoption of these amendments,” Blinken said. That law, which Polish…

An appellate court in Poland on Monday rejected a lawsuit brought against two Holocaust scholars in a case that has been closely watched because it was expected to serve as a precedent for research into the highly sensitive area of Polish behavior toward Jews during World War II. Poland is…

Poland on Monday said it was examining the option of suspending annual Israeli youth trips to Holocaust memorial sites in the country, amid a major diplomatic crisis between the nations. Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski claimed in a Monday radio interview that “the trips do not take place in…

Singapore’s Israeli embassy shut down a politician’s comparison of the government’s pandemic response to the Holocaust.  The alarming conflation of public health measures with the murder of millions made by Brad Bowyer, a one-time Progress Singapore Party candidate, was untethered from reality, the embassy responded yesterday. “The Holocaust was a…