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Muslim religious leaders meet with Holocaust survivors in Poland
Muslim religious leaders from across the globe met with Holocaust survivors and their saviours in an emotional encounter Tuesday at Warsaw’s synagogue, as part of an anti-genocide programme that includes a visit to Auschwitz. “Today, we’ve met real people who suffered the Holocaust and the heroes that saved them at…
Germany to sign new benefits accord for Nazi victims
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said a new agreement he will sign Thursday with the Jewish Claims Conference will help Holocaust survivors who had never received compensation. Schaeuble and JCC chief Julius Berman are to mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Luxembourg Agreement in which West Germany…
Pioneer of Israel’s settler movement dies
Hanan Porat, a former Israeli parliamentarian who was a driving force behind the Jewish settlement movement in the West Bank, died of cancer on Tuesday, his family said. He was 67. Born in 1943 in British Mandate Palestine, he was raised on a kibbutz built by Holocaust survivors near the West Bank town of Bethlehem which was later…
Holocaust survivors condemn Glenn Beck’s ‘monstrous’ report on Soros
Rosenberg: ‘Glenn Beck era will likely end sooner than expected’ Holocaust survivors and prominent Jewish groups are targeting Fox News personality Glenn Beck for his claim that billionaire George Soros helped in the effort to exterminate Jews during World War II. Some political observers are wondering whether Beck may have…
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