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Polish builders unearth trove of pre-war Jewish belongings at building site

The city of Lodz was home to almost a quarter of a million Jews prior to World War II

By Georgia L Gilholy

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Polish builders unearth trove of pre-war Jewish belongings at building site

‘Last chance’ plea for memorial to Gdansk ghetto

‘Last chance’ plea for memorial to Gdansk ghetto

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Paris, FRANCE: A man reads, 13 January 2005 in Paris, the British tabloid The Sun featuring Harry, 20, the younger son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana, wearing a khaki uniform with an armband emblazoned with a swastika, emblem of the German WWII Nazi Party. The photographs in The Sun newspaper triggered outrage, especially from the Jewish community which pointed out that they appear as the royal family prepares to lead commemorations of the 60th anniversary of the Holocaust. AFP PHOTO GABRIEL BOUYS (Photo credit should read GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP via Getty Images)

Prince Harry: William and Kate told me to wear Nazi uniform

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 13: Whoopi Goldberg attends The 2021 Met Gala Celebrating In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 13, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue )

‘I’m sorry…Again’, says Whoopi Goldberg after latest Holocaust comments

By Georgia L Gilholy

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Shoah survivors: Help kindle our hopes this Chanukah

Shoah survivors: Help kindle our hopes this Chanukah

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96-year-old defendant Irmgard F., a former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, sits in the courtroom at the start of her trial at the court room in Itzehoe, northern Germany, on October 19, 2021. - The first woman to be prosecuted for Nazi-era crimes in decades, Irmgard F. is charged with complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people at Stutthof camp in occupied Poland. However an arrest warrant was issued by the court in the northern town of Itzehoe after Furchner left the retirement home where she lives on September 30, 2021 as her trial was set to begin, and headed to a metro station. (Photo by Christian Charisius / POOL / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTIAN CHARISIUS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

97-year-old Nazi typist found complicit in 10,500 deaths at Stutthof Concentration Camp

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The Jewish 'Gooooooaaaaaal' commentator whose parents fled the Holocaust

The Jewish 'Gooooooaaaaaal' commentator whose parents fled the Holocaust

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