BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published October 31, 2012
Maria Szapszewicz never erased the Auschwitz number tattoo the Nazis had put on her arm, nor did she erase the memories of the Holocaust from her mind. Instead, Mrs. Szapszewicz shared those memories through moving poetry and essays, a published book...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published July 18, 2012
In October 2005, St. Louis attorney, author and Holocaust survivor/escapee Thomas M. (Tom) Singer completed a personal history of his family and their escape from Nazi Germany in the aftermath of Kristallnacht (“The Night of Broken Glass”), which...
BEYOND FRAUD: A JTA SPECIAL REPORT PART I: FROM FARM TO (NEGOTIATING) TABLE NEW YORK (JTA) — The first sign that something was amiss at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany happened to fall on an auspicious date on the Jewish calendar:...
BERLIN –- Does “Mein Kampf” belong in German high schools? With Adolf Hitler’s book due to come out of wraps here in 2015, freed after decades under copyright protection that prevented its publication in Germany, it’s a question that is being...
By Burton A. Boxerman, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 23, 2012
Except for his boss Heinrich Himmler, only Reinhard Heydrich — head of the SS security service and the Gestapo — was so instrumental in the planning and execution of the mass murder of six million European Jews, according to a historian Robert Gerwarth. ...
BRNENEC, Czech Republic—The windows are smashed, the doors stand agape and the keys in the rusting padlocks have not been turned for years. Still, despite the plaster clinging to the crumbling bricks in leprous sheets, the front looks salvageable.The...
By Gerry Kowarsky, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 18, 2012
What would you do if you were imprisoned with a Nazi war criminal, someone who you tried to assassinate during the war? Kazimierz Moczarski found himself in this exact position. As an officer in the Polish resistance, Moczarski avoided capture during...
TRSICE, Czech Republic -- Nearly 70 years after a Czech Jewish family sought refuge from the Nazis by retreating into a nearby forest and relying on non-Jewish locals for help, an American high school teacher has helped erect a permanent monument to their...
Germany’s top appeals court ruled Friday that Deutsches Historisches Museum must return a collection of more than 4,000 posters to the son of Hans Sachs, a Jewish dentist who fled Nazi Germany. The son, Peter Sachs, is a retired airline pilot from Sarasota,...
BERLIN—A new documentary is shining light on Germany’s neo-Nazi music scene and the role it plays in cultivating a violent far-right subculture. The film “Blut muss Fliessen” (Blood Must Flow) looks at the neo-Nazi music scene in Germany, as well...
French authorities have opened an investigation into a Nazi-themed party that led to the firing of a British lawmaker who attended. Aiden Burley, 32, a Conservative member of Britain's House of Commons, was dismissed in December, a week after photos of...
A new grant-giving foundation will provide one-time grants to help improve the quality of life for Holocaust survivors living in the United Kingdom. The Six Point Foundation said it has $6.3 million to assist victims of Nazi persecution or refugees, fugitives...
