Auschwitz Survivor Using Facebook to Search for Twin
Courtesy Menachem Bodner(JERUSALEM) — A 72-year-old Auschwitz survivor has taken his search for his twin brother to Facebook. Menachem B., who wants to keep his last name private, last saw his brother 68 years ago when he was 4 years old. Menachem B.’…
Joan Rivers Refuses to Apologize for Holocaust Joke
(Photo by Angela Weiss/Getty Images)(LOS ANGELES) — Joan Rivers is facing criticism after she made a joke about Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
Commenting on German model Heidi Klum’s daring Oscar party dress on E!’s Fashion Police Monday,…
Nazi War Criminal Laszlo Csatary Taken Into Custody in Budapest
ABC News(BUDAPEST, Hungary) — The past may have finally caught up with a 97-year-old Nazi war criminal who was taken into custody Wednesday in Budapest, Hungary.Laszlo Csatary, who has been convicted in absentia and sentenced to death, was picked up e…
‘Sadistic’ Nazi War Criminal Laszlo Csatary Lived Openly in Hungary
ABC NewsUPDATE: Laszlo Csatary was taken into custody in Hungary on Wednesday, according to multiple reports.
(BUDAPEST, Hungary) — One of World War II’s most “sadistic” Nazis lived openly in Budapest, Hungary, in recent years, but has apparently slip…
‘Joe the Plumber’ Blames the Holocaust on Gun Control
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher is drawing scorn from far outside of the northern Ohio district where he’s running for Congress after posting a campaign video this week that seems to blame t…
Family of Holocaust Survivor Ordered to Return Artifact
Hemera/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A Brooklyn court has ordered the family of a Holocaust survivor to return a 3,200-year-old artifact to a German museum.The Assyrian artifact is a golden tablet about the size of a passport photo that was looted from the V…
Obama Writes Poland’s President, Apologizes for ‘Polish Death Camp’ Flap
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza(WASHINGTON) — President Obama wrote a letter to the president of Poland in which he expressed regret for his words during the Medal of Freedom ceremony in which he referred to World War II-era “Polish dea…
President Obama Causes Outrage with Reference to ‘Polish Death Camp’
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza(WASHINGTON) — Poles and Polish-Americans expressed outrage Tuesday at President Obama’s reference earlier to “a Polish death camp,” as opposed to a Nazi death camp in German-occupied Poland.&l…
Teacher Arrested After Grabbing Student During Anti-Semitic Rant
BananaStock/Thinkstock(BLUFFTON, S.C.) — A South Carolina teacher is accused of grabbing a student and shoving him under a table last Wednesday as she delivered an anti-Semitic rant in her classroom, one her lawyer said was part of an interactive hist…
At Holocaust Memorial, Obama Unveils New Sanctions on Syria, Iran
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Obama announced new steps Monday aimed at preventing authoritarian regimes from using mobile phone and Internet technologies to perpetrate mass atrocities against their people. In a somber address a…