Vienna official says city has returned nearly 6,000 art, other objects looted by Nazis

(2013)
22.05.2013 (The Washington Post) -- VIENNA — An official for the city of Vienna says the Austrian capital has handed over nearly 6,000 valuable objects looted by the Nazis to their rightful owners or their heirs since it started taking inventory of them 14 years ago.
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Global anti-Semitism report: Iran denied Holocaust again

(2013)
21.05.2013 (Ynet News, by Yitzhak Benhorin) -- US State Department report says 2012 saw sharp rise in anti-Semitism worldwide: Egyptian president said 'amen' during anti-Jewish prayer, and Iran's Ahmadinejad said 'horrendous Zionist clan' ruling major world affairs.
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Hundreds protest anti-Semitism in Malmo

(2013)
21.05.2013 (Ynet News) -- Jews, people of other faiths march in southern Swedish city, which has large immigrant Muslim community, to bring attention to intolerance, anti-Semitic attacks in Nordic country.
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Life After the Holocaust, at 90 and Beyond

(2013)
21.05.2013 (Forward.com, by Rachel Rosmarin, edited by Abigail Jones) -- Searching for Strategies To Help Scarred Survivors Age With Grace.
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US names envoy to combat anti-Semitism, warns of rising incidents

(2013)
21.05.2013 (Reuters, by Lesley Wroughton; Editing by Cynthia Osterman) -- The United States on Monday appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism as a new State Department report warned about incidents in Venezuela, Egypt and Iran.
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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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