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A special exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race," explores how the Nazis developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization of individuals considered to be "biological threats." (Courtesy United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
April 4, 2024, 11:16 am
Leading American medical journal faces down its own history of endorsing Nazi race science
Titled “Nazism and the Journal,” the article is part of a series written by independent historians that focuses on biases and injustices that New England Journal of Medicine has historically countenanced
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
The president of the republic Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during the announcement of the underwater tunnel that will connect the cities of Santos with the city of Guaruja, during a visit to the city of Santos, on the coast of the state of Sao Paulo, this Friday (02). Photo: Ettore Chiereguini/AGIF (Photo by Ettore Chi
February 19, 2024, 8:12 am
Brazilian president compares Israel’s conduct in Gaza to Hitler killing Jews
Yad Vashem chief criticises Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for having 'stooped to such a level of extreme distortion of the Holocaust'
By JN Reporter
George Simion, president of Romania's right-wing AUR party, attends a protest about COVID-19 rules in Bucharest, Dec. 21, 2021. (Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images)
August 30, 2023, 9:11 am
This Romanian party called the Holocaust a ‘minor topic.’ Israel’s envoy just met with its leader
Last year, the nationalist AUR party issued a statement calling Holocaust education, which had been recently mandated in Romanian high schools, a “minor topic.”
By Gabe Friedman (JTA)
Team GB delegation visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, supported by the Holocaust Educational Trust.
June 27, 2023, 9:14 am
Team GB honours life of Sir Ben Helfgott on visit to Auschwitz
The Holocaust Educational Trust facilitated the tour and led the team through the Nazi death camp.
By JN Reporter
Claims Conference Delegation for negotiations with the German government. Credit: Claims Conference.
June 15, 2023, 1:19 pm
AJR welcomes new Holocaust survivor compensation deal: ‘Life-changing impact’
Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) told Jewish News that it was "grateful" to the Claims Conference for "another round of successful negotiations" with the German government.
By Jotam Confino
A fence in Vienna surrounds the statue of Karl Lueger, the antisemitic former mayor of the Austrian capital, Oct. 6, 2020. (Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images)
June 7, 2023, 10:33 am
Vienna to tilt statue of antisemitic mayor 3.5 degrees to the right to shift ‘perspective’
Karl Lueger served as mayor for 13 years until his death in 1910. He was known for antisemitic rhetoric that is said to have inspired Hitler, who lived in Vienna as a young man.
By Gabe Friedman (JTA)
A silver-plated pencil purported to have belonged to Adolf Hitler. An auctioneer in Northern Ireland has been urged to stop the sale. The ornate silver-plated pencil is set to go under the hammer in Belfast next week as well as a signed portrait of the notorious dictator.
June 6, 2023, 4:32 pm
Pencil purported to have belonged to Adolf Hitler sells for tenth of estimate
It is believed the pencil had been given to the Nazi dictator by his long-term partner Eva Braun as a gift for his 52nd birthday on April 20, 1941.
By JN Reporter
Sucharit Bhakdi, a microbiologist and prominent anti-vaccine activist, in Schleswig-Holstein, Plön, Germany, May 2023. (Christian Charisius/dpa via Getty)
May 25, 2023, 8:44 am
German court acquits COVID denier who compared Israel to Nazi Germany
Sucharit Bhakdi, 74, a well-known critic of Germany’s pandemic restrictions, said that the Jews had learned evil under Hitler and are utilising it in Israel to spread more evil.
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA)
File photo dated 29/6/2022 of James Allchurch, the white-supremacist podcast host who is to be sentenced after stirring up racial hatred on his "vile" show Radio Aryan. Allchurch, 51, from Pembrokeshire, Wales, was convicted by a jury in March following a trial at Swansea Civic Centre. The self-proclaimed "avowed racist" and Adolf Hitler supporter will appear in court on Monday after he was found guilty of 10 out of 15 counts of distributing audio material to stir up racial hatred over a two-year period. Issue date: Monday May 15, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS RadioAryan. Photo credit should read: Bronwen Weatherby/PA Wire
May 15, 2023, 9:18 am
Host of ‘vile, racist’ podcast to be sentenced for stirring up hatred
The self-proclaimed 'avowed racist' and Adolf Hitler supporter, James Allchurch, will appear in court on Monday.
By Bronwen Weatherby and PA
James Allchurch
April 3, 2023, 8:16 am
Podcaster faces prison after being convicted of stirring up racial hatred
The judge told James Allchurch, 51, a self-proclaimed “avowed racist” and Hitler supporter that he faces a prison sentence measured in years not months.
By JN Reporter
A lesson plan shared by the creator of the neo-Nazi group Dissident Homeschool Network, in which children learn cursive by copying a Hitler quote, Nov. 22, 2022. (Screenshot via Telegram)
January 31, 2023, 10:44 am
Nazi homeschooling network teaches children to love Hitler
The “dissidents” are a group of Nazi parents in Ohio, USA, who share homeschooling lesson plans extolling the virtues of Hitler and white nationalism.
By Andrew Lapin (JTA)
Nazis remove Jewish prayer books from a shul for burning during Kristallnacht in 1938. Credit: Yad Vashem
November 10, 2022, 1:01 pm
Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum releases rare photos of Kristallnacht
91 Jews were killed in attacks between November 9-10 in 1938, while 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and later sent to concentration camps
By Jotam Confino in Israel
A dog collar said to have belonged to the Scottish terrier of Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's wife, on display on the website of Alexander Historical Auctions in July 2022 (Photo: Alexander Historical Auctions)
July 29, 2022, 4:08 pm
US auction house defends right to sell Eva Braun’s ‘Nazi dog collar’
The president of Alexander Historical Auctions insisted his customers are not neo-Nazis, saying they were 'too poor and too stupid'
By JTA
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivering a speech during the dedication of a monument honoring the veterans and victims of the siege of Leningrad in Gan Sacherin Jerusalem. ahead of the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, Israel, 23 January 2020. Photo by: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM-JINIPIX
May 5, 2022, 6:19 pm
Vladimir Putin apologises to Israel for minister’s ‘Jewish Hitler’ remark
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's claims about the Nazi leader's heritage triggered a storm earlier this week
By Michael Daventry
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov holds a press conference in Moscow, Russia, on April 27, 2022 (Getty)
May 4, 2022, 10:56 am
OPINION: Lavrov and the contemptuous distortion of history and politics
The implication that Jews are responsible for their own suffering is a vile and intellectually mendacious insinuation.
By Jeremy Havardi
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