By Joel A Moskowitz, M D LA JOLLA, California– Survivors, trauma, psychological effects, memories, depressive disorder, OCD (obsessive compulsive), bitterness, deniers, and more recently PTSD (a term which is much overused) and rarely victory” These words have been associated with victims of the Holocaust. On assignment recently to cover the Seacrest Village gala for San [...]
By Lloyd Levy LONDON –I find myself in a euphoric state of mind, and am proud to be British perhaps for the first time since Margaret Thatcher’s premiership. So that’s 21 years to wait, but at long last we have a Prime Minister willing to stand up for Britain’s best interests. David Cameron, the British [...]
By Lloyd Levy LONDON– Europe is being convulsed by the most remarkable and unwelcome events. The elected legitimate Prime Ministers of both Greece and Italy have been forced to resign. They have been forced out effectively by diktat from the Germans, with France hanging on to the German coat tails in an attempt to retain some [...]
By John Brennan BUCHENWALD, Germany — The unspeakable horror, the ignored cries of pain, and the unimaginable suffering. The final resting place for more than 50,000 innocent souls. This was Nazi era Germany: This was Buchenwald, the death camp infamous for performing medical experiments on its inmates. Its place in history marked by being the [...]
By Shoshana Bryen Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –According to the German magazine Der Spiegel, Germany will provide Israel with its sixth Dolphin-class nuclear-capable submarine and subsidize the deal with 135 million Euros. The magazine notes that Germany “donated” the first two submarines after the first Gulf War and split the cost of the third. Sort [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-New Jersey), Mike Johanns (R-Nebraska) and nine of their Senate colleagues have called on the German government to stop the Hamburg-based bank, Europäisch-Iranische Handelsbank (EIH), from providing financial support for Iran’s nuclear program. The Senators wrote to the German Foreign Minister expressing their concern that EIH [...]
JERUSALEM (Press Release)–Simon Wiesenthal Center called upon the German authorities to make a final effort to bring to justice two convicted but unpunished Nazi war criminals living in Germany and to open the files of the BND (German Secret Service) regarding the postwar escape of notorious Holocaust perpetrators. In an op-ed piece published Monday in [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which documents the tragic fate of Europe’s Roma at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II, is alarmed by the precarious situation of the Roma in today’s Europe. It calls on European central and local governments to be mindful of [...]
JERUSALEM (WJC)–The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Museum has compiled a list of 4 million confirmed names of Jews murdered in the Holocaust. In the last 10 years the names of 1.5 million Jewish victims have been added to the list. A decade ago, Yad Vashem launched a “rescue” operation for the identification of victims [...]
BERLIN (Press Release) — The German government is to pay € 60 million (US$ 80 million) over the coming months into a fund for the preservation of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Notably the former gas chambers and other evidence of crimes committed at the camp are deteriorating to the point of collapse. Germany [...]
