Holocaust

The ashes of a notorious German Holocaust denier were buried last week in a plot that once held the remains of a Jewish music scholar and that still features his gravestone, prompting church authorities to admit Tuesday they had made a mistake that needs to be rectified. Henry Hafenmayer, a…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku, who last year published his best-selling memoir, “The Happiest Man on Earth,” has died in Sydney, a Jewish community leader said. He was 101. “Eddie Jaku was a beacon of light and hope for not only our community, but the world,” New…

On Sept. 11, 2001, the greatest Holocaust film ever made, before or since, premiered at a festival — and quickly disappeared, largely unnoticed.   The film’s cast included Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, David Arquette, Michael Stuhlbarg and Mira Sorvino, and it was written and directed by the acclaimed Jewish actor Tim…

Republican Representative for Georgia Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that an imminent vaccine mandate violated the Nuremberg Code in a series of tweets. Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order requiring federal employees to be vaccinated, and if he does so, the order would not allow an option to…

Kveller via JTA — Rachel Lipman cares deeply about preserving her Jewish family’s fifth-generation winemaking business, Loew Vineyards, but the 28-year-old is keeping an eye on the future, too. As one of the youngest winemakers in Maryland — if not the youngest — she’s pushing through boundaries in a traditionally…

Seven rare ledgers from the 19th and 20th centuries containing records of pre-Holocaust Jewish communal life in what is now Hungary have been removed from public auction and jointly purchased by the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives (HJMA), along with the National Library of Israel (NLI). Among the documents are…

JTA — Last month, Francois Amalega Bitondo was standing on a Montreal street, megaphone and cellphone in hand, protesting against COVID-19 vaccines. A bright yellow six-pointed star stood out against his black T-shirt. The star, which read “unvaccinated,” was an explicit reference to the yellow Stars of David that Jews…

Author of the article: Dalson Chen Publishing date: Sep 03, 2021  •  September 3, 2021  •  10 minute read  •  101 Comments Protesters against Ontario's incoming 'vaccine passport' at Toronto City Hall on Sept. 1, 2021. Photo by Peter J. Thompson /National Post “NO JAB,” declared a sign — one…

(JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit seeking to recognize Jews who suffered under Vichy race laws in Morocco as Holocaust victims entitled to state compensation payments on Thursday, according to a report in Haaretz. A panel of three justices refused to hear the case, upholding a lower court’s…

JTA — Following an international outcry, Amsterdam said its city-owned museum should return a Wassily Kandinsky painting that it had acquired from a Jewish family that was under duress during the Holocaust. Possession of “Painting with Houses,” which is believed to be worth at least $22 million, should be transferred…