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| Stutthof Nazi camp guard going on trial in Germany
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A former SS guard is going on trial next month in Germany on charges of accessory to murder for serving at the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp.The 94-year-old, who hasn't been identified due to German privacy laws, is being tried in juvenile court because he was under the age of 21 at the time of his
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| Fall 2014 |
jewishreviewofbooks.com |
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| What We Talk About When We Talk About Stepan Bandera: A Rejoinder to Dovid Katz |
Dovid Katz has had a long and distinguished career in reestablishing Jewish learning and Yiddishkeit in Lithuania and in fighting Shoah revisionism and denial across Eastern Europe. He deserves ample credit for both, so it is especially disappointing when he adopts, in his response to my article, the position that his—and our—enemies are his friends. “In other words,” he writes, “when it comes to the basic ethical issue of how we think about the Nazis and their local reliable killers, the bad guys are the good guys and the good guys are the bad guys.” Vladimir Putin, his allies in the Baltic states, and the eastern Ukrainian separatists are the “the good guys” in their rejection of an anti-Semitic Nazi collaborationist past, while the Ukrainian nationalists are “the bad guys.”more...
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| Fall 2014 |
jewishreviewofbooks.com |
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| Poland Is Not Ukraine: A Response to Konstanty Gebert’s “The Ukrainian Question” |
Konstanty Gebert, a hero of Poland’s Solidarity period and more recently of the movement to reinvigorate Jewish life in the country, presents a stark alternative in “The Ukrainian Question” (Summer 2014) that few others have dared to spell out:
Are Jewish interests and values better served by the emergence of a democratic independent state, even if it is steeped in nationalist ideology? Or are they better served by the triumph of Russian regional imperialism, even if it is tempered by a demonstrated opposition to anti-Semitism? more...
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| Polish Weekly Shows Merkel in Concentration Camp |
The Polish media is angry over the portrayal of the country's World War II resistance fighters in a popular miniseries that aired recently in Germany. more...
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| 26.
07. 2012 |
tabletmag.com |
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| The
Diplomat of Shoah History
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| The
dispute between Poles and Jews about the Nazi period can move
in unsettling directions, ones that make an unhealed wound hurt
even worse. more...
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| 05.
03. 2012 |
chronicle.com |
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| Can
Germany Help Central Europe Confront Its Dark Past?
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| The
home of the German Historical Institute in downtown Warsaw is
a handsome, 19th-century neo-Renaissance residence with arched
doorways and a tranquil, cobbled courtyard. more...
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| 08.
05. 2011 |
Ha-Aretz "Books" supplement |
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The
equivalency canard
EFRAIM
ZUROFF
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| In
this bold attempt to reframe a critical period in modern Eastern
European history, Yale historian Tim Snyder redraws historical
boundaries to create an artificial geographic entity that he
dubs “the Bloodlands,” taking in the area from central Poland to western Russia through Ukraine, Belarus
and the Baltics. more...
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| A
presidential exoneration
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| It's
unlikely that April 14 will become a national holiday in Poland
in the future, but I have no doubt that this past Monday provided
much cause for jubilation in Warsaw. more...
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| 21.02.
2008 |
derstandard.at |
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| Der
Fall Erna Wallisch: Die Banalität der Verjährung
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| Nazi-Jäger
hofften auf Mordprozess - KZ-Wärterin in Majdanek lebte bis zuletzt
in Wien. more...
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| 11.02.
2008 |
newstatesman.com |
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| Last
chance to catch the Nazis
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| The
news that Austria is re-opening the case of Erna Wallisch, a
female guard at the Majdanek death camp, currently residing in
Vienna, was accompanied in many media outlets by a photograph
of an elderly, rather disoriented housewife - who looked as if
she had been awaken from a deep sleep. more...
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| Last
Chance in Warsaw ?
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| Readers
of SHALOM are already acquainted with “Operation: Last Chance,”
which was launched by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Targum
Shlishi Foundation to maximize the efforts to bring Nazi war
criminals to justice by offering financial rewards for information
which would facilitate prosecution and punishment. more...
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| 13.04.2006 |
THE
JERUSALEM POST |
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| Poland
asks UN to rename Auschwitz
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The Anti-Defamation League is urging UNESCO to change the official name
of Auschwitz-Birkenau to reflect its German connection, at the behest
of Poland. more...
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| 4.04.2006 |
THE
JERUSALEM POST |
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| Victims
or perpetrators?
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In the Holocaust, the majority of victims were annihilated through a process
of industrialized mass murder, making it often difficult to ascribe personal
responsibility to an individual murderer. Given the fact that most of
the victims were identified, robbed of their possessions, concentrated
and deported from their homes to distant death camps - where they were
annihilated by a complex system especially established to facilitate
their exploitation and extermination - responsibility for the murders
is diffuse and shared by many participants. more...
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| 21.03.2006 |
Sunday
- Catholic Magazine |
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Let
justice be done
Fr Hubert Czuma,
S.J.
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And the media in Poland got crazy about the discovery of the next names
of secret collaborators, the so-called 'TW'. This time they speak loudly
about the priests who were apparently unlucky to become secret collaborators
of the communist services during the time of the Polish People's Republic.
Earlier, the media informed about the spiritual informer who had reported
on John Paul II. Even some work has been written: a report about his
talks with the representatives of these services. more...
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En
busca de los últimos nazis
GUILLERMO ALTARES
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Polémica por la campaña Última
Oportunidad del Centro Wiesenthal
El paso del tiempo no convierte a los culpables en inocentes”,
dice un ‘cazador de nazis’. more...
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| 25.06.2004 |
GAZETA
WYBORCZA |
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Zbrodniarzy
należy ścigać
Dr. Efraim Zuroff
(English version)
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| Judging
from the impassioned negative responses by prominent Polish public
figures to the launching this week of the "Operation:Last Chance"(O:LC) infoline in Warsaw, one can only wonder why the efforts to bring local
Nazi war criminals to justice in Poland have aroused such antagonism
among the very people whom one would have expected to be their
most ardent supporters. more...
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| 16.06.2004 |
BBC
News Online |
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Holocaust
hotline anger in Poland
Marek Bekerman
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An
international organisation dedicated to hunting down Holocaust
war criminals has opened a telephone hotline for potential
informants in Poland. more...
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| 16.06.2004 |
News
Bulletin of the Polish Embassy in Washington |
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Wiesenthal
Centre opens collaborator infoline
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| Only
reporters have to date made use of an infoline gathering information
about Polish Nazi collaborators and participants in Jewish pogroms
opened Wednesday by the Jerusalem- based Simon Wiesenthal centre.
Information transmitted via such lines will be analyzed in Jerusalem,
and transferred to the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). more...
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| 16.06.2004 |
w
w w . h a a r e t z . c o m |
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Money
reward in hunt for Nazis stirs criticism in Poland
By The
Associated Press
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| The
Simon Wiesenthal Center on Wednesday launched a drive to track
down remaining Nazi war criminals in Poland by offering a $12,000
reward for information leading to their prosecution, drawing
criticism from prominent Polish figures. more...
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