Have some Jewish groups gone too far by trying to silence their opponents?
Is silencing hate an effective strategy for combating anti-Semitism, or is it doing more harm than good?
The dark history of a quaint mountain town on the banks of the Rhine
It seemed like a quaint tourist town. But, as one visitor discovered, it has become a mausoleum for local Jews who met a violent end.
Canada’s dismal record on fighting Nazi war criminals
When the definitive book is written about Canada’s historical record of dealing with Nazi war criminals and their enablers in our midst, there will be some heroes, but mostly a lot of shame.
Ghosts of Jewish Warsaw don’t haunt the city, but murmur in background
Warsaw’s Jewish cemetery is more an open-air museum than a graveyard. Hundreds of barely legible, moss-covered tombstones, crooked with age, compete with house-sized mausoleums of the well-to-do.
Nazi-hunting journalist was ‘passionate defender of the Jewish community’
Sol Littman, a former Jewish communal professional who tracked Nazi war criminals and once served as a top editor at The CJN, died Jan. 2 at his home in Tucson, Ariz., at age 96
A Canadian soldier at Bergen-Belsen
Pte. 1st Class Sol Goldberg was among the Canadian forces providing vital medical and logistical support after Bergen-Belsen’s liberation on April 15, 1945
Polish gov’t worked to save Jews from Nazi persecution
The objective of The Council to Aid Jews, code-named Zegota, was also to counter anti-Semitism within the Polish community, says Prof. Joshua Zimmerman
Auctioning Hitler’s socks and Goering’s underwear
A Nazi memorabilia collection recent sold for more than $860,000 to a buyer from Argentina, containing Goering’s monogrammed loincloth and Hitler’s socks
Ecuadorian prison warden reprimanded for marking visitors with Nazi stamp
Ecuador’s Justice Ministry said a prison warden was disciplined for negligence after it was found that guards used a Nazi-themed hand stamp to mark visitors to the jail
Concentration camps and apfelstrudel
Five years ago, Betsy and I took a cycling holiday along the Swiss Rhine. The memory of my late mother’s cakes, intensified by kilometres of cycling along beautiful vistas, made me search obsessively for apfelstrudel. The manager of our last hotel corrected my error. “This is Switzerland. Strudel is Austrian. For strudel, go to Austria.” […]
