22.03.2013 (Haaretz.com, written by Ofer Aderet) -- Bundestag jettisons amendment to 2002 law, tabled by the opposition, which would have required retroactive payments to Holocaust survivors who had worked in the country's ghettos.
Lapid orders additional NIS 50 million for Holocaust survivors
(2013)22.3.2013 (israelhayom.com) -- Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid's first move as finance minister is to increase the budget of the Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims in Israel • Move said to be included in party's coalition deal.
Finance Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday ordered the immediate transfer of 50 million shekels (about $13.6 million) to the Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims in Israel.
The directive was Lapid's first since taking office on Tuesday.
A New Lease on Life for the Mysterious Lost Bank Accounts of Switzerland
(2013) 21.3.2013 (Helena Bachmann, world.time.com) -- A sign sits on display outside the headquarters of the Swiss National Bank in Bern, Switzerland on March 8, 2012.
Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Year 2014
(2013) 21.3.2013 (xpatloop.com) -- In early 2013, the Government of Hungary set up a Memorial Committee in order to properly commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian Holocaust, an important step towards facing our history.
Nazi looted art is returned to rightful owner
(2013) 20.03.2013 (BBC; written by Beth McLeod) -- A man from the US has been reunited with six valuable paintings that were stolen by the Nazis from his grandfather nearly eight decades ago.
Finer-Grained Data Transform Our Understanding Of The Holocaust
(2013) 13.03.2013 (Forbes; written by Geoffrey Kabat) -- Sixty-eight years after the end of World War II, a massive, painstaking collation of hitherto untapped local data has transformed our understanding of the Holocaust.
New museum of Polish Jews unveils its treasures
(2013) 13.03.2013 (Times of Oman, original story by AFP) -- The new museum is being built in the heart of the Polish capital on the site of the Jewish ghetto that became a symbol of resistance to Nazi Germany's efforts to eradicate 1,000 years of Jewish presence in Poland.
Designed by Finnish architects Rainer Mahlamaeki and Ilmar Lahdelma, the new museum faces the imposing black-stone Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial dedicated to those who perished in the doomed 1943 Jewish revolt against the Nazis.
Holocaust exhibit asks viewers to 'Learn and Remember'
(2013) 12.03.2013 (Mysanantonio.com; written by Elda Silva) -- Housed in the Mazal family home in San Antonio, the Mazal Holocaust History Library has a collection of more than 20,000 books and periodicals and more than half a million documents, microfilms and photographs, all amassed by the self-taught historian and researcher who devoted much of his life to discrediting Holocaust deniers.
Macedonia Remembers Tiny Jewish Community
(2013) 11.03.2013 (AP, abcnews.com) -- Macedonia on Monday marked the 70th anniversary of the deportation of nearly its entire Jewish community to a Nazi death camp during World War II, while a U.S.-based diaspora group called on neighbor Bulgaria to apologize for its role in the Holocaust.
Warsaw authorities okay restoring Jewish cemetery
(2013) 7.3.2013 (Nissan Tzur, Jerusalem Post) -- Brodno cemetery established in 1780, but fell victim to Nazi devastation in 1940 after German invasion of Poland.
