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Israeli filmmaker Guy Nattiv said in his acceptance for the Oscar’s Best Live Action Short award that the “bigotry” during the Holocaust is seen “everywhere” in contemporary American and European life. 

Israel’s interests are are best advanced by working with like-minded countries. And in issues that matter, along a wide spectrum of areas, Poland is a like-minded country, despite painful historical differences.

Acting Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz should apologize to Poland for his remarks, US Ambassador to Poland Georgette Mosbacher said on Wednesday, commenting on the diplomatic row between two countries.

WARSAW, Poland — U.S. Vice President Mike Pence paid homage Thursday to the suffering of the Jewish and Polish people under German occupation during World War II with visits to memorials honoring their suffering and heroism.

President Donald Trump used a significant portion of his State of the Union address Tuesday evening to tackle the phenomenon of antisemitism — both abroad, and at home.

One in 20 UK adults do not believe the Holocaust took place, a survey reveals, while one in 12 believes the scale has been exaggerated.

WARSAW, Poland — Former prisoners of Auschwitz have placed flowers at an execution wall at the former Nazi German death camp on the 74th anniversary of the camp’s liberation and what is now International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

A team of Israeli divers plan to start searching the Danube River in Hungary this week in an attempt to recover the remains of Jews killed on the banks of the waterway during the Holocaust.

The remains of six unidentified Holocaust victims will be buried in a formal Jewish funeral more than 20 years after an Auschwitz survivor found them at the site of the former death camp.

A columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer compared the recent case of a high school wrestler having his dreadlocks cut before a match to the horrors of the Holocaust.

The Rep.-elect wished a Merry Christmas to refugee babies in mangers, drawing a parallel between refugees and the Nativity story. 

JERUSALEM — Simcha Rotem, the last known Jewish fighter from the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis, has died. He was 94.

BERLIN — Germany has agreed to one-time payments for survivors, primarily Jews, who were evacuated from Nazi Germany as children, many of whom never saw their parents again, the organization that negotiates compensation with the German government said Monday.

ROME — Rome’s mayor, Catholic groups and politicians of every stripe joined Italy’s Jewish community on Monday in denouncing the theft of 20 small bronze plaques honoring a Jewish family deported during the Holocaust.

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump welcomed guests at the White House to celebrate Hanukkah on Thursday, including eight Holocaust survivors.

Apple CEO Tim Cook advocated for censorship of “those who push hate [and] division” across his company’s digital platforms.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has accused President Donald Trump of hounding his regime in a similar way to how Adolf Hitler persecuted Jewish people during the Holocaust. 

The Dutch national railway company says it will set up a commission to investigate how it can pay individual reparations for its role in mass deportations of Jews by Nazi occupiers during World War II.

Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) compared the migrant caravan members seeking to enter America illegally to Jews fleeing the Holocaust, which can only mean she is comparing Central America to Nazi Germany.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) tweeted at Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) that she should visit the U.S. Holocaust Museum to educate herself about the differences between Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and the migrant caravan trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) posted a tweet on Sunday evening comparing the migrant caravan members attempting to illegally cross the U.S. border to Jewish families fleeing persecution during the Holocaust.

TEL AVIV – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday issued a formal apology on behalf of his country for its refusal to accept Jewish people fleeing the Holocaust in 1939.

Pope Francis recalled the importance of remembering the Shoah Monday, insisting that anti-Semitism must be eradicated from the planet.

LYON – Robert Faurisson, a former French academic who was convicted several times for claiming there was no systematic mass killings of Jews by Nazi Germany, has died aged 89 in his hometown of Vichy, central France, his sister and his editor said Monday.

U.S. Ambassador Richard Grenell has called out Louis Farrakhan for a Tweet making light of his own anti-Semitic past.

WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s president and descendants of Holocaust survivors held a graveside ceremony Tuesday to honor a Polish diplomat in Switzerland who helped Jews escape Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II by issuing phony Latin American passports.

COPENHAGEN – Freddy Vainer was only four years old when he and his family were forced to flee Copenhagen to escape being deported to Nazi concentration camps, but he remembers it like it was yesterday.

TEL AVIV – A mandatory lecture for University of Michigan art students reportedly featured a former Black Panther leader who compared Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler.

CORTE MADERA, California — Sonia Orbuch, who survived the Holocaust as a teenager in eastern Europe by joining a resistance group that was sabotaging the Nazis, has died in Northern California, a newspaper reported. She was 93.

UK Conservative Dominic Raab called out the opposition Labour Party’s entrenched anti-Semitism on Monday by using the example of his own father’s escape from the Holocaust and the incipient anti-Jewish hatred generated by Nazism.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif used a CBS interview on Sunday to acknowledge the Holocaust before saying it is no justification for what he called “an apartheid policy in Palestine.”

KAUNAS, Lithuania — Pope Francis warned Sunday against any rebirth of the “pernicious” anti-Semitic attitudes that fueled the Holocaust as he marked the annual remembrance for Lithuania’s centuries-old Jewish community that was nearly wiped out during World War II.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will formally apologize in November for Canada’s refusal to accept a shipload of German Jews seeking asylum in 1939, at the cost of more than 200 lives.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte called Adolf Hitler “insane” during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem and pledged that his country would fight against other such leaders.

LVIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian city of Lviv, once a major center of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the annihilation of the city’s Jewish population by Nazi Germany and honoring those working today to remember and preserve what they can of that vanished world.

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Jews were still at risk even decades after the Holocaust, as he wrapped up a groundbreaking visit to Lithuania, a Baltic state once home to his forefathers.