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WASHINGTON, D.C. — During the White House Hanukkah Reception in the East Room on Thursday, President Donald Trump celebrated his historic recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city.

A 101-year-old woman who survived the Holocaust and cancer celebrated her birthday by hitting the gym at her assisted living facility.

Eliahu Pietruszka shuffled his 102-year-old body through the lobby of his retirement home toward a stranger he had never met and collapsed into him in a teary embrace. Then he kissed both cheeks of his visitor and in a frail, squeaky voice began blurting out greetings in Russian, a language he hadn’t spoken in decades.

Eight decades ago, Jewish archivists facing death in the Warsaw Ghetto hid a trove of documents they hoped would bear testimony to the sufferings of the Holocaust.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem has for the first time recognized an Arab for the title of “Righteous Among the Nations” over his bravery in rescuing Jews in Nazi Berlin.

The Scaramucci Post, a Twitter account linked to former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, tweeted a poll on Tuesday asking how many Jews were killed during the Holocaust.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday Israel was concerned over a rise in anti-Semitism, after a right-wing nationalist party won seats in Berlin’s parliament.

TEL AVIV – An Iraqi cleric recently said Muslims should imitate the Jewish people and praised them for having emerged from the Holocaust to win the “respect of the world through science,” while Muslims are seen as “the world’s headache.”

BOSTON — Boston University paid tribute to the late Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel on Sunday.

What was it like in a Nazi concentration camp? How did you survive? How has it affected your life since?

Argentina on Tuesday gave Israel thousands of World War II era documents during a visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he says marks “a new dawn” in his country’s relationship with Latin America.

Mossad missed at least two chances to capture Nazi fugitive Dr Josef Mengele, who sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to their death at Auschwitz, a former agent said.

A former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and current Imam of the city’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, who has a long history of anti-Semitic hate speech, is heading to Britain.

Wielding axes, rakes and shears, young European volunteers with sweat on their brows have been sprucing up the continent’s largest Jewish cemetery, a Warsaw site largely neglected since the Holocaust.

A controversial French comic with past convictions for anti-Semitic commentary and Holocaust denial is heading to North Korea next month.

HAIFA, Israel – Eighty years after he missed the Jewish coming-of-age ceremony, 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Shalom Shtamberg celebrated his bar mitzvah on Thursday with his family and friends in the northern Israeli city of Haifa.

French President Emmanuel Macron will include Israel on a whirlwind Middle East trip next spring, in a move designed to help regional peace initiatives and promote a two-state solution.

Japan’s gaffe-prone deputy prime minister Taro Aso on Wednesday retracted comments in which he cited Adolf Hitler, but insisted he did not mean to praise the Nazi leader.

Humboldt University in the German capital lodged a criminal complaint against activists who disrupted a talk by MK Aliza Lavie and an Israeli survivor of the Holocaust in June, a spokesman for the university told The Jerusalem Post on Friday.

A former Dallas school leader, who is black, spoke out this week to defend the city’s historical Confederate monuments and statues amid a national push to remove all reminders after violence erupted at a Charlottesville, Virginia, rally on Saturday.

An American company, KA Designs, is selling T-shirts and sweatshirts with rainbow-colored swastikas on them, re-branding the emblem of hatred as a “symbol of love and peace.”

BERLIN (AP) — A 96-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard who was convicted as an accessory to murder is fit to go to prison, German prosecutors said Wednesday. His lawyer said he will contest their decision.

French President Emmanuel Macron hit out at those who deny France’s direct complicity in the Holocaust, choosing French and Israeli commemorations of a mass deportation of French Jews in World War II to make his stand.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming attendance of a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the “Vel’ d’Hiv” Holocaust-era roundup of French Jews is expected to be met with protests in Paris.

Worse than Bruni’s inflammatory charge, his selective memories or his double standards is his reduction of Jewish Americans to the status of special pleaders rather than citizens — perpetual victims who are presumed to be insulted by every slight, however imaginary.

Holocaust victims and Palestinians were both given moments of silence Tuesday at a United Nations meeting after a Cuban representative objected to a moment of silence for those killed in the Holocaust — amid continued claims that the U.N. has a deep-seated anti-Israel bias.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will visit the former Stutthof concentration camp on a tour of Germany and Poland this month, Kensington Palace has announced.

With surveys showing “lots of Swedish Jews are afraid of showing their Jewishness,” Stockholm has stepped up efforts to teach about the Holocaust as a means of fighting against antisemitism, the director of a government-run program targeting the issue said.

Sheets of a Torah scroll used around the time of the Holocaust in a Polish city were returned to Jewish hands this week.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has triggered international outrage yet again with remarks comparing the nation’s anti-socialist opposition to Nazis and branding his oppressive socialist regime “the new Jews of the 21st century that Hitler persecuted.”

Sizeable minorities of Central and Eastern Europeans say they would not want Jews as citizens in their countries, according to a new survey.

Bridges need to be built between Christians and Jews to help fight the rising tide of global anti-Semitism, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said during his current 12-day visit to the Holy Land.

President Donald Trump spoke at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, participating in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s National Commemoration.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not meet with Germany’s foreign minister on Tuesday after a spat over Sigmar Gabriel’s planned meetings with leftwing groups critical of the IDF.

US President Donald Trump on Monday stressed the importance of remembering lessons of the Holocaust, underscoring the need to “remain vigilant against hateful ideologies and indifference.”

An administrator at New York University compared sensitive liberal college students to Holocaust survivors in an op-ed for The New York Times this week.