Werner Reich of the American Jewish Committee, Long Island chapter, has a unique message for people - to be a just person and do the right thing. To do that, he offers the acronym JUST: for Judge the situation; Understand...
In a move to questions the historic dimensions of the Holocaust, Iran has published a cartoon book on the massacre of Jews during World War II, a television channel reported on Friday. The book is titled “Holocaust” and contains satirical...
Baker & McKenzie LLP has partnered with the United Jewish Appeal (“UJA”) and Jewish Information Services of Toronto (“JIST”) to host a free clinic to assist Holocaust survivors in filing claims under the German Ghetto Work Payment Program (“GWPP”) on...
Jerusalem, Sep 26 (DPA) A full copy of nearly 52,000 testimonies of Holocaust survivors has been transferred to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Centre in Jerusalem, making it the world’s largest repository of survivor evidence of the Nazi genocide of the...
Joan Rivers and her daughter, Melissa, were due to critique Emmy fashions on AOL.com’s fashion site, StyleList, immediately following the Sept. 21 awards show. But the mother-daughter team’s comments never saw the light of day. What happened? Rivers says she...
Faurisson's work causes envy.
PARIS (AFP) — French journalist Pierre Pean broke down in tears Wednesday on the second day of his trial for inciting hatred in a book on the Rwandan genocide after he was compared to a famous Holocaust denier. Pean’s book...
BRIDGEPORT - Hungarian-born Sari Baron lives in Bridgeport. But she spent much of her teen years at Auschwitz, where she was forced to make bombs. Unable to walk after a bomb fell on her foot, she was left behind during...
OAKVILLE - Canada’s human rights hate speech laws can, and eventually will, prohibit discussion of any historical conflict in which religion or race played a role, according to a leading defender of Canada’s most notorious far-right figures. Doug Christie, addressing...
Pupils hear of traumatic journey from Berlin to concentration camp to England
TORONTO — An adjudicator of a human rights hearing into an Internet hate case expressed serious misgivings Monday about whether a provision used to attack hate speech can continue to exist in the Internet age. The Human Rights Act provision...
Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz issued a harsh attack on his main rival for the Kadima leadership, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, on Saturday night, accusing her of not having the clean hands that are seen as her top electoral asset. Mofaz...
[…] “The nightmares are now gone, but I will never forget those dark days,” Lisl Schick said. “I lost most of my family to the Nazis … my grandparents, aunts, uncles.” Schick, now 80, was one of the fortunate ones...
It wasn't until after the war, according to this eyewitness survivor.
