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Germany announced Wednesday it will grant an additional $720 million to over 300 international welfare organisations to support disabled and vulnerable Holocaust survivors.

Canadian MP Ya’ara Saks said “honk, honk” is “an acronym for ‘Heil Hitler'” during House of Commons proceedings on Thursday.

Whoopi Goldberg returned to ABC’s “The View” on Monday after being suspended for claiming that the Holocaust wasn’t “about race.”

A 91-year-old Holocaust survivor who was seriously wounded when a rocket fired from the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip hit her home in southern Israel last year died this week.

“Progressive” caucus leader Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) accused Israel of “war crimes” shortly after visiting Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, prompting then-U.S. Ambassador David Friedman to walk out of a meeting with her in 2018.

“Cancel culture” does not help anyone, least of all Jews. On the contrary, it makes our society more susceptible to hatred, prejudice, and their consequences.

Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from ABC following her controversial comments about the Holocaust in which she said the extermination of six million Jews was not about race.

Monday on CBS’s “The Late Show,” “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg addressed her controversial remarks from earlier in the day, when she said that “the Holocaust isn’t about race.”

The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg apologized on Monday in response to the backlash that ensued over her comments about the Holocaust. 

Whoopi Goldberg set off a firestorm of outrage with her comments about the Holocaust on ABC’s “The View” on Monday. The longtime co-host claimed the Holocaust “isn’t about race,” adding, “it’s about man’s inhumanity to man.”

Whoopi Golberg told her co-hosts Monday on ABC’s “The View” that “the Holocaust isn’t about race” while discussing a Tennessee school district removing Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus from their curriculum.

A letter penned over 75 years ago at the close of the Holocaust was spotted at a New York flea market and is now in the hands of a family descendant.

Pope Francis urged the world Wednesday not to forget the atrocities of the Holocaust but to make future generations aware of this “black page of history.”

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) head Morton Klein expressed outrage after Florida Agriculture Commissioner and Democrat candidate for governor Nikki Fried compared her potential general election opponent Gov. Ron DeSantis to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, calling her remarks “the ugliest hate speech I’ve ever heard” while urging for her immediate resignation.

After the recent revelation of the sale of original Nazi propaganda films on Amazon, prominent voices slammed the e-commerce giant, accusing it of engaging in “hate-for-profit schemes” and “dangerous” monetization of antisemitism.

After presidential historian Douglas Brinkley compared documentation of last year’s Capitol protests to footage of the Nazi Holocaust, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) head Morton Klein expressed outrage over the historian’s “breathtaking insensitivity,” while demanding a “profuse apology” on his part for having “minimize[d] and diminish[ed] the monstrous Holocaust.”

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas recently claimed that in 1948, world powers including the U.S. and UK, conspired in “the theft of the [Palestinian] homeland” to gift to the Jews as part of an “international colonialist” effort, a report released by a media watchdog said on Tuesday.

Following a published letter by the head of “Yad Vashem” — Israel’s premiere Holocaust museum and research center — defending its refusal to display an infamous photograph of leading Palestinian “Mufti” [Islamic legal authority] Haj Amin al-Husseini meeting with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during the Holocaust, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) head Morton Klein slammed the museum and its head Dani Dayan for the “appalling” censorship of history.

JERUSALEM  — Several dozen Holocaust survivors marked the third night of Hanukkah on Tuesday with a menorah-lighting ceremony at Jerusalem’s Western Wall that paid tribute to them and the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis.

Jerusalem – The evening gowns shone under the spotlights and the tiaras sparkled, but this beauty pageant was like no other: all the contestants are Holocaust survivors.

A whistleblowing middle school teacher says she faces a “culture of intimidation” after being forbidden to teach — despite a shortage in teachers — due to her exposing her school district’s “radicalized” critical race theory (CRT) curriculum.

BERLIN (AP) – Berlin’s police chief apologized on Monday for an incident in which officers were pictured practising push-ups on a part of the German capital’s memorial to the 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust.

A Texas school district official advised teachers with books about the Holocaust in their classrooms to also have one with an “opposing” view.

Lackowski, who had worked many years to commemorate the site, expressed his satisfaction that the victims finally have a proper memorial.

Malmö city archivist Anette Sarnäs decided to display Jewish books and posters books in the window of the city archive office only to be told to cover them to avoid potential vandalism.

A former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp was being sought on an arrest warrant after skipping her trial.

Itzehoe (Germany) — A 96-year-old former secretary at a concentration camp will go on trial in Germany Thursday, one of the first women implicated in Nazi-era crimes to be prosecuted in decades.

Left-wing pop star Cher, who campaigned for Joe Biden in 2020, compared the Republican Party to Hitler, warning that the GOP will “destroy democracy & America from within” just as “Hitler destroyed Germany from within.” Cher made no mention of the Holocaust, which resulted in millions of deaths.

Lipstadt, a professor of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies at Emory University, made headlines last year after defending comparing then-President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and those questioning election results to Holocaust deniers.

Olympics Opening Ceremony Director Kentaro Kobayashi was removed from his post following the reports of previously making comments about the Holocaust.

PARIS (AP) – A French Holocaust survivor has denounced anti-vaccination protesters comparing themselves to Jews who were persecuted by Nazi Germany during World War II. French officials and anti-racism groups joined the 94-year-old in expressing indignation.

A Palestinian journalist who was fired by the BBC for a tweet claiming “Hitler was right” has accused the British public broadcaster of “capitulating” to the “whim of a pro-Israel mob.”

In its ongoing obsession with Adolf Eichmann, the Palestinian Authority’s official daily has extolled a man for naming his child after the infamous Nazi officer in a bid to “anger Zionism.”

The Republican Party’s fight against the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools is akin to neo-Nazis in Germany seeking to revise history and put an end to Holocaust education, according to Jason Stanley, a professor of philosophy at Yale University.

Media Matters for America, a tax-exempt, far-left hate group that generates anti-GOP talking points for Democrats and the establishment media, was forced to retract a fake story that falsely smeared a Texas Republican legislator.

TEHRAN — Iran’s state television reported Wednesday that the country’s former firebrand president will run again for office in upcoming elections in June.