By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press, PRAGUE May 17, 2012 (AP) -- A major European Jewish organization is urging European governments to quickly adopt measures to tackle anti-Semitism and far-right extremism, including possibly banning a hardline Greek party that did unusually well in recent elections.
Lithuania reburial of WWII leader angers Jewish groups
(2012) May 17, 2012 (BBC) -- Jewish groups in Lithuania have condemned the government for financing the reburial of an ex-prime minister who headed the Baltic state in 1941.
Holocaust Survivor and Scholar Lustiger Dies at 88
(2012) BERLIN May 16, 2012 (AP) -- Germany's Central Council of Jews says Holocaust survivor and scholar Arno Lustiger has died at age 88.
Greek Far Right Party Blasted on Holocaust Comment
(2012) ATHENS, Greece May 15, 2012 (AP) -- Greece's government on Tuesday strongly criticized the leader of an extreme right party who claimed that Nazi concentration camps did not use ovens and gas chambers to kill prisoners during the Holocaust.
Hebrew novel wins fiction prize
(2012) Holocaust survivor Aharon Appelfeld has become the oldest recipient of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize at the age of 80.
Political, social turmoil worries Hungary’s Jews
(2012) The debate over anti-Semitism in Hungary has sharpened since the anti-Israel, anti-Jewish and anti-Roma (Gypsy) Jobbik movement entered Parliament two years ago as the country’s third largest party.
Playing to live: Pianist survived Holocaust by performing for Nazis
(2012) By Moni Basu, CNN -- Zhanna Arshanskaya Dawson's name is etched on the wall of a stark underground memorial in Ukraine, next to that of her sister, Frina, their parents and grandparents. She was presumed dead, like the 16,000 other Jews from Kharkov who perished under the Nazis in the winter of 1941.
Commentary by Jindřich Šídlo: Where Czech PM Nečas won't be on Sunday, even though he should be Prague, 11.5.2012 21:04, (iHNed.cz)
(2012) Seventy kilometers south of Prague you will find a place - Lety u Písku - that Czechs have done their best to forget for a long time. Today they can no longer deny it, despite the fact that they very much dislike remembering what started happening there 70 years ago. This is basically no different than what political elites here have always done.
Mystery Photo Album Reveals an Unseen WWII
(2012) After the end of World War II, Paul Sadler returned home to Chicago with three German books and a photo album from the Dachau concentration camp.
It was the photo album that caught his son’s attention about 60 years later. And he began to piece together the story behind the wartime pictures, many of which were taken in the Soviet Union.
Holocaust denier quits SARB
(2012) Controversial South African Reserve Bank (SARB) shareholder Stephen Goodson has quit as a director of the central bank.
