Warsaw ghetto insurgent Boruch Spiegel dies at 93

(2013)
21.05.2013 (Haaretz, by Reuters) -- Spiegel was one of about 750 Jewish fighters who on April 19, 1943, launched an uprising that took the Germans off guard.
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Claims Conference considers action to quell 2001 Holocaust restitution scandal

(2013)
20.05.2013 (Haaretz, by JTA) -- Allegations concern an anonymous letter sent to Frankfurt office that identified five cases in which restitution was approved for ineligible claimants.
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Holocaust Documentary Details Bogus Town Set Up By Nazis And Run By Jews

(2013)
19.05.2013 (Business Insider Australia, AFP) -- When your enemy is sworn to exterminate every one of you, can you — should you — try to cut a deal with him to at least save some lives knowing that others are doomed?
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Report: Czech anti-Semitism fairly low

(2013)
19.05.2013 (Ynet News, by Associated Press) -- New study by Prague's Jewish community says there were no physical attacks, direct threats against Jews in republic registered last year, yet there was an increase in attacks on Internet.
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Christian churches back Hungarian Jews

(2013)
17.05.2013 (Ynet News, original media Reuters) - With anti-Semitism on the rise, churches are working with Jewish community to counter provocations against Jews, Roma minority that have won radical right-wing party support among voters fed up with country's economic crisis.
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Polish walkway named for woman who saved Jews

(2013)
16.05.2013 (Haaretzm, byPolish officials honor Irena Sendler, a Polish woman credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust.
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Churches back Jews facing anti-Semitism in Hungary

(2013)
14.05.2013 (The Jerusalem Post, by Reuters) -- Christian churches work with Jewish community to counter anti-Semitic provocations that have won support for far-right.
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Holocaust survivor shares his story

(2013)
14.05.2013 (The Curier, by Coleen McCarthy) -- Irving Roth was just 14 years old in the spring of 1944 when he stepped off a crowded train and into Auschwitz, a Nazi concentration camp in Poland.
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PBS documentary examines Holocaust survivor’s religion of persistence

(2013)
13.05.2013 (The Washington Post, by Menachem Wecker) -- Sometimes mundane, seemingly innocuous details can best impress the enormity of a tragedy on those who didn’t experience it.
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A Final Effort to Find Nazi War Criminals

(2013)
09.05.2013 (National Geographic News, by Diane Cole) - The arrest of an Auschwitz guard is part of Germany's last attempt to bring the aged men to justice.
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