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A book of fairy tales that belonged to Anne Frank sold for $62,500 dollars at a New York auction on Thursday, Swann Auction Galleries said. The 1925 edition of “Grimm’s Fairy Tales,” including “Snow White” and “Hansel and Gretel,” belonged

TEL AVIV – Thousands of Israelis opened their living rooms to the public on Wednesday evening, hosting Holocaust survivors who told of their personal experiences on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Ynetnews reports: Before Louis’s Gross’ father, Jozef Gross, passed away in Melbourne, Australia, he bequeathed an unassuming box to his son. The box would have been thrown in the garbage but for the interest of one of Louis’ acquaintance. When he saw the ring, he recognized its importance and suggested that it be looked at.

A new virtual reality film promises to take viewers inside the attic where a young Anne Frank hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam in 1942.

TEL AVIV – Former London mayor Ken Livingstone abused the memory of the Holocaust for his own political needs, Israeli MK Merav Michaeli said on Sunday.

The Times of Israel reports: Amid an ongoing row over anti-Semitism in Britain’s Labour Party, a Jewish member of parliament from the party published a series of tweets and private messages she received online in recent years which highlight the disturbing level of abuse endured by Jewish politicians in the United Kingdom.

A second poster claiming the Holocaust was masterminded by the Jews for financial gain has been found on Glasgow university campus, just days after being seen at Edinburgh University. The police are investigating.

The controversial election of Malia Bouattia to the leadership of the UK’s National Union of Students (NUS) is splitting the organization with a host of universities now saying they may leave and form their own alternative group.

The grandchildren of one of the earliest Jewish victims of the Nazis are laying claim to a jewel of Israel’s top museum: the world’s oldest illustrated Passover manuscript.

Britain’s National Union of Student (NUS) has elected as president a woman who has refused to condemn Islamic State (IS), called for violent “resistance” against Israel and believes a Jewish conspiracy controls the mainstream media.

The Saudi London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat recently published a column condemning Arab countries for failing to shoulder responsibility in alleviating the Syria crisis and instead waiting for the West to do the work.

The Times of Israel reports: Aware of Germany’s commitment to Israel in light of the Holocaust, the Palestinians will not ask Berlin to abandon its traditionally pro-Israel position, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on the eve of a visit

Actress Sharon Stone admits that she’s ready for Hillary, but is afraid for America’s future if White House hopeful Donald Trump is elected president — which she says could lead to another Holocaust.

A Belgian government minister has drawn an unlikely parallel between Muslim terrorists who evaded capture in Brussels after the Paris terror attacks and “the Jews who hid here during the Nazi occupation.”

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s Jewish community has confirmed that it will boycott an official Holocaust commemoration to protest government’s alleged inaction to curb the surge of neo-Nazi sentiments in the country. The Coordinating Committee of the Jewish Communities of

The death of a former Auschwitz guard days before his trial in Germany has dashed the hopes of two elderly Jewish survivors of Nazi rule who wanted to see justice for their parents, who perished while the guard was on

Ynetnews reports: In 1945, Aleksandar Lebl returned to Serbia after escaping the extermination of Jews in World War II and reclaimed his family’s confiscated house. But the 93-year-old is one of the very few of Serbia’s Holocaust survivors who came back

A Holocaust survivor said on Tuesday that four suspects accused by German prosecutors of being accessory to murder at Auschwitz must have known of the mass killings taking place at the camp because of the “unbearable stench” of burning bodies.

The Times of Israel reports: Esther Herlitz, a former MK, an Israel Prize laureate and the country’s first female ambassador, died this week at the age of 94. Herlitz was born in Berlin in 1921, and her family emigrated to

Veteran actress Shirley MacLaine bragged about the success of her open marriage — which ended in divorce — this week during an interview.

Poland on Thursday opened its first museum in tribute to Poles who lost their lives helping Jews during World War II, on the exact spot where Nazis executed a young family for providing shelter. President Andrzej Duda honoured descendants of

The trial of a former Auschwitz medic for abetting 3,681 murders was suspended for the second time in two weeks Monday, raising fresh questions whether the case can proceed. A court in the eastern town of Neubrandenburg halted proceedings against

Ynetnews reports: The Prime Minister’s Office, the Ministry of Welfare, and the Claims Conference (which represents the interests of Holocaust survivors) announced on Thursday that they have reached a principle agreement regarding the transfer of millions of shekels to organizations

The Times of Israel reports: Israel is routinely left off maps, Israeli cities are said to be in Palestine, martyrdom is celebrated, and there is not a single mention of the Holocaust in more than 70 official Palestinian Authority textbooks,

The Independent reports: He was gay, Jewish, and a high-profile German state prosecutor in 1960s West Germany. But it was his dogged determination to bring Hitler’s henchmen to justice that meant Fritz Bauer was ostracised by politicians, feared denunciation as

The Times of Israel reports: An event including Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, a Jewish pro-Palestinian activist who has likened Israel to Nazi Germany, was canceled by the Austrian Parliament two day after invitations were sent out. A spokeswoman for the

The Times of Israel reports: Austria invited Hedy Epstein, a Jewish pro-Palestinian activist whom the Anti-Defamation League criticized for demonizing Israel, to represent Holocaust survivors at a panel discussion about women during World War II. In invitations sent out Friday

The Times of Israel reports: Samuel Willenberg, the last surviving prisoner of Treblinka — who managed to escape the Nazi death camp in 1943 — has died at the age of 93. Willenberg was born in 1923 in Częstochowa, in

WARSAW – Poland is drawing up new regulations to punish use of the phrase “Polish death camps” when referring to wartime Nazi concentration camps on Polish soil, Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro said on Saturday. Poland has long sought to eliminate

BERLIN (AFP) – Two former SS men will go on trial this month for their alleged complicity in the murder of thousands of people at Auschwitz, as Germany accelerates its bid to prosecute ageing Third Reich criminals. Reinhold Hanning, 93, faces court

The Times of Israel reports: Israelis are worried for the future of world Jewry, a new poll has found, with a quarter of respondents believing another Holocaust could take place and almost a third agreeing that European Jews should move

The Jerusalem Post reports: WASHINGTON – Three days before Israel’s embassy in Washington was set to host its first-ever address by a sitting American president, its staff faced a tall order: Digging out from an historic blizzard that buried the complex

The New York Times reports: JERUSALEM — After he was convicted and sentenced to death in Israel for his role in the annihilation of millions of Jews by Nazi Germany, Adolf Eichmann pleaded for his own life. “There is a need

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the website for Ali Khamenei, the dictator of the Islamic Republic of Iran, posted a video in which he expresses doubts about the Holocaust.

The rising tide of anti-Semitism now convulsing Europe is forcing political leaders to address the matter of Jews in society and their place in countries that for generations have provided a safe haven for the Jewish diaspora. On Tuesday night the German chancellor, Angela Merkel,

On a world day of commemoration of the Shoah, Pope Francis spoke of the history of the people of Israel and God’s special bond of love toward them. In his weekly audience Wednesday, Pope Francis compared God’s love for the