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Urban Outfitters faces widespread outrage for a yellow T-shirt with a six-pointed star logo which closely resembles the Star of David that Jews were forced to wear by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
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On Thursday, 19 April 2012, Israelis will remember the murdered Jews during the Holocaust. Since the Jewish state’s rebirth in 1948, she has faced constant threats. However, threats appear greater today.
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The Auschwitz Museum is requesting the return of a set of barracks it lent to the U.S. Holocaust Museum over 20 years ago.
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Amsterdam -
Over the weekend, a service in Amsterdam honored Holocaust victims and the memory of Dutch protestors who fought against the Nazis.
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Anne Frank, one of the most renowned Jewish victims of the Holocaust, has allegedly been baptized -again- in a Mormon temple. The proxy ritual, known as a 'baptism for the dead' reportedly happened in the Dominican Republic.
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Berlin -
Die Welt has put online one of the thirty original copies of Hitler's protocol for the Holocaust. It was thought that no original copies of the "die Endloesung der Judenfrage", the "final solution of the Jewish problem", existed.
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The owner of The Circuit Factory in Dubai, Phil Parkinson, is facing criticism after launching an ad campaign promoting his gym as a "calorie concentration camp." He also used a picture of the entrance of the famous Nazi extermination camps, Auschwitz.
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Jerusalem -
Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors have expressed outrage over a demonstration in Jerusalem on Saturday in which ultra-Orthodox Jews used the Star of David patches and uniforms similar to those Nazis forced Jews to wear in the World War II.
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Oswiecim -
Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi concentration camp in Poland, is falling into ruin as evidence of atrocities disintegrate. A mammoth task to preserve the site is underway, to conserve its legacy.
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Munich -
91-year-old John Demjanjuk was found guilty in May, 2011 of crimes committed as a guard at a Nazi death camp during the Second World War. Now, some see this as an opportunity to find and prosecute the hundreds of remaining former-Nazi suspects.
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The replacement of a plaque at a major Holocaust memorial site sparks a row in Russia's southern city of Rostov-on-Don.
The Norwegian prime minister apologises for the role his country played in deporting Jews as Europe marks Holocaust Remembrance Day.
 A woman living in Toronto has been formally charged in the U.S. with taking part in a scheme to steal from a Holocaust survivors' fund.
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Holocaust Blogs
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