The Belgian Prime Minister said the country has been “complicit in the most abominable crime” by deporting tens of thousands of Jewish people to Nazi concentration camps during the war.
John Demjanjuk, a retired autoworker in the US, had been charged with 28,060 counts of being an accessory to murder – one for every person who died at the concentration camp he was a guard at.
On Holocaust Memorial Day, Justice Minister Alan Shatter writes that we should not assume that the type of horror created by the Nazi killing machine could not be repeated in the future.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews used the outfits to protest criticism of their strict lifestyle is a new form of ‘incitement’ and is ‘reminiscient of the German media before WWII’.
Twelve men are on the list of the most wanted Nazi-era war criminals, compiled by a Jewish human rights organisation. The hunt continues after a Nazi death camp guard was convicted this week.
Trial of John Demjanjuk could not find specific evidence to show he killed Sobibor concentration camp victims – but proved that his work there showed he was an accessory to death.
Project described as a “last minute rescue operation” to preserve the memories of Jewish people killed in WWII begins collecting items saved and cherished by surviving family members.
The actress says that Gibson made homophobic and anti-semitic remarks to her during a party 15 years ago – including calling her an “oven dodger”, in reference to her Jewish heritage.
THE MAN at the centre of a viral video which showed him dancing with his family at the sites of major Nazi concentration camps has defended his work.
Adolek Kohn (89) was featured in a video that showed him dancing with four younger members of his family at camps including Auschwitz and Dachau, to the tune of Gloria Gaynor’s 1978 disco hit ‘I Will Survive’.
The video – made by Kohn’s daughter as an art project – has since been removed from YouTube following a copyright claim, but not before Jewish community leaders attacked the ‘offensive’ and ‘inappropriate’ video.
Speaking from Melbourne where he now lives, Kohn explained:
Why did I do that? First of all because I came with my grandchildren. Who could come with their grandchildren? Most of them are dead.
We came to Auschwitz with the grandchildren and created a new generation. That’s why we danced.
“It’s extremely difficult to judge Holocaust survivors in places like that,” said Piotr Kadlcik. “Maybe he needs it; maybe it was important for him to do something like that.
“If someone else were to do it, I would find it highly inappropriate, but in the case of someone who is Jewish and who is a Holocaust survivor… these people lived through things that we, fortunately, cannot imagine.”
One commenter on the YouTube video said it was “disrespectful to all those who perished”, while others described the joyful video as a “life-affirming middle finger to the Nazis”.
A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, his daughter and grandchildren have made rather a unique memorial to those who survived the Nazi death camps. Three generations of the family danced to “I Will Survive” at a number of concentration camps in Europe.
At the end of the video a voiceover, presumably that of the elderly man at the centre of the video, says:
“If someone would tell me here, then, that I would come sixty something years later with my grandchildren, so I’d say, “What you talking about?” So here you are. this is really a historical moment.”
SIXTY-EIGHT PER cent of patients are unaware that they can officially complain about their hospital stay.
An Irish Society for Quality and Safety in Healthcare survey revealed that although 93 per cent of the patients surveyed were satisfied with the service they received, one in every five wanted to discuss an area of dissatisfaction but a third felt they never had the opportunity to do so.
The aspects of care that patients were most dissatisfied with included emergency department conditions and waiting times and lack of information about hospital routines, tests, medication side effects and after-care.
So today we want to know: Have you ever lodged a complaint about a hospital?
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Controversial movie director Lars von Trier banned from Cannes over Hitler comments
The Danish director said he thought he understood “the man” and “sympathises with him a little bit”.
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