Four are dead in a Beersheba bank shooting. [Times of Israel] Vandals spray paint slogans against liberal Jewish women's prayer group in Israel. [Washington Post] Nazi flags were spotted flying over the West Bank. [Algemeiner] A Jewish PR firm is set to represent victims of the Cleveland kidnappings. [Jewocity] Many of Spain's Sephardic Jews are still waiting for citizenship. [NYTimes] Imprisoned contractor Alan Gross settles a lawsuit with his company over negligence claims. [Arutz Sheva] The New York …More

The Jewish Museum in Camden, London will host an exhibit about Amy Winehouse’s Jewish roots, and include many of her personal belongings. [Standard] The British lawyer who was overheard making anti-Semitic remarks at her firm was fined $12,000 for her actions. [Algemeiner] A documentary film, “The Optimists,” depicts how Bulgarians protested against shipping Jewish citizens to concentration camps in 1943, saving most if the country’s 48,000 Jews. [Washington Post] A Jewish café …More

The Philharmonic Orchestra of Monte-Carlo will perform a concert in Monaco featuring instruments of Jewish Holocaust victims. Several violins belonging to Jews murdered by the Nazis will be played at the May 5 concert at the Grimaldi Forum, and the stories of their owners will be told, according to a report in the Nice Matain French daily. The Violins of Hope concert, initiated by Smadar Eisenberg, president of Friends of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Monte-Carlo association, obtained the instruments from the …More

Residents across Poland came together today to mark the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Sirens and church bells rung out in Warsaw, as state ceremonies hosted by Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski commemorated history’s largest example of Nazi resistance. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a month-long rebellion led by thousands of Jews living within the notorious Warsaw Ghetto. On April 19, 1943, erev Pesach, the Jewish residents stood together with smuggled firearms and handmade grenades, …More

Adolph Hitler is perhaps one of modern history’s most infamous vegetarians. A self-proclaimed animal lover, during his reign of terror the Nazi leader enacted a number of humane animal laws and environmental legislation. These statutes limited suffering of slaughtered animals and restricted animal experimentation. The Nazi preservation laws also promoted organic farming and helped conserve the nation’s forests. Recent research uncovering the Nazis’ so-called ‘green’ past, has also …More

“He’s in Israel, and will stand trial here.” Thus begins the meeting on May 23, 1960, when Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, informed his cabinet that Adolf Eichmann had been caught. The quote is taken from a transcript just released Monday by Israel’s state archive, some 53 years after the capture of the most wanted Nazi criminal of the time. Eichmann’s arrest and subsequent trial became a pivotal moment in Holocaust history, as both the Jewish and non-Jewish …More

A Nazi crimes agency in Germany will launch an investigation of 50 alleged former Auschwitz guards living in the country. Following a precedent set by the successful 2011 case against John Demjanjuk, the Central Office for Clarification of Nazi Crimes will begin reviewing cases in the coming weeks, according to reports from the German WAZ media group. The aim is to prosecute the individuals on charges of accessory to murder. The alleged guards, all around 90 years old, live throughout the country, the reports …More

Nazi Germany in the spring of 1939 was not a place to be entered lightly. But American Jews Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus were determined to do it, and leave the country with 50 Jewish children. The pair, an ordinary couple, never intended to become heroes. Though plagued by anti-immigration policies and opposition within the Jewish community itself, their mission was successful, paving the way for some of the families of the children to immigrate as well. Documentary “50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and …More

France’s Ministry of Culture returned seven valuable paintings looted by the Nazis during the Holocaust from two Jewish families. Six of the paintings were given to Boston-area resident Thomas Selldorff, 84, who came to Paris to collect the works during a ceremony Tuesday, according to Le Parisien. Another painting was returned the same day to a lawyer representing the relatives of Josef Weiner, a banker from Prague who was murdered by the Nazis in 1942. The paintings were part of various collections in …More

AEK Athens midfielder, Giorgos Katidis, has been banned from all Greek National teams—for life—for making a Nazi salute on the green. The Greek Football Federation announced the punishment in a statement, saying the action was "a profound insult to all victims of Nazi atrocities" and they condemned it "unequivocally and categorically." The 20-year-old athlete raised his arm in a “Nazi Hail” after scoring the winning goal in his team’s 2-1 game against Veria on Saturday. The …More

The Israel-based Shem Olam Holocaust and Faith Institute on Thursday showcased items that may have been used for Passover rituals at the Chelmno death camp in western Poland. The items were discovered during excavations of the site in pits containing prisoners’ belongings. One item is a worn out and partially torn Haggadah that was burned by the Nazis. Several portions dealing with the search for chametz (leavened bread) and other sentences managed to survive. Shem Olam was founded in 1996 by Avraham …More

The Seeking Kin column aims to help reunite long-lost relatives and friends. Karl and Ruth Albrecht, a couple who fled Nazi Germany, were given shelter in 1941 or 1942 at Santa Maria de La Vid, a monastery in Spain. He was Catholic, she was Jewish. Santiago Arroyo, a resident of Burgos, a northern Castile city near the monastery for Augustinian monks, tells of a connection his family has to the period and wonders what became of the couple. Don Grigorio Arranz became friendly with the couple because as a …More