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UN docs show 'allies knew of Holocaust years before' finding concentration camps     
https://www.rt.com/news/385155-holocaust-un-war-crime-files/

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Just put "london highest antisemitic rate" into a search engine, after seeing a report on RT, and, just look at what came up.   One person, in a lifetime, couldn't read all of the shit they are putting out.  They have an absolute ARMY of jews and jew-stooges generating propaganda.   

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=london+highest+antisemitic+rate&t=hb&ia=images

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Straight out of central casting.


Anti-Semitism dramatically increases across US, says ADL
https://www.rt.com/usa/419979-adl-anti-semitism-increase-report/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

The US witnessed an unprecedented spike in anti-Semitism in 2017, according to the Anti-Defamation League, with vandalism and school incidents leading the list. Some of the incidents, however, were fake.

There were almost 2000 anti-Semitic incidents reported across the US in 2017, including physical assaults, bomb threats, vandalism, and attacks on Jewish institutions, according to a report released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday.

The number of anti-Semitic incidents in 2017 increased by 57 percent compared to 2016, the single largest increase on record and the second-highest number reported since ADL started keeping track in 1979, the organization said. Incidents of vandalism increased 86 percent from 2016, with 952 incidents recorded.

"These incidents came at a time when we saw a rising climate of incivility, the emboldening of hate groups and widening divisions in society," said ADL's CEO and National Director Jonathan A. Greenblatt.

The report reveals that the number of anti-Semitic incidents soared in schools and on college campuses, nearly doubling for the second year in a row. College campuses witnessed a total of 204 incidents in 2017, compared to 108 incidents in 2016.

The vast majority of the incidents fell under the category of "harassment," which the ADL defines as "where a Jewish person or group of people feel harassed by the perceived anti-Semitic words, spoken or written, or actions of someone else."

This category includes the 163 bomb threats against Jewish community centers. However, the vast majority of those were actually made by a Jewish teenager living in Israel who was eventually arrested. US federal authorities also believe that the teenager was selling his services on the dark web.

Another half-dozen bomb scares directed at the Jewish community were made by an American journalist, who was imprisoned after he admitted to sending Jewish groups bomb threats in order to intimidate his ex-girlfriend.

Without these threats, the total number of harassment cases would be 852, which is still an 18 percent increase over the 2016 figure, the ADL said. Yet the cases were included in the total count "because, regardless of the motivation of any specific perpetrator, Jewish communities were repeatedly traumatised by these assaults on their institutions and threats to their safety," ADL said, noting that they "meet the textbook definition of hate crimes."

The League says that it "is careful to not conflate general criticism of Israel or anti-Israel activism with anti-Semitism." It does include "cases of picketing of Jewish religious or cultural institutions for purported support for Israel" as incidents of anti-Semitism, however.

The ADL is a US-based, Jewish, pro-Israel organization that is dedicated to eradicating anti-Semitic hate crime. The organization previously attacked the boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS) movement designed to put pressure on Israel over its 50-year military occupation of the West Bank.

"At its core BDS is an anti-Semitic movement." Greenblatt argued at the UN in May 2016.

It is unclear whether the ADL includes pressure from BDS in its definition of anti-Semitism. Given the fact that the BDS movement is frequently active on college campuses, this could significantly alter the number of recorded harassment incidents.

The FBI's latest data on hate crimes, released in November 2017, showed a three percent increase in anti-Semitic hate crime from 2015 to 2016. Anti-Semitic incidents accounted for just over half of religious hate crimes and about 11 percent of all hate crimes, according to 2016 FBI figures.

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Holocaust survivor subjected to 'demeaning' body search by TSA agents
https://www.rt.com/usa/420538-auschwitz-survivor-demeaning-tsa-screening/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

A Holocaust survivor claims she was subjected to a "very demeaning body search" by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The ordeal took place after she gave a lecture on her experiences in Auschwitz.

Eva Mozes Kor was forced to undergo an extremely intrusive body search before she was allowed to board her flight home after she gave a lecture in Albuquerque, New Mexico over the weekend. According to CBS News, the 84-year-old Kor stands at four feet nine inches tall and uses a walker to get around; hardly the kind of person that presents a clear threat to national security.

Another very demeaning body search by the TSA - there has to be some way that  at age 84 I can get some clearance by the POWERS   of Government from this procedure. As I lecture about surviving Auschwitz I barely survive the TSA body search I detest it. That ruined my experience

"There has to be some way that at age 84 I can get some clearance by the POWERS of government from this procedure," she tweeted. "As I lecture about surviving Auschwitz, I barely survive the TSA body search. I detest it."

Kor had just delivered a lecture on her experiences during the Holocaust, where she endured inhumane scientific human experiments conducted by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, also known as the 'Angel of Death.' She was just 10 years old at the time.

Kor and her family were taken from their home in Romania and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Her parents didn't survive, but Kor and her twin sister Miriam managed to survive both the brutal conditions and the inhumane experiments. Kos would later donate a kidney to her sister.

Kor later moved Indiana in the US where she became famous as an activist and established the Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors (CANDLES) Holocaust Museum. A documentary film about her life and how she came to terms with her ordeal and ultimately learned to forgive her Nazi captors is due to be released in April.

The TSA is notorious for its heavy-handed security procedures and it has often come under intense public scrutiny and criticism since its inception in November 2001, as a response to the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US.

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These images from the Holocaust are even more chilling in color
https://nypost-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/nypost.com/2018/03/15/these-images-from-the-holocaust-are-even-more-chilling-in-color/amp/?amp_js_v=0.1#webview=1


Artist Marina Amaral restored this heartbreaking photo of Auschwitz prisoner Czesława Kwoka.
Courtesy of Marina Amaral

These harrowing pictures of a teenage girl awaiting her torture and death at the hands of Nazi torture specialists lay bare the tragic human toll of the Holocaust.

The gaunt face of 14-year-old prisoner Czesława Kwoka stares back through time in a haunting Auschwitz mugshot restored this year by Brazilian artist Marina Amaral.

Taken just minutes after she was beaten to within an inch of her life, the images give a human face to one of the concentration camp's 1.1 million victims.

The painstakingly recolored photos show the teenager trying to hold back tears after being repeatedly struck by a guard's club.

Kwoka was dragged away from her home in southeastern Poland to create living space for ethnic Germans at the height of Nazi domination.

She had the number 26947 tattooed on her arm on arrival, before being savagely beaten by guards as she was dragged off to have her photo taken.

She died 67 days later after Auschwitz scientists injected deadly phenol directly into her heart without using an anesthetic.


Courtesy of Marina Amaral

"When we see the photos in black and white, we get the feeling that those events happened only in the history books," Amaral said.

"By restoring the colors on her face, I was able to show the colors of the blood and the bruises, which made everything even more real.

"These people were human beings who had dreams, ambitions, fears, friends, family, and had all this taken from them.

"Unfortunately, Czeslawa was just one among millions of others, but the expression on her face – so much fear, and at the same time so much courage, will stay with me forever."

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Damn those Deutschlanders, they won't surrender a seat on the UN Security Council to Israhell. 

Germany's shameless power play against Israel
https://nypost-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/nypost.com/2018/03/19/germanys-shameless-power-play-against-israel/amp/?amp_js_v=0.1#webview=1

Remember when the new Germany was keen to put its historical baggage behind it and be Israel's best friend in Europe?

That was then. Now Berlin is set to block a historic chance for raising the Jewish state's international profile.

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But Germany is unlikely to withdraw. So, unless Belgium yields, Israel's hopes for UN respect seem doomed for now — and maybe for the foreseeable future.

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...Thus, Israel's petition to join the most prestigious UN club will likely be rejected, thanks to a late entry by a shameless, clueless, cynical German power play against the Jewish state.

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Israeli teen arrested & fined for urinating on Auschwitz memorial
https://www.rt.com/news/422073-israel-teen-auschwitz-urination/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

An Israeli teenager was reportedly arrested at the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum for urinating on a victims' memorial in the former Nazi concentration camp. The unidentified 19-year-old was taken into custody on Wednesday.

At around 1pm local time the student, who was part of a visiting tour, was spotted by a guide at the former death camp urinating on the steps of a monument. He was subsequently detained and questioned by police before paying a fine of more than €1,100 for the act, according to TVP Polonia.

Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp built by Germany's Nazi Party as part of their effort to exterminate prisoners following the outbreak of World War II. The network of camps was a major cog in the Holocaust and Hitler's plan to murder Jews.

It's estimated that more than 1.1 million men, women and children were gassed and killed at the camp. Under Polish law anyone who "insults a monument or public place decorated to commemorate a historical event... shall be subject to a fine or imprisonment."

According to local media, the teenager was released after being questioned by investigators. The site in Oswiecim has previously been subject to bizarre and disrespectful behavior; in March 2017 a group of so-called artists slaughtered a sheep at the camp.

The offence occurred at the entrance to the infamous Nazi concentration camp, when a dozen young people in their 20s undressed and chained themselves to the gates. They killed the sheep by stabbing it over a dozen times in the heart. The incident resulted in fines and prison terms for those found to have staged the performance.

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Austrian diplomat recalled from Israel for wearing 'Nazi' shirt
https://www.rt.com/news/422080-austria-diplomat-nazi-shirt/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

Austria's Foreign Ministry has recalled an employee from its embassy in Israel after he posted a photo of himself on Facebook wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the name of a Nazi tank division.

Weekly news magazine Falter published screengrabs of Jürgen-Michael Kleppich wearing a green shirt bearing the words "Stand your ground" and "Frundsberg". Frundsberg is a reference to the 10th SS Panzer Division during World War II. The division was named after the 16th century German commander Georg von Frundsberg. Kleppich's Facebook account has since been deleted.

The controversial shirt is sold by Phalanx Europa, a clothing brand that specializes in "patriotic" apparel and markets itself as an online store for the identitarian, white nationalist, movement. Falter also reported that Kleppich previously posted a photo of his grandfather in a Nazi uniform.

Kleppich has been summoned to Vienna to "clarify all circumstances" surrounding his wearing of the shirt, Austria's foreign minister, Karin Kneissl, told the ORF radio station. "If there is a disciplinary cause, a disciplinary procedure will be initiated," she said.

The attaché is also reportedly a member of the right wing Freedom Party which is a junior partner in Austria's coalition government. The party has been at the center of several Nazi-related allegations in recent years. Earlier this year a party official was forced to resign after it emerged that his fraternity published a songbook praising the Holocaust.

The state of Israel has said it will not have any direct contact with politicians from the party, which controls Austria's foreign, interior and defense ministries as part of its government formation pact with the larger People's Party.

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Coco Chanel was Definitely a Nazi
http://www.messynessychic.com/2012/04/03/coco-chanel-was-definitely-a-nazi/

But I don't think we've really heard enough about it. I don't really think we got a firm grip on the fact that today's most coveted handbags, perfumes and tweed jackets are the creations of  a confirmed Nazi spy who cavorted with SS officers at the Hotel Ritz throughout the war and became the richest woman in the world thanks to the Nazi seizure of all Jewish-owned property and business enterprises.     

Let's think a little:  now, according to this, she designed the "most coveted" items for wealthy women, but, she didn't earn her wealth through talent and skill and effort.  No, of course not: the Nazis stole it from the jews, and gave it to her.   

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Recently discovered journal reveals tragic story of Poland's Anne Frank
https://nypost-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/nypost.com/2018/03/25/recently-discovered-journal-gives-harrowing-insight-into-nazi-occupied-poland/amp/?amp_js_v=0.1#webview=1

"My dear diary, my dear beloved friend!" she wrote in her florid, schoolgirl script in one of the lined notebooks where she recorded her daily thoughts. "We went through such terrible times together and now the most terrible moment is upon us."

Renia, a Jewish student, had been separated from her parents and younger sister and secreted in an attic on the outskirts of the Jewish ghetto as the Nazis began their death-camp roundups.


"God, protect us all," wrote Renia. "Into your hands I commit myself. You will help me."

By the time she wrote those desperate words, Renia's diary — a journal of school exercise books that she had bound together with thread — was almost 700 pages long. She had started writing it when she was 15 at the end of January 1939, eight months before the German invasion of Poland led to the Second World War.

She kept writing as the chaos unfolded, and days after she recorded her last entry — July 25, 1942 — the diary disappeared.

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Holocaust survivor's body found charred, stabbed 11 times in Paris apartment
https://www.rt.com/news/422381-holocaust-survivor-stabbed-paris/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

A man was arrested after the body of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor was found in her incinerated Paris apartment with 11 stab wounds. French-Jewish groups are calling on police to find out if the crime was anti-Semitic.

The incident took place at the woman's home on Avenue Philippe Auguste in 11th arrondissement, Le Parisien reported, adding that suicide has been ruled out. The body was discovered on Friday.

The suspect in the attack, who was born in 1989, has been placed in custody, AFP reported, citing a judicial source.  According to a source close to the investigation, the first autopsy found stab wounds on the victim's body.

In a public statement on Sunday, the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA) said "up to 11 stab wounds" were found on the charred body of the woman, identified only as Mireille K.

The watchdog called for authorities to "make every effort to find and bring the perpetrator to justice," and to determine "whether it was an anti-Semitic crime as everything suggests."

French-Jewish representative group Conseil Representatif des Institutions juives de France (CRIF) also called for "total transparency in the current investigation, so that the motives for this barbaric crime are known to all as fast as possible."  The group's president, Francis Kalifat, said that he expressed the "emotion and the deep concern of the Jewish population of France."

However, French-Jewish politician Meyer Habib noted in a Facebook post on Sunday that the French authorities are "very careful about linking the murder to an anti-Semitic motive." He added that the Holocaust survivor's family has "no doubt about the anti-Semitic background of the incident."

Recalling the murder of 65-year-old retired school teacher Sarah Halimi, which shook the French Jewish community in April 2017, Habib said in his post that "for the Jews of France, the nightmare continues."

A Franco-Malian assailant beat Halimi to death in her before throwing her from a third-story window. The man, identified as Kada Traore, shouted religious slogans while murdering the woman. The apartment was also located in the 11th arrondissement.

Following months of debate, a French court finally ruled in February that the Halimi case would be prosecuted as an anti-Semitic hate crime.

"For Sarah, it took almost 10 months for the legal authorities to recognize the obvious reality. What about Mireille? The investigation has begun, but I am afraid that after Sarah, Mireille also fell victim to the hatred of Jews, which is increasingly seen in the suburbs, against the backdrop of Islamic radicalization, hatred of Israel but also hatred of France," Habib wrote.

A wave of anti-Semitic attacks in France began in January 2015, after 29 people were taken hostage in a kosher supermarket. By the end of the terrorist's siege, four people had been executed.  Ricard Abitbol, president of the Confederation of Jews in France and Friends of Israel told RT in January that anti-Semitic sentiment has been recently on the rise.

"Every day we have people who are hurt, every day we have people who are insulted. We can be hurt by words but we don't mind, but when we are hurt by a knife, a gun, you can't say I don't mind."

In December, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe acknowledged the problem, noting that "In our country, anti-Semitism is alive. It is not new, it is ancient. It is not superficial, it is well-rooted and it is alive."

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Discovery of Nazi graffiti in Italian parliament sparks outrage
https://www.rt.com/news/424493-nazi-graffiti-italy-parliament/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome



A Nazi slogan and swastika graffiti found on a bathroom door in the Italian houses of parliament has sparked outrage among politicians and on social media.

The discovery of a verse from one of the Wehrmacht's hymns 'Es braust unser panzer,' translated as 'Our tank roars,' triggered dismay among the deputies of the lower house of the Italian parliament at the Palazzo Montecitorio in Rome.

The verse was followed by a second engraving, possibly added as a response, which translates from Italian as 'go to hell...'.

The Nazi-linked etchings were reported to the newly-elected President of the Lower House of Parliament Roberto Fico. However, parliamentary dismay was nothing compared to the public outrage that followed as news of the Nazi graffiti went viral.

Twitter commentators were outraged, slamming the fascist engraving and calling for the culprit to be traced. "Swastika engraved in the Montecitorio bathrooms. It's a known fact that, just like cavemen, fascists communicate with graffiti," one Italian tweeted.

"Swastika in the bathrooms of our Parliament. Please have everyone who had access to that bathroom participate in a calligraphic expertise [handwriting analysis]. Everyone. And if there were external visitors, then they should take part in it as well. It should not end up like this. [We need] the name and the last name of who did this," said another.

Others on social media said the graffiti was unfit for somewhere like Palazzo Montecitorio, which should be "a sacred place for democracy and freedom and instead it is disgraced with such filth."

However, given the sheer number of visitors to the site – from parliamentary staff to journalists, and even students on guided tours – it would likely be impossible to trace who might be responsible for the engravings.

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Infowars never misses an opportunity to give us a daily reminder of holocaust hysteria

Hogg Angers HOLOCAUST Survivors & Relatives With Anti-Gun Book Title '#Never Again'

"You need to educate yourself on what that term was used for, what it means, and the people it represents"

In the few weeks since the Parkland shooting, anti-Second Amendment activist David Hogg, along with his sister, has written a book about "the foundation of this movement," promising that the proceeds will "help heal the community."

However, Hogg has angered survivors of the Holocaust, and the relatives, by using the term 'Never Again' as the book's title, a phrase that has been historically associated with the genocide committed by Nazis during World War Two.

The Hoggs sent out the following tweets Wednesday:

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It turns out, according to publisher Random House, that the rather vague promise of using the proceeds to "help heal the community," actually means that the money will be donated to anti-Second Amendment Bloomberg group Everytown for Gun Safety, which also had a large hand in organizing the March for Our Lives rally.

"This book is a manifesto for the movement begun that day, one that has already changed America–with voices of a new generation that are speaking truth to power, and are determined to succeed where their elders have failed," the description reads.

The 'Never Again' phrase regarding Parkland was forced into the public consciousness predominantly by CNN and a handful of anti-gun Parkland students.

Now it is being committed to print in book form, many more are unhappy about it.


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Missing Nazi Submarine Found Near Denmark; Spoiler: Hitler Is Probably Not Onboard
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/19/604169042/missing-nazi-submarine-found-near-denmark-spoiler-hitler-is-probably-not-on-boar

For more than 70 years historians have wondered what happened to a Nazi U-boat that disappeared after going "on the run" following the German surrender to Danish and Dutch forces at the end of World War II. And now there is an answer.

Researchers from the Sea War Museum Jutland, in northern Denmark, say they found the wrecked submarine earlier this month. Apparently, the U-3523, the most advanced sub of its day, has been partially buried in the seabed off the north coast of the country all along.

The discovery has put an end to decades of speculation that upon their defeat a crew of Nazis had used it to flee to South America. CBS reported some conspiracy theorists contended Adolf Hitler was with the officers who had been aboard and allegedly made it safely to Colombia.

"After the war, there were many rumors about top Nazis who fled in U-boats and brought Nazi gold to safety, and the U-3523 fed the rumors," the museum said in a statement published on its website.

"The Type XXI was the first genuine submarine that could sail submerged for a prolonged time, and the U-3523 had a range that would have allowed it to sail nonstop all the way to South America," officials said.

Researchers said no one knows what the intended destination of those onboard the submarine might have been. Nor is it currently evident whether it carries any valuables or additional passengers. What is certain is that all 58 crew members perished.

The museum reported the submarine was struck by British bombers on May 6, 1945, but the location given by the pilot at the time was off by 9 nautical miles. That explains how it went undiscovered for so long.

The museum used scanning technology to locate the sub, which was found 123 meters (404 feet) deep.

In the statement, the museum said:  U-3523 appeared on the screen during the museum's scan of the seabed ten nautical miles north of Skagen, and the picture was very surprising. Most unusual the whole fore part of the U-boat lies buried in the seabed, while the stern is standing 20 meters [66 feet] above the bottom.

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If you have a crock pot, or just any old pot that you throw stuff into to cook, you can blame Hitler.   

ON OCTOBER 1, 1933, GERMANS sat down to an unusually frugal Sunday lunch. For decades, even centuries, the norm had been a roast dinner, usually characterized by a great, bronzed hunk of animal, flanked by potatoes. This was the crowning glory of the week—a meal to be savored and celebrated. But that day, nine months after the Nazis first came to power, Germans ate simple, inexpensive food. Some ate Irish stew; others steaming pots of pea soup, made with Speck and dried beans. Another common dish was macaroni Milanese, a stodgy predecessor to mac and cheese flecked with a confetti of rosy ham. All these dishes had three important things in common: They were inexpensive; they were made in a single pot; and they had been officially sanctioned by the Nazis. 

The Forgotten Nazi History of 'One-Pot Meals'
Officials believed the stews and soups had the power to unite Germany.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/one-pot-meals-nazi-germany-eintopf

ON OCTOBER 1, 1933, GERMANS sat down to an unusually frugal Sunday lunch. For decades, even centuries, the norm had been a roast dinner, usually characterized by a great, bronzed hunk of animal, flanked by potatoes. This was the crowning glory of the week—a meal to be savored and celebrated. But that day, nine months after the Nazis first came to power, Germans ate simple, inexpensive food. Some ate Irish stew; others steaming pots of pea soup, made with Speck and dried beans. Another common dish was macaroni Milanese, a stodgy predecessor to mac and cheese flecked with a confetti of rosy ham. All these dishes had three important things in common: They were inexpensive; they were made in a single pot; and they had been officially sanctioned by the Nazis.

This was the Eintopfsonntag campaign—a Nazi push to make German families eat one-pot meals. Eventually, it would endure well into the Second World War and popularize these stews, soups, and pilafs in Germany for generations to come.

The impetus was an annual charity drive, the Winterhilfswerk, run by the Nazis to feed and clothe veterans and the poor throughout the winter. Wealthier Germans were expected to pitch in as much as they could, but actually getting people to cough up cash had proven challenging. So, in October 1933, the Nazis developed a new campaign centered around these one-pot meals.

A public Eintopf, in Worms, Germany, held to raise funds for the charity campaign. BUNDESARCHIV/CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
On the first Sunday of every month, they decreed, every German family should replace their traditional roast with a thriftier one-pot meal—an Eintopf, from the German ein Topf, or "one pot"—and set aside the savings for the charity drive. On those Sunday afternoons, collectors around the country knocked on doors to recuperate the money. Even families who didn't want to cook were expected to join in: Restaurants were legally obligated to offer appropriately inexpensive Eintopf meals at a reduced rate on the designated Sundays.

At least initially, Eintopfsonntagen were quite popular. People seem to have enjoyed the challenge of finding meals that fit the bill, and the campaign raised hundreds of thousands of Reichsmarks for charity.

Its popularity was aided by extensive government efforts. As gatekeepers to the German kitchen, housewives and mothers were especially targeted. In time, a whole genre of cookbooks for these kinds of recipes appeared, bolstered by suggestions in magazines and newspapers for one-pot meals. Sauerkraut with lard and broad beans was a classic example—traditional, inexpensive German food that used scraps of meat to canny effect. The government even released children's books about Eintopf and promotional photos of Adolf Hitler sitting down to a steaming pot of stew. The message was clear: Everyone is doing this, and participation is a national obligation.

The Blogger Quietly Preserving Maryland's Culinary History
In fact, while Hitler officially supported the campaign, he probably did not participate privately. By 1937, he was known internationally as a vegetarian, and had likely been eating a mostly plant-based diet for some time. While Eintopf meals were occasionally meatless, they often featured some bacon or beef. On top of that, Hitler vacillated between preferring a raw diet—he blamed cooked foods for cancer—or extravagant vegetarian meals, occasionally set off with spoonfuls of caviar. Eintopf recipes, on the other hand, were plain, stodgy, and always served hot.

But charity and thrift do not fully explain the Nazis' zeal for one-pot meals. There was an equally important allegorical element: A single pot meal was democratic and accessible, blurring class lines and undermining bourgeois eating culture. All across the country, Nazi propaganda materials theorized, people of the same race would eat the same diet at the same time: common sacrifice for a common purpose. More than that, writes Alice Weinreb in Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany, "Cooking in 'one pot' (ein Topf) was supposed to symbolize the Nazi creation of 'one people' (ein Volk), the crafting of a delicious casserole by combining diverse ingredients analogous to the uniting of the various native German peoples into a single and self-sustaining whole." (Of course, this so-called diversity—Prussian, Bavarian, Saxon—was as limited and homogenous as many of the suggested dishes.)

To take part in Eintopfsonntag, Germans had to experience deprivation for the good of the collective—a common, unifying Nazi theme. In a 1935 speech, Hitler castigated those who did not take part or give as much as they could to the Wintershilfswerk: "You have never known hunger yourself or you would know what a burden hunger is," he said. "Whoever does not participate is a characterless parasite of the German people." Those who greedily refused a day's abstinence were said to be "stealing" from the collective. As one regional report put it, "Just as faithful Christians unite in the holy sacrament of the Last Supper in service of their lord and master, so too does the National Socialist Germany celebrate this sacrificial meal as a solemn vow to the unshakeable people's community."

What went into the country's pots was equally symbolic. Eintopf recipes favored indigenous ingredients—root vegetables, dried fruit, German pork—and Nazi nutritionists claimed that the best way to nourish the Aryan body was through a racially appropriate diet. In practice, this meant German-grown potatoes and produce. One officially sanctioned cookbook was entitled: "Housewives, Now You Must Use What the Field Gives You! Healthy, Nourishing Meals from Native Soil."

The aesthetic of Eintopfsonntag similarly drew from a kind of manufactured nationalist nostalgia. Outside of certain northern regions, Eintopf meals had not been popular before the campaign, and the word was unheard of before 1930. Yet publicity campaigns included sentimental images of one-pot meals, eaten in the trenches of the First World War, and rosy-cheeked peasant families tucking into bowls of stew. In the simplicity of an Eintopf meal, Nazis presented a romantic, bourgeois view of some radical, agrarian future.

Over time, however, people grew disillusioned with the campaign. The rich wanted their lavish roasts back, and the poor resented the loss of income. In the underground press, countercultural cartoons criticized the Eintopf obligation. "Which Eintopf dish is the most widespread in Germany?" asked one. The answer: Gedämpfte Zungen. Zungen means "tongues," and Gedämpfte means both "steamed" and "silenced." Eventually, amid the chaos of the Second World War, the campaign petered out.

In the end, however, Eintopfsonntagen proved more consequential than the Nazis likely anticipated. More than 80 years later, Eintopf dishes remain popular in modern Germany, and the word is still commonly used—though with scarcely a thought to its strange, racially charged origins.

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Kippah and the city: German Jews urged to avoid wearing skull caps after Berlin attack
https://www.rt.com/news/425038-germany-kippah-danger-attack/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

A Jewish community leader in Germany has advised Jews to not publicly wear kippahs in parts of big cities in the wake of a recent anti-Semitic assault on a man wearing one in Berlin.

Germany is becoming increasingly unsafe for Jews to publicly identify themselves amid a wave of anti-Semitic incidents, Josef Schuster, the head of Germany's Central Council of Jews, said in an interview with local radio RBB24. The comment follows the April 16 attack on Jewish man Adam Armush and his friend in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood. Armush, who was wearing a kippah – a traditional Jewish head garment – filmed and shared the assault online, provoking a massive reaction. In response, the local Jewish community has planned a protest dubbed "Berlin wears a kippah," which has since been supported in other cities.

However, while Schuster believes that defiantly wearing a kippah would be the right response "in principle," he advised Jews to stay on the safe side in big cities, and maybe settle for a baseball cap instead. In "problem neighborhoods with large Muslim populations... it might be better to choose a different head covering," he said.

When directly asked if he links the rise in anti-Semitic incidents to the recent influx of migrants and refugees from Muslim-majority countries, Schuster insisted that it contributed to it, but was not the only factor. He believes that racist and xenophobic sentiments still linger within a sizeable portion of the German population, Muslims included. At the same time, he called to avoid "casting suspicion on all Muslims."

The assault on Armush, who was confronted by a young man swinging his belt and shouting "Yahudi," which is Arabic for "Jew," became all the more controversial after it was uncovered that the attacker was a 19-year-old Syrian refugee.

The problem of Muslim immigrants bringing anti-Semitism into Germany has since been publicly acknowledged, even by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose unchanging course for an open-door policy has cost her a chunk of her former ratings and boosted her right-wing opponents.

"We have a new phenomenon, as we have many refugees among who there are, for example, people of Arab origin who bring another form of anti-Semitism into the country," Merkel said an interview with Israeli Channel 10. While she was reacting to the assault on Armush, it was only the latest case of anti-Semitism in German media's spotlight.

In March, a report emerged, claiming a Jewish Girl was verbally assaulted by her Muslim classmate, who threatened to beat and even kill her because of her religion. Another case took place in Berlin where a Jewish student was forced to change schools, following violent bullying by classmates.

Merkel's party CDU and the sister Bavarian party CSU have been trying to score some points with frustrated voters ever since CDU showed the worst election result since 1949 at the 2017 polls. Earlier, CDU/CSU announced that they were preparing legislation that could see migrants expressing anti-Semitic views deported from the country. The conservative CSU has recently symbolically introduced Christian crosses in public institutions to strengthen the display of Bavarian "cultural identity and Christian-western influence."

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They've got Hitler's teeth.   

French Researchers: Hitler Really Did Die In The Bunker In 1945
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/21/612932451/french-researchers-hitler-really-did-die-in-the-bunker-in-1945

A new forensic study of remains jealously guarded by Russian intelligence for seven decades has determined with certainty what historians have always assumed — with World War II irredeemably lost by Germany, Adolf Hitler did in fact kill himself at his Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945.

However, the history books have not satisfied everyone. Alternative notions have abounded in the tabloid press and even in some mainstream publications — most involving the Fuhrer's escape from Germany at the end of the war.

A team of French pathologists, publishing in the peer-reviewed European Journal of Internal Medicine, were recently allowed to study a set of teeth kept in Moscow since the end of the war.

The researchers explain that Hitler had notoriously bad teeth and by the time he died, at age 56, only a few of his own remained. According to Deutsche Welle, "The teeth matched descriptions provided by Hitler's dentist and revealed no trace of meat — consistent with the fact that the Führer was vegetarian."

The teeth were also readily identifiable because of "conspicuous and unusual prostheses and bridgework" described by Hitler's personal dentist, Hugo Blaschke, and his assistant, Kathe Heusermann, according to DW.

"The teeth are authentic — there is no possible doubt," lead pathologist Philippe Charlier was quoted by Agence France-Presse as saying. "Our study proves that Hitler died in 1945."

"We can stop all the conspiracy theories about Hitler," Charlier was further quoted by AFP as saying. "He did not flee to Argentina in a submarine; he is not in a hidden base in Antarctica or on the dark side of the moon."

That's right, the moon. As The Telegraph wrote in 2009:  "The Nazis' development late in the war of high-technology weapons – including the V2, an early ballistic missile, and the Me 262 jet fighter – inspired some to believe that Germany had secretly won the space race.

It was also suggested that the Nazis had made contact with UFOs and that they had made it to the Moon as early as 1942."

UFOs and moon bases aside, several prominent Nazis did escape after the war, many of them finding refuge in South America, where right-wing regimes, such as Argentina, welcomed or tolerated them.

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Some of Hitler's last relatives are living secret lives on Long Island
https://nypost.com/2018/10/08/some-of-hitlers-last-relatives-are-living-secret-lives-on-long-island/

They're the Hitlers next door.

Some of Adolf Hitler's last surviving relatives have been living under the radar on Long Island for decades, according to a new report.

Hitler's great-nephews Alexander, Louis and Brian Stuart-Houston — the only living descendants of the dictator's paternal side — live quiet lives in the New York suburbs and fly American flags in their yards, according to Germany's Bild newspaper, which came knocking at their doors recently.

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The three men are the sons of Hitler's nephew, William Patrick Hitler, who was born in the UK to the Fuehrer's half-brother, Alois Hitler Jr.

Alois, who left home at 14 and wound up working as a waiter in Dublin, split when "Willy" Hitler was young, according to the New Yorker.

But Willy wound up visiting his estranged dad in Germany in 1929, where he attended a Nuremberg rally. He then returned to the UK and began giving interviews to the press as Hitler's "English nephew" — until he was summoned to Berlin to face a furious Fuehrer, the magazine reports.

"What did you tell the newspaper? Who gave you permission to appoint yourself an authority on my private affairs?" he fumed, according to Willy's mom, Brigid.

"No one must drag my private affairs into the newspapers. I have never said one word they can use. And now there is a 'nephew' to tell them all the miserable little details they want to know."

Willy later traveled to New York, where he continued to give lectures on his infamous family, and eventually registered for military service — joining the US Navy to fight in World War II

After the war, he moved to Patchogue with his German wife and changed the family's name — first to Hiller and then Stuart-Houston, according to Bild.

He died in 1987 at the age of 76, and his now-middle-aged sons have resolutely refused to speak with the media when reporters have come knocking over the years — but Alexander finally broke his silence when Bild showed up recently asking for his opinion on German politics.

The 60-something revealed that he likes German Chancellor Angela Merkel and would vote for her if he could.

"I like her. She's good. She seems to be an intelligent and smart person," said Alexander, whose middle name is Adolf, according to Bild.

But although he and his brothers are all staunch Republicans, Alexander said he doesn't care for the current president.

"The last person I would say I admire is Donald Trump. He is definitely not one of my favorites," he told the newspaper.

"Some things that Trump says are all right. Most of them are ...," he added, trailing off, when asked what he doesn't like about Trump. "It's the way he does it that annoys me. And I just don't like liars."

Brian and Louis, who live together nearby, wouldn't talk to the reporter. One of their neighbors said she knew their family history, but said they're "excellent people."

"You can't be blamed for your relatives," she told the paper.

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This German group renovates Holocaust survivors' homes in Israel for free

Rabbi Zalmen Wishedski had an unexpected encounter on a recent flight to Israel.

Wishedski, who was flying on Monday from Basel, Switzerland, where he works as a Chabad emissary, was praying when a man seated next to him handed him a piece of paper.

The note was from an organization called the Saxon Friends of Israel and described how the group brings volunteers from Germany to Israel to renovate Holocaust survivors' apartments for free.

The two started talking and the man, a house painter named Roland, said that he had been traveling to Israel twice a year for around five years from his home in the south German state of Baden-Wurttemberg to do the volunteer work.

"I cannot change or repair the whole world, I cannot repair all my people did 70 years ago,'" the rabbi recalled 54-year-old Roland telling him. "All I can do is painting. It's what I'm doing, bringing a little bit of good to the world."

Wishedski, who was born in Israel but has been living in Basel for 16 years, was touched by the selfless story.

"This was very, very good because sometimes we give up because we can't change the entire world, and he told me that if you can change the house of one woman, it's worth it," the rabbi told JTA.

Wishedski snapped a selfie with Roland and shared it on his Facebook profile. The post, which he wrote in Hebrew, received over two thousand likes. Writer and public speaker Emanuel Miller translated it into English in a post that received over three thousand likes.

This promotional video from 2013 gives a little more information on the Saxon Friends of Israel and shows them in action fixing Holocaust survivors' houses. One volunteer explains that both of his parents were avid Nazis and that he is the only one in his family who wants to "deal with the issue."

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Taiwanese Salon Finally Covers Swastika Logo
https://tendaily.com.au/news/world/a180920jne/taiwanese-salon-finally-covers-swastika-logo-20180920

A Tawainese business, named 'Berlin Hair Salon', has finally covered swastika signs out the front of the store.

Owner Hsu Chen-yang originally defended the logo, and told EBC they were simply four razor blades and had no connection to the Nazi party.

He claimed people had urinated and defecated out the front of his store, and had been widely condemned by German and Jewish groups in the area.

"We are shocked and disgusted to hear that a barber shop in Hsinchu is openly displaying the Nazi symbol on its door sign," the German Institute Taipei wrote on its official Facebook on Tueaday.

"Displaying Nazi symbols for commercial use is an insult to the victims of the Holocaust! This institute appeals to the store manager to remove the Nazi symbols immediately."

Bowing to public pressure, Hsu covered the logo with black marker, and said he had contacted a designer about a new logo.

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This boxer survived the Holocaust by winning fights in Auschwitz
https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/boxer-survived-auchwitz-salamo-arouch

Salamo Arouch literally fought for survival during World War II. But he wasn't a soldier, he was a boxer of Jewish-Greek descent. That means the All-Balkans Middleweight Champ ended up in Auschwitz when the Nazis rolled into his home city of Thessalonica, Greece, in 1943.

That's where he started fighting for his life.

Before his internment in the Nazi death camp, Arouch's boxing record was an undefeated 24-0. He likely never imagined how high that number would climb during his life — or what was in stakes throughout the 200-plus bouts he would have to fight. When the Nazis captured Thessalonica, they rounded up the city's 47,000 Jewish citizens and shipped them away. A young Salamo and his family ended up at Auschwitz.

Almost the moment he arrived, a car drove up and out stepped the commandant, who asked if any of the new prisoners were boxers or wrestlers. Dutifully, the young Arouch rose his hand. He had been coached by his father and won his first fight at age 14. But the Nazis didn't take the young fighter at his word. They drew a circle in the dirt and gave him gloves before ordering he and another Jewish boy to fight on the spot.

Arouch squared off with boy. Both were exhausted and frightened, but the Greek came out on top, knocking out his opponent within minutes. Immediately, the guards presented him with another opponent. This time, it was a six-foot-tall Czech man. Arouch knocked him cold, too.

This was the first of hundreds of fights that Salamo Arouch would have to endure in the coming years. He would be led to a smoky warehouse two or three times a week and forced to fight anyone they could pit him against in a cockfight-like ring.

"We fought until one went down or they got sick of watching. They wouldn't leave until they saw blood," he recalled. For his part, Arouch managed to keep his strength up because he was given light duties as an office clerk and was fed more and better food than the other prisoners. He managed to eke a win out of every battle, with only two draws due to suffering from dysentery. Soon, he began to realize he was leading each defeated opponent to their fate.

"The loser would be badly weakened," Arouch told People magazine in 1990, "and the Nazis shot the weak."

As he fought for his life, his brother and father perished at the hands of the Nazis. His father was gassed because he grew weak. His brother was shot because he refused to remove gold teeth from the bodies of corpses. The young Salamo continued to box, but soon found himself at Bergen-Belson, a camp that killed some 50,000 people. He would not be among those.

The British 11th Armoured Division liberated the camp on Apr. 15, 1945, one year and 11 months to the day after he and his family were first shipped to Auschwitz. It was there he met Marta Yechiel, who would become his wife. The two moved to Palestine to start a new life, but war came quickly and the onetime member of the Greek Army joined the armed forces of a new country, Israel, and fought to keep it a free and safe homeland for Jewish people — especially those like himself, scarred by the Holocaust.

He came to run a successful shipping business out of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. When his life's story was made into a movie, Triumph of the Spirit, starring Willem Dafoe in 1989, he served as an advisor to the film. Since it was shot at Auchwitz itself, it was not a good experience for the old survivor.

"It was a terrible experience," he said of returning to the ruined camp. "In my mind, I saw my parents and began weeping. I cried and cried and could not sleep."

Arouch suffered from a stroke in 1994, one from which he never fully recovered. He died on Apr. 26, 2009 at age 86.

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The long-lost Holocaust diary of a Polish Jewish teen is bittersweet
https://qz.com/1457821/the-lost-holocaust-diary-of-a-polish-jewish-teen-is-bittersweet/

You might imagine that life for a Jewish teenager in Poland during World War II, under Soviet Communist and Nazi German rule, would be gloomy. And you'd be right, mostly.

But the long-hidden holocaust diary of Renia Springer—to be published in English by St. Martin's Press in 2019, and excerpted by the Smithsonian—reveals that, even as the world burns around her, a teenage girl remains concerned with boys and school and muses about whether it's better to be famous or happy.

The night of shattered glass
Eighty years ago today—on the night of November 9, 1938—violent anti-Jewish demonstrations broke out across Germany, Austria, and then Czechoslovakia after a 17-year old Polish Jew shot a German foreign official over the deportation of his family. For 48 hours, violent mobs destroyed hundreds of synagogues, Jewish businesses, schools, and homes, murdered 91 Jews, and rounded up 30,000 men to be sent to concentration camps. Nazi officials called the events Kristallnacht, meaning "Crystal Night" or "The Night of Broken Glass."

Renia Spiegel's diary begins on January 31, 1939, just a few months later. At the time, she is a 15-year-old in Przemysl, Poland. The nation is divided between German and Soviet rule. Renia is living with her grandparents in the rural town while her mother is stuck in Warsaw, which is Nazi territory, and her father guards the family farm. Her first journal entry describes her old life:  I used to live in a beautiful manor house on the Dniester River. I loved it there. There were storks on old linden trees. Apples glistened in the orchard, and I had a garden with neat, charming rows of flowers. But those days will never return...Now I live in Przemysl, at my grandmother's house. But the truth is, I have no real home. That's why sometimes I get so sad that I have to cry...But I also have joyous moments, and there are so many of them. So many!

Unlike Anne Frank, who documented her life in hiding in Amsterdam, Renia, for three years until her death at 18, lives aboveground, observing the war firsthand. That first winter, she attends school and plans parties, discussing her best friend and their mutual crush on a teacher in the diary. She documents her sister's hopes to become a movie star and her own everyday observations. Renia writes:  It's raining today. On rainy days, I stand by the window and count the tears trickling down the windowpane...People might laugh at me, but sometimes I think inanimate objects can talk. Actually, they're not inanimate at all. They have souls, just like people. Sometimes I think the water in the drainpipes giggles. Other people call this giggle different names, but it never even crosses their minds that it's just that: a giggle.

The spring is more grim for Renia and for Europe. The diary takes a more serious turn. On April 2, 1939, she writes, "I'm learning French now and if there's no war I might go to France. I was supposed to go before, but Hitler took over Austria, then Czechoslovakia, and who knows what he'll do next. In a way, he's affecting my life, too."

By the fall, there's no more question that Hitler is a force in Renia's life. She writes on Sept. 6, "War has broken out! Since last week, Poland has been fighting with Germany. England and France also declared war on Hitler and surrounded him on three sides. But he isn't sitting idly."

Renia's journal describes the local war efforts. She helps dig air-raid trenches, sews gas masks, takes shifts serving tea to soldiers and collecting food for them. "In a word, I'm fighting alongside the rest of the Polish nation," she writes. "I'm fighting and I'll win!"

Four days later, she is much less hopeful. Przemysl is attacked and Renia, her sister, and grandfather flee the burning city in the middle of the night on foot. They escape to Lwow, which is soon invaded by Russian soldiers. In Lwow, Renia waits in long lines for bread and wakes up in the middle of the night to the sound of air-raid sirens.

By October, she's back in Przemsyl and writes, "Those Russians are such cute boys (though not all of them). One of them was determined to marry me." The following month, Renia starts having a crush on a schoolmate and the journal is full of teenage angst. She worries that she doesn't know how to flirt.

One year after the journal begins, in January 1940, Renia declares that she hates everything and lives in fear of violence and searches. By springtime, life takes an even more terrifying turn. She writes: Terrible things have been happening. There were unexpected nighttime raids that lasted three days. People were rounded up and sent somewhere deep inside Russia. So many acquaintances of ours were taken away. There was terrible screaming at school. Girls were crying. They say 50 people were packed into one cargo train car. You could only stand or lie on bunks. Everybody was singing "Poland has not yet perished."

Despite this, she confides to her journal, "About that Holender boy I mentioned: I fell in love, I chased him like a madwoman, but he was interested in some girl named Basia."

On love and war
Renia's journal is full of these seeming contradictions. She alternates seamlessly between the political and personal because that is the story of her life. One moment, she's a smitten teen, on the other, an endangered species.

On June 26, 1941, Renia admits, "I'm weak with fear. War again, war between Russia and Germany. The Germans were here, then they retreated...I want to live so badly...You saved me before, save me now. God, thank you for saving me."

Ultimately, her prayers go unanswered. On July 14, 1942, Renia is forced to move to the Jewish ghetto in Przemysl. She writes:  Remember this day; remember it well. You will tell generations to come. Since 8 o'clock today we have been shut away in the ghetto. I live here now. The world is separated from me and I'm separated from the world.

On the last day of her life, July 30, 1942, just after her 18th birthday, Renia repeats her prayer, writing, "Hear, O, Israel, save us, help us." She is executed that night. The last lines in the journal are written by her boyfriend, Zygmunt Schwarzer, who writes of Renia's death and that of his parents, "Three shots! Three lives lost! All I can hear are shots, shots."

Schwarzer survived concentration camps and the war and eventually moved to the US. He gave Renia's journal to her mother and sister, who also survived and emigrated to the US, in the 1950s. They refused to read it.

But Renia's niece finally convinced her mother a few years ago that the 700-page diary is an important record, all the more so in a time when few survivors of that war remain. Soon, the diary will be released in English. It is a simultaneously harrowing and heartening account, a timely and poignant reminder to never forget.

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France rocked by 69-percent rise in anti-Semitism as acts become 'relentless', PM warns
https://www.rt.com/news/443553-antisemitism-rise-france-prime-minister/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

After a two-year drop, France has been hit by a staggering 69-percent rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the past nine months, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Friday.

The French prime minister used the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night of November 9, 1938, when Jews were "systematically" targeted by the Nazis, to warn about the "relentless" acts of anti-Semitism taking place in his country.

"We are very far from being finished with anti-Semitism," Philippe said on his Facebook page, branding the number of acts perpetrated against Jews "relentless."

Despite seeing a drop in offences in the past two years, France has in the past nine months been hit by a 69-percent increase, he said. Although the PM failed to specify how many anti-Semitic acts were recorded in the period, French newspaper Le Monde previously said that 311 incidents were reported last year.

"Every aggression perpetrated against one of our citizens because they are Jewish echoes like the breaking of new crystal," Philippe said, before outlining government plans to crack down on the rise in anti-Jewish sentiment.

He said the government will be testing a group of magistrates and investigators to help tackle the issue. A national team will also be mobilized in schools from mid-November to aid teachers in fending off growing anti-Semitism, while there will also be a legislative process aimed at the withdrawal of hateful content online.

According to French news outlet France24, Jews in France make up less than one percent of the population, and yet they were victims of 40 percent of crime registered as racially or religiously motivated in 2017.

In March France was shocked when the body of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor was found incinerated in her apartment in Paris and with 11 stab wounds. A man was arrested over what is suspected to have been an anti-Semitic attack.

Less than a year before that, 65-year-old teacher Sarah Halimi was beaten to death by a Franco-Malian man before he threw her from a third-story window. The case was prosecuted as an anti-Semitic crime.

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Amazing.  Let's see...the war ended in 1945, and now it's 2018, so any holohoax "survivor" would be at least 74 years old, even if they were a tiny infant.  These people, on average, must be 85 years old, so, it sounds like that time in the concentration camp was good for their health. 

Hundreds Of Holocaust Survivors Speak Up About Anti-Semitism At Global Hanukkah Event
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/international-holocaust-survivors-night-2018_us_5c06f5e1e4b0680a7ec9d41f

Holocaust survivors gathered in four cities around the world on Tuesday to mark the third night of Hanukkah ― and to speak up about the horrors of anti-Semitism.

Menorah-lighting ceremonies brought hundreds of survivors together in Berlin, Jerusalem, Moscow and South Orange, New Jersey. It's a sight that is becoming increasingly rare, as the survivors advance in age.

Roman Kent, an 89-year-old Polish-born Jew who survived three Nazi-run concentration camps, told a gathering of more than 100 survivors at South Orange's Oheb Shalom Congregation that he hoped their presence would serve as a "beacon to future generations."

Kent said that for years his "horrific memories" of the Holocaust made it difficult for him to celebrate Jewish holidays and tradition. Now he thinks there are many similarities between the story of Hanukkah and the stories of Holocaust survivors.

"Both are instances of the few surviving oppression by the many, the mighty persecuting the powerless and, ultimately, the light banishing the darkness as a symbol of Jewish survival," Kent said in his speech. "Everyone here today is a testimony to this."

The second annual International Holocaust Survivors Night was organized by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, a New York-based organization that helps survivors negotiate compensation claims.

In Berlin, about 400 survivors gathered at a Jewish community center to light the menorah and eat dinner together, according to the Claims Conference. Dozens of survivors and relatives gathered at a community center in Moscow, The Associated Press reported, marking the first year this event took place in Russia. In Jerusalem, more than 250 survivors participated in a celebration at the Western Wall.

Shlomo Gur, vice president of the organization's Israel branch, told the AP  that reports of rising anti-Semitism in Europe have given the event an increased sense of urgency.

"We need to make sure more and more people remember," Gewirtz said. "This event gives us hope — it's an expression of overcoming the tragedy, bringing people from darkness into light."

Anti-Semitism has also been on the rise in the U.S., where the Anti-Defamation League has recorded a recent spike in reports of vandalism and cemetery desecration.

Hanna Keselman, an 87-year-old survivor who spoke at the New Jersey event, told HuffPost that she felt it was important for people to listen to stories about the Holocaust because "anti-Semitism is rearing its ugly head all over again."

"It's frightening, having gone through this before, even though I was a child," Keselman said. "It's something I didn't want to live through again."

German politicians, Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors light a menorah at a Jewish community center in Berlin.
Keselman was born in Germany in 1930 but spent a large portion of her childhood moving around Europe, separated from her parents, in order to escape Nazi persecution. Her mother survived the war, but her father died in the Flossenburg Concentration Camp. Keselman and her mother immigrated to the U.S. in 1947.

Keselman said that she felt "terribly frightened" after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in October, which left 11 people dead and is believed to be the deadliest attack on a Jewish community in American history.

"It was bad enough to be insulted and to have people marching and screaming against the Jews," Keselman said, referring to last year's white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia. "[The shooting] was absolutely taking another step that should never have happened."

Keselman said she thinks Holocaust survivors should continue to speak up as long as they can ― but worries that it may be too late already.

"I don't know what the future will bring," she said. "Our children and grandchildren will have to live through these frightening times."

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Holocaust Survivor Reunites with the Family That Helped Hide Her from the Nazis After 73 Years
https://people.com/human-interest/holocaust-survivor-reunites-family-hid-her-nazis-after-73-years/

In November 2014, Charlotte Adelman received a message 70 years in the making — through Facebook. The young boy whose family had hid her from the Nazis in a cellar for nine months during the Holocaust wanted to reconnect.

But the French-born Adelman, who now lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, had "never forgotten" Alain Quatreville.

Adelman, 86, was only 11 in 1943 when her Jewish family was separated, and her father orchestrated a daring escape to Eastern France, where she lived in hiding with the Quatrevilles for nearly two years.

Quatreville's message, Adelman says, left her "enthusiastic."

"How a boy could put so much effort into finding me again?" she says of Quatreville, adding, "I was pinching myself."

Adelman spent her early years in Paris, the daughter of a tailor, Herszle Rozencwajg. "We had hot water and a shower," she says, "so we were very, very fortunate." But in 1940, when Germany occupied France during World War II, Adelman says "everything changed."

"We weren't supposed to be walking with the Germans on the same pavement," she explains.

Two years after the occupation, Adelman's mother, Rajzla Rozencwajg, took the children to an orphanage, while she and her husband were placed on a truck to be taken to a "camp" with other Jews.

Adelman's father escaped, but her mother was taken to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Herszle worked quick to negotiate his daughter's rescue to Eastern France, where he had been promised safe stay for Adelman if he worked for the Germans.

For more on Charlotte Adelman's incredible story, pick up the new issue of People on newsstands Friday.
The Quartevilles — with no connection to Adelman or her family — agreed to take her in, and she was smuggled out of Paris in a noodle truck. "Everything was clandestine," she details.

"I never knew what was going to happen to me," she recounts of her escape. "I was always the lookout."

At first, Adelman spent several months attending school alongside the Quartrevilles' two children — Ginette, then 18, and Alain, only 4.

With German presence looming, the Quatrevilles moved Adelman to the cellar of the bombed out home next door.

"[They] put me there with a mattress, a bucket of water to wash myself, and a basin, and a kerosene lamp, and a bucket to make," she recounts. "It had no window, it was dark, I only knew the time of the day was, when [Ginette] brought me breakfast, lunch, and dinner. "

The threat was all too real, Adelman recalls.

"One night I said, 'Please, I cannot stay here. Let me go upstairs, and sleep in a regular bed,' " she recounts. "Well, that night the Germans came."

She says, "I heard them coming in the front door, so I slid under the bed, against the wall. I put my little hands in my mouth, because I was afraid to scream."

Ultimately escaping detection, Adelman spent six months with the Quatrevilles after the war ended, before her father (who joined the resistance) was able to return. Adelman's mother died in Auschwitz in January 1943, while her brother Max had been taken in by another family.

"It was a miracle I survived," she says. "It was like something was looking over me."

Adelman relocated to the United States in 1957, after meeting her husband Alex Adelman in Canada. The couple — and parents of 2 — were married for 50 years before his death in 2011.

"I never forgot the Quatrevilles," Adelman says, though.

After reconnecting online through Facebook Messenger, a plan was hatched to reunite. "He really wanted my mom to come to his little town," Adelman's daughter, Roz Goldberg, 55, says. "I knew it was going to be emotional, and I didn't know if she was capable of that."

With the help of Facebook Messenger, Adelman's community and a GoFundMe campaign, her and her family were able to travel to France in July.

Adelman reconnected with Alain, now 78, at the Wall of Names in Paris at the Mémorial de la Shoah — where her mother is memorialized.

Says Quatreville, a retired math professor who's married with three children and lives in the French Ardennes, "This meeting made Charlotte real to me. Until that day it was a very distant childhood memory, and she was almost unreal."

He adds, "My mother waited all her life to see Charlotte again."

"We met at the Shoah, and I lit a candle for my mom, and he came to help me to light the candle," Adelman says.

Then, they traveled to Beaumont-en-Argonne and revisited the home where Adelman spent many months — and Quatreville's sister Ginette, now 93.

Says Goldberg, "All the stories that my mom's been telling for years and years and years, all of it came to life."

"It brought it all back," says Adelman, who has kept in touch with Quatreville since. "It was very emotional. It reminded me I never knew how I was going to get out."

Adelman tells her story now to youth groups and beyond, but once didn't even utter a word of her experience to her own children.

"When I lost [my husband] seven years ago, I felt, for me to be strong again, I have to tell the story to other kids, and to other people," Adelman says. "I don't want my story to vanish. It should be always around for people to know what happened."

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