In Brief
My Village Southbank
A documentary by Julia Elger about the books looted from the homes of German Jews, which were then acquired by the Berlin City Library. Arches 145 & 14...
Court hears charges against Nazi camp suspect
YAHOO!
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) – Prosecutors accused John Demjanjuk on Tuesday of knowingly herding thousands of Jews to their deaths in the Nazi-run Sobibor extermination camp and standing by as victims screamed in fear. Propped up under a whit...
Dutch Jews testify at Demjanjuk trial
JTA
MUNICH, Germany (JTA) -- Dutch Jews who lost parents and siblings to the gas chambers of Sobibor testified in the war crimes trial against John Demjanjuk. Tuesday's testimony, during the second day of the trial in Munich, followed the offic...
'Nazi death camp guard faking illness'
News.com.au
HOLOCAUST survivors today accused John Demjanjuk of faking the gravity of his illness to seek sympathy ahead of the first harrowing testimony on the killing of tens of thousands of Jews at the Sobibor death camp. MUNICH, Germany, Dec 1 AFP ...
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel brings his message to Bryant
The Providence Journal
SMITHFIELD - Elie Wiesel, the author, poet and activist whose insights as a Holocaust survivor have helped to inspire millions of Jews and non-Jews alike, says he still dreads the thought that the world may one day lose its memory.
On trial: Man accused of involvement in Nazi murders of 28,000 Jews
Belfast Telegraph
He is alleged to be the last Nazi mass murderer ever likely to stand trial but John Demjanjuk cut a strange and pathetic figure as he was wheeled into a heavily guarded Munich courtroom on a hospital bed to face charges of complicity in the...
INTERVIEW - Rabbis fear Europe's Jews next after minaret ban
The Star
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Switzerland's ban on building minarets will fuel xenophobia and risks making Jews the next target of religious intolerance, according to European rabbis meeting in Moscow.
For Antwerp Jews, turns out diamonds aren’t forever
JTA
ANTWERP, Belgium (JTA) -- Some years ago, Benjamin Lubelsky's son asked him for help fixing his bicycle, a preferred mode of transport here among Jews and gentiles.
Exploring family roots leads Chatham woman to pen a novel
Bridgeton News
While most Jews were impoverished, my family was actually quite wealthy until World War I, when the forests they owned were cut down so that the timber could be used in the war effort,” Cameron explained. Cameron’s initial interest was ...
Demjanjuk 'was enthusiastic Nazi'
BBC Europe
Alleged Nazi guard John Demjanjuk was a willing participant in the Holocaust, and herded thousands of Jews to their deaths, a German court has heard. Prosecutors said Mr Demjanjuk, 89, volunteered to join the Nazis and shared their racist i...
Jewish Nationalists Clash With Palestinians
New York Times
Shmulik Ben-Ruby, the spokesman for the Jerusalem police, said his force acted in line with the court decision that determined that the property “is owned by Jews.” Blood spattered the forecourt on Tuesday after a Jewish man was hit on the ...
Brookline High students answer anti-gay protestors
Boston Globe
... the school to counter the protest of a half-dozen representatives from Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church at about 3 p.m. The church members held up sings saying “God hates Jews” and “God hates fags” and chanting to the tune of ...
Muslims urged to accept minorities
The Malaysian Insider
MELBOURNE, Dec 6 — Muslims must tackle injustices and corruption in their own countries before they can point a finger at the West, Australia's The Age newspaper quoted opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as saying yesterday. ''How I...
Iranian captor obsessed with 'paradise' New Jersey, freed Newsweek ...
Bridgeton News
... Revolutionary Guard Corps -- believes New Jersey is "paradise on earth,'' the prototypical American state where people drink all the time, have sex all the time and never run into Jews, recently freed reporter Maziar Bahari says. To whi...
