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The Shoes on the Danube memorial. Photo: Julie Szego/AJN file
January 17, 2019, 12:01 am
Divers search Danube for holocaust victims
NEWS that divers from Israeli search-and-rescue organisation ZAKA are this week searching the River Danube in Hungary for the remains of Holocaust victims shot nearly 75 years ago has been welcomed by survivors in Australia.
Participants wearing kippahs at a rally in Berlin, April 25, 2018. Photo: Carsten Koall/Getty Images
November 29, 2018, 12:00 am
Concern about European poll results
A CNN poll of Europeans in seven countries found more than one-third said they have no substantial knowledge of the Holocaust.
Nic Naitanui (front row) with the Tel Aviv Cheetahs AFL team in Israel recently.
November 2, 2018, 6:31 pm
AFL player Nic Naitanui’s epic Israel experience
West Coast Eagles player Nic Naitanui has returned from an inspiring eight-day visit to Israel, where he toured Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Beersheba and met up with the Tel Aviv Cheetahs AFL team.
By Aaron Fetter
From left: Rejhan Prohic, Aviva Fox and Egon Sonnenschein with the Righteous accolade bestowed by Yad Vashem.
August 9, 2018, 12:01 am
Muslim saviours honoured
FOUR members of a Muslim Bosnian family have been recognised by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations for hiding Sydney resident Aviva Fox during the Holocaust.
By Gareth Narunsky
Millington's grave at Sidcup Cemetery in Britain.
August 2, 2018, 12:01 am
A righteous Tasman?
A BRITISH archivist is campaigning for an Australian mariner who is said to have saved Greek Jews during the Holocaust to be considered for recognition by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations.
By Peter Kohn
Survivors at the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne protesting against Facebook. From left: Joseph De Haan, David Prince, Abe Goldberg and Lusia Haberfeld. Photo: Peter Haskin
July 26, 2018, 12:01 am
Facebook’s shame
FACEBOOK chief Mark Zuckerberg has been sharply criticised by Australian Shoah survivors after saying Holocaust denial should not be barred on the social media giant.
By Peter Kohn
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in Poland.
July 12, 2018, 12:00 am
Yad Vashem slams deal with Poland
The Polish government hasn’t really backed down on its Holocaust law, and it is “trying to literally change history”, Yad Vashem historian Havi Dreifuss has told The AJN.
By Nathan Jeffay
Holocaust survivors protesting in front of the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv in February. Photo: Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP/Getty Images
July 5, 2018, 12:00 am
Poland backtracks on Holocaust law
Benjamin Netanyahu said that by securing the Polish concession, his team "upheld our prime duty to ensure the historic truth about the Holocaust."
By Nathan Jeffay
Prince William laying a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem. Photo: EPA/Abir Sultan
June 28, 2018, 12:12 pm
Prince: ‘Never forget’
THE 70-year taboo on members of the British Royal Family officially visiting Israel was finally broken this week as an RAF plane with Prince William on board touched down at Ben Gurion Airport.
Mahmoud Abbas addressing the Palestinian National Council. Photo: Flash90
May 10, 2018, 12:00 am
Abbas’ apology over his Shoah comments rejected
The Palestinian President has apologised "if people were offended" by his claims that the "social function" that Jews took on in Europe was the cause of massacres, including the Holocaust.
By Nathan Jeffay
Alpha Cheng. Photo: AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts
May 7, 2018, 12:00 am
Cheng shares his Israel inspiration
Courage to Care NSW ambassador Alpha Cheng – whose father Curtis was tragically shot dead in 2015 by a teenage terrorist outside Parramatta Police Station - revealed he gained inspiration and strength to become a public campaigner for social harmony after a life-changing visit to Israel.
By Shane Desiatnik
Stuart Robert. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch
April 5, 2018, 12:01 am
MPs apologise for Evian
THE world "turned its back on God's chosen people", federal MP Stuart Robert said last week while moving a parliamentary motion apologising for Australia's "indifference" to the plight of European Jewry on the eve of the Holocaust.
By Gareth Narunsky
Stuart Robert. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch
March 8, 2018, 12:01 am
Amends for Evian, 80 years on
A QUEENSLAND Liberal MP wants Australia to issue a formal apology to the Jewish people for its refusal to do more to help Germany's Jews on the eve of World War II.
By Peter Kohn
Polish President Andrzej Duda. Photo: Mateusz Wlodarczyk/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images
February 9, 2018, 2:24 pm
‘The blood of Polish Jews cries from the ground’
Poland's President dealt a major blow to Israel and Jewish groups on Tuesday, announcing that he will ratify a controversial new Holocaust law.
By Nathan Jeffay
The entrance to Auschwitz concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland.
February 1, 2018, 5:18 pm
New Polish Shoah legislation slammed
Israelis say that the parliament in Warsaw has no right to prescribe prison sentences for people who suggest that Poland bore responsibility for the Holocaust – and top scholars share their dismay.
By Nathan Jeffay
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