The National Holocaust Memorial Museum announces that President Donald Trump will deliver the keynote address at the Days of Remembrance ceremony at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday slammed western powers during his speech on Holocaust Remembrance Day, saying that Allied powers knew of the atrocities happening to Jews in death camps and had they have acted on that knowledge they would have saved the lives of four million Jews and millions of others.
Israel has come to a standstill as people stopped in their tracks for a two-minute siren that wailed across the country in remembrance of the Holocaust’s 6 million Jewish victims.
The Allied Powers were aware of the scale of the Jewish Holocaust two-and-a-half years earlier than is generally assumed, and had even prepared war crimes indictments against Adolf Hitler and his top Nazi commanders.
When it comes to combatting genocide, words are trivial and action is everything. I am grateful to Sean Spicer and the members of the Trump team for taking action to give value to innocent Arab life.
Tuesday on “CNN Tonight,” Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz reacted to the incorrect statement by White House press secretary Sean Spicer saying not even Adolf Hitler used chemical weapons, as he was defending the President Donald Trump’s decision to attack
TEL AVIV — In its coverage of White House Spokesman Sean Spicer’s controversial comments about Adolf Hitler and Syria, the news media is widely hyping remarks by the largely unknown, hyper-partisan, anti-Trump group calling itself the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer apologized for his earlier “inappropriate and insensitive” comments about the Holocaust and Syria. Spicer said, “I was obviously trying to make a point about the heinous acts that Assad
An Anti-Defamation League official criticized an assignment given in a New York State high school, asking students to debate the final solution from a Nazi perspective.
Forty of the 50 headstones at an 18th-century Jewish cemetery in France were smashed or toppled. A passer-by noticed the vandalism earlier this week at the cemetery in Waldwisse, a village situated 215 miles east of Paris, the France3 television channel reported Thursday. The cemetery is no longer in use.
Vice President Mike Pence addressed a sea of nearly 20,000 people at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference on Sunday, where he spoke of the “unbreakable” bond between the United States and Israel.
Actor-director Mel Gibson has been quietly donating time and money to a charity that provides aid to survivors of the Holocaust, according to a report.
A senior IOC member strongly opposed barring Russia from next year’s Winter Olympics over its doping record on Thursday, comparing a blanket ban to the Holocaust.
Hollywood actress Jessica Chastain and the female director of her new movie are celebrating both the strength and the tenderness of women.
Vandals scrawled graffiti claiming the Holocaust was “fake history” on an exterior wall of a Seattle synagogue, leading the rabbi to urge President Donald Trump to more forcefully denounce a wave of anti-Semitic incidents in recent months.
If she could change any one event in all of world history — including possibly going back in time to thwart genocidal dictators — former Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester would choose to ensure Donald Trump lost the 2016 presidential election.
On November 20, Phil Murphy, the likely Democratic nominee to be the next governor of New Jersey, gave a shocking speech to a group of 400 progressives in which he compared Donald Trump’s rise to power to the ascension of Adolf Hitler in Germany.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem has called on Amazon to stop selling Holocaust denial books, charging the retail giant of promoting anti-Semitism and hate speech.
Posters questioning the Jewish death toll in the Holocaust were found last week on the campus of the University of Calgary in Canada, the student newspaper The Gauntlet reported.
An Arlington preschool teacher has been fired over a series of anti-Semitic posts on social media, including a tweet that said “kill some Jews.”
In an address to the Anti-Defamation League Thursday, Pope Francis denounced the “widespread” anti-Semitism in the world today, while recommitting the Catholic Church to “repel anti-Semitic tendencies.”
A recently discovered inventory of recorded tapes contains previously unheard songs sung by Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
In 2009, the media defended President Barack Obama when he visited the German city of Dresden, which was bombed by Allies in the Second World War, before visiting the Holocaust death camp at Buchenwald.
A viral fake news story on Monday morning declares: “Ivanka’s Jewish In-Laws Call Out President Trump’s Unconstitutional Muslim Ban (VIDEO).”
The former secretary of Nazi Germany’s propaganda boss Joseph Goebbels died aged 106 last week, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the maker of a documentary about her said Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu noted the uptick in antisemitism across Europe and the ongoing Iranian nuclear threat during an event marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem.
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder released a statement Saturday evening chiding Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt for criticizing President Donald Trump’s statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which did not specifically mention Jews.
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pope Francis summoned the world to remember the victims of the Holocaust so that this atrocity can never be repeated. On Friday morning, the Pope met with a delegation from the European Jewish Congress, which
A Holocaust survivor had a particularly happy 92nd birthday this week.
The Algemeiner reports: Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday, thousands of photos of people holding “We remember” or “I remember” signs have been broadcast on a screen set up at the site of the former Nazi death camp
Poland has seen a rise in anti-Semitism over the last two years, partly fueled by Europe’s migrant crisis, according to a study released on Tuesday.
BERLIN (AFP) – A leading member of German right-wing populist party AfD sparked an outcry Wednesday by criticising the Holocaust memorial in Berlin and calling for the country to stop atoning for its Nazi past.
Researchers excavating the remains of one of the most notorious Nazi death camps have uncovered a pendant that appears identical to one belonging to Anne Frank, Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial said Sunday.
Brick by brick, plank by plank, workers at the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau carefully clean its barracks to preserve the Holocaust symbol for future generations.
TEL AVIV – An Egyptian journalist wrote an op-ed claiming that Hitler only murdered between 100,000 – 600,000 Jews – and not six million – and that he was justified in doing so because Jews had seized all manner of control in Germany, spreading pornography and homosexuality as well as being responsible for the country’s economic collapse.
TEL AVIV – A survey by Italy’s Education Ministry showed that students at Italian high schools all over the country included Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s manifesto Mein Kampf in their list of their top ten favorite books.
TEL AVIV – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party on Wednesday passed a resolution opposing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, labeling anti-Israel activism as anti-Semitic and comparing BDS to Nazi boycotts.
In the epic, 16-year battle over a priceless painting looted by the Nazis, there is one point on which all sides agree: When Lilly Cassirer and her husband fled Germany ahead of the Holocaust, they surrendered their Camille Pissarro masterpiece in exchange for their lives.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Culture Minister on Sunday slammed a Russian reality television show for featuring a Holocaust-themed figure skating performance in which the skaters – one of whom is the wife of President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman – wore concentration camp uniforms decked out with yellow Stars of David.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian leaders mourned the death of Cuban President Fidel Castro, hailing the revolutionary leader as a “comrade” to the Palestinian cause who supported the battle against “Zionist imperialism.”
