06.05.2013 (Haaretz, Judy Maltz) -- WJC delegates elect Chella Safra as the new treasurer and David de Rothschild as chairman of the board; the Plenary Assembly re-elects Ronald S. Lauder as president in Budapest on Monday.
Austria Faces Past in Nazi Camp's New Museum
(2013) 05.05.2013 (Israel National News) -- Austria's new Holocaust museum reflects country's struggle with its national past.
Hungary’s prime minister vows ‘zero tolerance’ for anti-Semitism, fails to impress Jewish meet
(2013) 05.05.2013 (The Washington Post) -- BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary’s prime minister told an international assembly of Jews on Sunday that his government has declared “zero tolerance” on anti-Semitism, but his speech failed to impress those gathered who said he has failed to confront the country’s largest far-right party.
Oldest Holocaust Survivor Passes On
(2013) 05.05.2013 -- Reuters reports Leopold Engleitner, the oldest known survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, has died at the age of 107, his biographer said.
Nazis may have killed up to 20m, claims 'shocking' new Holocaust study
(2013) 04.05.2013 (The Telegraph, by Matthew Day) -- The Nazi Holocaust may have claimed up to 20 million lives, a figure far greater than previous estimates, new research has revealed.
Collector says Sotheby’s sold him Nazi-owned art—now it's unsellable
(2013) 02.05.2013 (The Art Newspaper, by Laura Gilbert) -- Uncertainty over whether the work, once owned by Goering, was looted means that auction houses don't want to put it on the block.
Growing Anti-Semitism: World Jewish Congress Takes on Hungary
(2013) 02.05.2013 (Der Spiegel, by Keno Verseck) -- In symbolic protest of growing anti-Semitism in Hungary, the World Jewish Congress will meet in Budapest this weekend. This has angered Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who plans to address the assembly about the criticism. But no amount of talk can erase the fact that right-wing extremism is on the rise there.
Holocaust Educational Trust gets £500,00 for Auschwitz visits
(2013) 02.05.2013 (BBC News) -- More than £500,000 is to be awarded to a scheme which gives schoolchildren the chance to visit the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
MKs file bills for Holocaust survivors´rights
(2013) 02.05.2013 (The Jerusalem Post, by Danielle Ziri) -- Bills awaiting approval, propose to combat Holocaust survivors' poverty, implement entitlements to rights, benefits.
Holocaust survivors hold long-awaited bar mitzvas
(2013) 01.05.2013 (The Jerusalem Post, by Danielle Ziri) -- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Israel organizes initiative to help survivors celebrate 70 years late.
