Jews News
|
By AFP
Copenhagen -
Denmark's Jewish community has filed a complaint over an imam accused of calling for the murder of Jews in a case sparking political opprobrium, it emerged Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Berlin -
Jews in Germany say they feel a "growing threat" of anti-Semitism, especially from Muslims but also from xenophobic far-right groups, a parliamentary report said Monday.
|
|
By AFP
Paris -
Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen denied Sunday that the French state was responsible for the wartime round-up of Jews at a Paris cycling track who were then sent to Nazi death camps.
|
|
By AFP
London -
Britain's main opposition Labour Party was in turmoil Thursday just weeks before local elections, after deciding not to expel a senior party member who made comments about Adolf Hitler and Zionism.
|
|
By AFP
Amsterdam -
Seven decades ago, the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank is unlikely to have imagined that her story would be kept alive for new generations via a computer-generated bot.
|
|
By AFP
Zagreb -
Croatian Jews said Friday they would boycott for the second consecutive year a commemoration for victims of the country's most notorious World War II camp, blaming authorities for failing to react to a pro-Nazi ideology revival.
|
|
By AFP
Vatican City -
The Vatican and Rome's Jewish community on Monday presented an ambitious exhibition on the menorah which will bring together 130 works featuring the iconic Jewish candelabrum, an ancient symbol of the faith.
|
|
By AFP
Den Haag -
The highest court in The Netherlands on Tuesday upheld the acquittal of an antique dealer prosecuted for selling old copies of Hitler's "Mein Kampf", which is banned in the country.
|
|
By AFP
Zagreb -
A Croatian school came under fire Tuesday for refusing to display an exhibition on Jewish diarist Anne Frank because it included panels on crimes committed by the country's World War II pro-Nazi regime.
|
|
By AFP
Buenos Aires -
An Argentine appeals court ordered a new investigation Thursday into charges that ex-president Cristina Kirchner obstructed a probe into a 1994 bombing that killed 85 people at a Jewish community center.
|
|
By AFP
Den Haag -
Anne Frank may have been discovered "by chance" and not because she was denounced to Holland's Nazi overlords by unknown betrayers as long thought, the museum in her honour says.
|
|
By AFP
Varsovia -
Maybe they should have said "Pardonu, li ne estas fama sufiĉa" -- which is of course Esperanto for "Sorry, he's not famous enough".
|
|
By AFP
Munich -
A German court Thursday threw out a challenge to the will of collector Cornelius Gurlitt, clearing the way for a spectacular Nazi-era art hoard found in his home to go to a Swiss museum.
|
|
By AFP
Brussels -
The Belgian authorities have freed on bail a Frenchman suspected of helping in the May 2014 attack at the Brussels Jewish Museum, which left four people dead, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
|
|
By AFP
Haarlem -
A very rare handwritten poem by Jewish diarist Anne Frank goes under the auctioneer's hammer Wednesday, amid a flurry of interest which may push the price well above the 30,000 euros ($32,000) reserve.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
The Jewish director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which campaigns against anti-Semitism and other bigotry, said Friday that he would register as a Muslim if Donald Trump establishes a database of Muslims in America.
|
|
By AFP
Poland -
Things are looking good for a group of unusual treasure hunters who have already removed dozens of items from a small wooden cabin in southern Poland.
|
|
By AFP
Den Haag -
An "extremely rare" handwritten poem by Anne Frank, penned shortly before she went into hiding from the Nazis, is to be auctioned and could fetch up to 50,000 euros ($55,000), the auctioneers said Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Kiev -
A sombre Ukraine on Thursday marked 75 years since the Nazis slaughtered 34,000 Jews on the outskirts of Kiev during one of the worst single massacres of the Holocaust.
|
|
By AFP
Kiev -
"We were gathered here, and sent along 'the path to death'," says Raisa Maistrenko, pointing to a Kiev ravine that 75 years ago witnessed one of the worst atrocities of World War II.
|
|
By AFP
Strasbourg -
A mentally disturbed man shouting "Allahu Akbar" stabbed a Jewish man in the northeastern French city of Strasbourg on Friday, police and Jewish community sources said.
|
|
By AFP
Varsovia -
The family of the late Jewish-Polish protagonist of Oscar-winning Holocaust film "The Pianist" said Monday they had won an appeal against defamation over claims in a book that he was a Nazi collaborator.
|
|
By AFP
Varsovia -
They survived the Holocaust, and held on to their love of life despite their childhood ordeal -- and in their twilight years, now living in the United States, they started a band.
|
|
By AFP
Varsovia -
President Andrzej Duda on Monday pledged to fight racism and anti-Semitism 70 years after dozens of Polish Holocaust survivors were massacred in a brutal pogrom.
|
|
By AFP
Varsovia -
The Auschwitz museum said Tuesday it has recovered 16,000 long-lost items belonging to Jews killed at the Nazi death camp, decades after they were stored away and forgotten by Poland's former communist regime.
|
|
By AFP
Le Raincy -
When Alain Benhamou walked into his apartment near Paris in July 2015 and saw the words "dirty Jew" scrawled on the wall, he knew it was time to leave.
|
|
By AFP
Djerba -
An annual Jewish pilgrimage to Africa's oldest synagogue got under way in Tunisia where security forces were deployed heavily to ward off potential jihadist attacks.
|
|
By AFP
Oswiecim -
A gold ring and necklace hidden by an Auschwitz prisoner in a false-bottomed mug for fear of looting by German Nazis has been discovered at site of the death camp, the Auschwitz museum said Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Paris -
Two French groups say they have filed a suit against Twitter, YouTube and Facebook for allegedly failing to uphold requirements to delete content deemed racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic or defending terrorism.
|
|
By AFP
Marseille -
A French teacher who pretended to have been the victim of anti-Semitic violence by supporters of the Islamic State group days after November's attacks in Paris received a six-month suspended sentence on Thursday.
|
apis-334637 apis-333190 apis-331995 apis-331709 apis-330292 apis-330041 apis-328089 apis-327531 apis-325881 apis-324053 apis-323285 apis-323236 apis-323130 apis-321480 apis-321368 apis-321226 apis-321139 apis-319997 apis-317031 apis-316868 apis-313724 apis-312302 apis-311962 apis-309960 apis-307926 apis-307351 apis-306873 apis-306343 apis-306100 apis-305811
Jews Image
Selection of Jews at the ramp in Auschwitz-II (Birkenau) German Nazi death camp, May/June 1944 WWII Image
Reproduction of an oil painting: Pesach Seder. File image
Railway lines at Perrache train station, Lyon France, from which many Jews were deported to Nazi death camps during WWII
Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau
Kristallnacht, also to referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, was a pogrom or series of attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on November 9–10, 1938. Photo: Germans pass broken window of Jewish-owned shop. USHMM
Train to Nazi extermination camps
.jpg)
The Topographie des Terrors, Berlin.
.jpg)
The Topographie des Terrors, Berlin.
HOLY: The interior of Jerusalem's Kehilat Bnei Torah synagogue is shown during religious services in 2009. Friends of Kehilat Bnei Torah - Har Nof
Plaque at Perrache train station, Lyon France, in honor of the thousands of Jews who were deported to Nazi death camps during WWII
.jpg)
The 65th anniversary of the liberation of the woman Nazi camp of Ravensbrück on April 10, 2010
.jpg)
The Topographie des Terrors, Berlin.
.jpg)
The 65th anniversary of the liberation of the woman Nazi camp of Ravensbrück on April 10, 2010
"I am joking, the dog will not eat you." YouTube/NRG
Railways lines at Perrache train station, Lyon France, from which thousands of Jews were deported to Nazi death camps during WWII
.jpg)
The Topographie des Terrors, Berlin.
General Pétain meeting Adolf Hitler in October 1940 Wikicommons
Memorial for the victims of Nazi extermination camps
Jews on a selection ramp at Auschwitz, are shown in this archival photo taken in May 1944 Wikicommons
Dedicative plaque at Perrache train station, Lyon France, in honor of the SNCF railwaymen who died fighting the Nazis who had invaded France during WWII
|
|
