Jerry Springer, the American chat show host, breaks down in tears tonight (wed) as he discovers how both his Jewish grandmothers were killed in the Holocaust.
August 2008 Archives
BOSTON (AP) - The publisher of a phony book about surviving the Holocaust is hoping to win reversal of a judgment against her in favor of the author. Publisher Jane Daniel says she, the public and the courts were all...
Richard Ehrlich photographs an archive of Holocaust cruelty
A girl in the front row of Donna Mintz’s eighth-grade language arts class raised her hand Wednesday. She wanted to know how to spell a word. So Angela Eichhorn spelled out Zyklon B. The girl wrote it carefully into her...
Unsung Holocaust hero celebrates 100th
They're not alone: You should see how badly Holocaust scholars do.
As surreal moments go, they don’t come much stranger than this. Jerry Springer, one of the planet’s most famous talk show hosts, is gazing deep into my eyes and singing a very heartfelt - if not pitch perfect - version...
After all these years, the barracks are still there.The same barracks in which women, mostly Jews, were housed during World War II as part of the Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany. Jennifer Middleswart, a special-education teacher at McCombs Middle School,...
At least somebody's getting the money.
BOCA RATON, FL—Greenberg Traurig, working with Jewish Family Services, is sponsoring a free legal clinic in Boca Raton today. During the clinic Holocaust survivors will get assistance with applying for a new reparations program. This will be the first of...
Not even Israel wants to pay Holocaust survivors, even when the money is provided by Germany.
They don't make 'em like they used to.
A revisionist historian living in Australia could be jailed. Dr. Fredrick Toben of the Adelaide Institute, which espouses Holocaust denial viewpoints, allegedly defied a court order to purge Holocaust denial material from his Web site. Toben is awaiting the verdict...
Neal Adams, Joe Kubert and Stan Lee have joined forces with a Holocaust expert to craft a comic that document the struggle of an Auschwitz survivor who painted watercolors to spare her mother’s life in the Nazi camp. The artist,...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A Jewish organization says survivors of the Nazi occupation of Budapest will each get a compensation payment of $2,900. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany says it has reached an agreement with the German...
Good enough to raise money, but not quite good enough to use the synagogue.
An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institute in Petersburg has been charged with running a scheme to cash in bank accounts intended for the families of Holocaust victims. Federal prosecutors say 49-year-old John Kenneth Leighnor Junior falsely represent himself as...
HOLOCAUST denier Fredrick Toben aggravated charges of criminal contempt of court by attacking federal judges and the judicial process, a court has heard. Dr Toben yesterday pleaded not guilty to 28 charges alleging he breached orders made by the Federal...
Apparently this person doesn't teach logic.
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