LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood isn't through yet with chasing after Nazis, or with adapting successful Israeli productions, according to the Hollywood Reporter. George Clooney, hot off his highly praised "The Descendants" and "The Ides of March," has optioned,...
A box of surgical tools owned by the commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp is set to be auctioned. The wooden box of medical instruments going up for sale Feb. 11 belonged to SS Major Anton Burger, who helped turn the camp into a showcase...
BERLIN -- The International Court of Justice in The Hague has overturned an Italian ruling that would have forced Germany to pay a pension to an Italian former slave laborer for the Nazis. The court affirmed international law, which allows citizens...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published February 1, 2012
Maybe something got lost in translation, but the New Jewish Theatre's production of "Way to Heaven" gets bogged down in its effort to give a fictionalized account of the International Red Cross's whitewashed inspection of a notorious Nazi concentration...
A searchable database of Holocaust-era property records has reached more than two million records. Project HEART-Holocaust Era Asset Restitution Taskforce, an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel in cooperation with the government of Israel, says...
PRAGUE—Kazimierz Smolen, an Auschwitz survivor and postwar director of its memorial site, died in the Polish town of Oswiecim where the camp was located. Smolen died on the 67th anniversary of the Nazi camp's liberation, the Associated Press reported....
ATHENS—A Greek-Jewish umbrella group asked a United Nations body to make clear when commemorating Bulgaria's rescue of its own Jews the country's role in the genocide of Greek Jews. "Bulgarians saved their country's Jews in exchange for the Jews of...
Convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk has asked Germany to provide funds for his lawsuit against the online edition of the German tabloid newspaper Bild. Demjanjuk wants some $33,000 to sue the news organization for its allegedly “derogatory...
SYDNEY, Australia—A high-profile Jewish Australian cited the effects of the Holocaust on his family as a driving force in his work to help "end the exclusion" of Australia's Indigenous peoples from the nation's constitution. Melbourne lawyer Mark Leibler,...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 18, 2012
In 1948, the United States government produced a documentary about the Nuremberg war crimes trials to be shown to the German people as part of the de-Nazification effort. But the film, which movingly details the international effort to bring Nazi war...
BERLIN -- An artist’s plans to "recycle" 60,000 copies of a controversial book are too close to Nazi history for comfort, critics say. "This is no ‘art action,’ – it’s an embarrassment that must be prevented," Julius Schoeps, director of the...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 11, 2012
St. Louis attorney Michael Wetmore recalls watching his mother Trudy Hochster Wetmore quietly blessing his son in a German train station before the latter's departure to see a friend in Paris. "She turned around and said ‘The last time I was in this...
