Canada removes Holocaust memorial plaque that omitted Jewish victims
The Canadian government has removed a plaque from its inaugural Holocaust memorial after falling to mention antisemitism or the murder of six million Jewish people. […]
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Notorious Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel dead at 78
The notorious Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel has died, aged 78, according to a statement from his wife. Zundel was born in Germany in 1939 but […]
Horst Mahler, German neo-Nazi, arrested in Hungary
The arrest of an 81-year-old former left-wing terrorist who turned to neo-Nazism and received a 10-year prison sentence for Holocaust denial has rallied neo-Nazis as […]
How Waitstill and Martha Sharp risked it all to save Jewish lives in WWII
The year was 1938 and the Munich Pact allowed the German annexation of the Sudetenland – an area of land bordering Czechoslovakia. This agreement shocked […]
Swedish nun Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad canonised for saving Jews in WWII
A Roman Catholic nun who sheltered Jewish lives during the Second World War has achieved sainthood. Pope Francis canonised Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad on June 5, […]
Croatian Jews boycott official Holocaust memorial over rising neo-Nazism
Around 300 of Croatia’s Jewish population held a vigil outside the country’s most notorious concentration camp in protest at the government’s alleged failure to challenge […]
Bucharest mayoral candidate outed as Holocaust denier
A mayoral candidate in the upcoming Bucharest election had denied Romania’s complicity in the Holocaust in a 1994 news article. Marian Munteanu now of the […]
Dr Michael Siegel: the Jewish lawyer who survived Nazi violence and humiliation on March 10, 1933
The year is 1933 and Hitler’s rise to power is imminent. Days earlier and the Nazis had exploited the burning of the Reichstag, home of […]
Lithuanian neo-Nazi march celebrates Nazi collaborators
Nationalists marched in Kaunas, a city east of Lithuania’s capitol of Vilnius, to celebrate alleged Nazi collaborators. Members of defendinghistory.com – a website dedicated to […]
Jan Karski: the Catholic spy who warned about the Holocaust in 1942
The story of Jan Karski’s bravery in the Second World War came to life in a recent documentary in his native Poland. Sławomir Grünberg’s ‘Karski […]