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Canadian Holocaust survivors plead for return of European property
Nate Leipciger was just 11 when he was forced to leave his home in Nazi-occupied Chorzow, an industrial town in Poland. He grabbed his two most cherished belongings, a box of tools and a stamp album,...
View ArticleLetters: What would Jesus do?
Re: ‘Powers’ Failed To Stop Holocaust, Pope Says, June 22. Pope Francis’s criticism of the great powers for failing to act when people were being imprisoned in concentration camps is a bit rich. The...
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‘Britain’s Schindler’ Nicholas Winton, saviour of 650 Jewish children from...
LONDON — “Is there anyone in our audience tonight who owes their life to Nicholas Winton?” asked the presenter of the popular BBC magazine program “That’s Life”. Around the elderly man, sitting with...
View ArticleGeorge Jonas: The insidious building blocks of neo-Nazism
It occurred to me the other day how fortunate Javad Zarif and his fellow representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran were that no journalist popped them any questions about the Holocaust during...
View ArticleMichael Coren: The Holocaust was not a Muslim crime. It came from Christian...
I really do understand Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s anger and frustration. The current campaign of stabbing and murder of usually unarmed and often female Israelis by Palestinian...
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Poignant Holocaust artwork by Jews forced into hiding, concentration camps...
Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesThe artwork "The Funeral" by Leo Haas, which he drew while an inmate at the Theresienstadt ghetto, hangs on display at the exhibition: "Art from the Holocaust" during a press...
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Europe’s Jews feel threatened amid resurgence of anti-Semitism, 71 years...
WARSAW, Poland — Dozens of elderly Holocaust survivors lit candles at Auschwitz on Wednesday, exactly 71 years after the Soviet army liberated the death camp that has become the most powerful symbol of...
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Letters released by Israel show how one architect of the ‘Final Solution’...
Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Holocaust, pleaded with Israel to spare his life and claimed to be a “mere instrument” in the slaughter of six million Jews, newly released letters show. Gali...
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Anne Frank-theme escape room ‘shows very little empathy for survivors’ of the...
AMSTERDAM — The Anne Frank foundation on Friday criticized an “escape room” game made to look like the Amsterdam apartment where the teenage Jewish diarist hid with her family from the Netherlands’...
View ArticleIrwin Cotler: ‘Never again,’ again and again
This week marks an important moment of remembrance and reminder, of bearing witness and public warning. For it marks the 22nd anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide – an unspeakable atrocity where one...
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High-school students need to learn more about Holocaust to dissuade teens...
MONTREAL — There’s a very personal driving force behind Heidi Berger’s quest to get provinces to introduce compulsory genocide education for high-school students. Her late mother, Ann Kazimirski, was a...
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A Canadian pinpointed the secret tunnel Nazi prisoners dug to escape the...
The prisoners knew they were going to die. They were a band of 80 Nazi slaves — 70 Jews, nine Russians and one Pole, held in a pit in a Lithuanian forest, and assigned a grisly task: Erase the history...
View ArticleSupreme Court rules federal cabinet must decide whether to deport suspected...
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected a government challenge in the case of Helmut Oberlander, a 92-year-old Canadian fighting for two decades to retain his citizenship since being exposed...
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‘Why did Hitler kill the Jews?’: Article in Ontario Arabic newspaper blames...
Police in London, Ont., are investigating a possible hate crime after an article appeared in an Arabic-language community newspaper that said Jews inflated the number of Holocaust victims from between...
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Bernie M. Farber: Embracing Denial, a new film about Holocaust denier David...
The film Denial — which documents the trial of David Irving, a British anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who brought a libel suit against American professor Deborah Lipstadt — recently got its world...
View ArticleMario Silva: Persistence of anti-Semitism shows world has yet to learn...
This year marks the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Sadly, the liberation of the camp on Jan. 27, 1945 did not put a stop to the mass killing of innocent Jewish...
View ArticleSecret UN files reveal Allied leaders knew about Nazi death camps ‘long...
Kept secret for nearly 70 years, a trove of United Nations war crimes files made public this week contains early evidence of Nazi death camps that was smuggled out of Eastern Europe into Allied hands....
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Geoffrey Clarfield: Armenian genocide was in many ways a rehearsal for the...
Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” Adolf Hitler, 1939 Genocide is a 20th century word, coined by Polish Jewish lawyer Rafael Lempkin. He invented it to describe what...
View ArticleOne million Jews killed in Holocaust still unidentified — and researchers...
Researchers in Jerusalem are rushing to put names to more than one million unidentified victims of the Holocaust before survivors and family members who knew them die. It is a phenomenon that BBC News...
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Mezuzah cases and concentration camp papers: Holocaust artifacts appearing on...
After eBay publicly committed to taking down posts selling Nazi and Holocaust artifacts, sellers continue to post listings for clothes, utensils and heirlooms they say are from the 1940s, marking them...
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