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Bulgaria Accepts Blame for 11,000 Holocaust Deaths
Haaretz.com, March 30, 2008
Bulgaria accepts responsibility for the genocide of more than 11,000 Jews in its jurisdiction during World War II, President Georgi Parvanov said during a visit to Israel this week.
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Lecturer:  Germans Willing Participants in Holocaust
Montana Kaimin, March 24, 2008
Deep-seeded anti-Semitism - and not the fear of punishment - was the reason for most Germans' willingness to carry out brutal and lethal actions in the Holocaust, a Holocaust survivor's son said Monday night.
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Drawing on the Holocaust
Haaretz.com, March 19, 2008
At first glance, the prisoners' drawings hung up this week in David Yellin Teachers College in Jerusalem seemed to depict life in Israeli jails: barbed-wire fences, watchtowers and stooped figures gazing at freedom. But the sketches positioned next to them, a portrait of Anne Frank with a yellow patch and an embedded Israeli flag, made it clear that the gloomy images were a recreation of life in the ghetto as imagined by prisoners in Israeli jails. Blurring the distinction between life in the concentration camps and life in jail is one of the underlying principles of the Victory of the Spirit (Nitzahon Ha'ruah) project that has been going on for the last two years in the Israel Prisons Service.
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Nintendo Passes on Holocaust Game
Jerusalem Post, March 12, 2008
A Holocaust-themed video game will not be released by Nintendo in North America, but may be ready for distribution in Europe by the end of the year, the New York Times reported Monday.
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Writer Says Holocaust 'Memoir' Not True
Associated Press, February 29, 2008
A Belgian writer has admitted that she made up her best-selling "memoir" depicting how, as a Jewish child, she lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust, her lawyers said Friday.
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Stolen Holocaust Art at the Israel Museum
Arutz Sheva, February 29, 2008
The Israel Museum opened two new exhibitions of Holocaust-era art Monday, giving light to nearly 100 paintings and Jewish ceremonial artifacts stolen by Nazi looters during the Second World War.
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Stolen Art on Display in Search for Owners
The New York Times, February 20, 2008
In a remarkable feat of cooperation between France and Israel, requiring intensive negotiations and the passage of a law by the Israeli Parliament, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem has opened an exhibition of important art looted by the Nazis from France and then returned after the war.  Some of it was never reclaimed, presumably because the owners were killed in the Holocaust.
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Holocaust Inversion
Wall Street Journal, January 28, 2008
Solemn ceremonies around Europe marked yesterday's Holocaust Memorial Day. But 63 years after the liberation of Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945, one of the most perfidious forms of contemporary anti-Semitism is Holocaust inversion -- the portrayal of Israelis and Jews as modern-day Nazis. The charge is that Israel supposedly behaves toward the Palestinians as Germany did to the Jews in World War II.
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Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Breaks Ground
LAist, January 26, 2008
The Grove's new neighbor is considerably less trendy than an outpost of Abercrombie & Fitch, but also far more important. A symbolic ground-breaking ceremony was held yesterday in Pan Pacific Park (pictured) for the new permanent facilities of Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
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Nazi Camp Survivor Miles Lerman Dies; Helped Found Holocaust Museum
Washington Post, January 24, 2008
Miles Lerman, 88, who as a young man fought the Nazis in the forests of Poland and who helped found the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum as an enduring reminder of the millions who perished, died January 22 at his home in Philadelphia.
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Data on Holocaust Victims Made Available to Public
Houston Chronicle, January 19, 2008
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has begun helping Holocaust survivors, their family members and researchers gain access to a huge trove of Nazi-era records detailing the fates of millions of victims.
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Children of the Holocaust Train
Berlin, January 5, 2008
It is a train journey of terrible sadness, criss-crossing Germany, wakening memories of the relentless, orderly cruelty of Hitler's Third Reich.  This is a journey of commemoration and of reconciliation, a poignant voyage that will end, as it did those 60 years ago, at Auschwitz.
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Sultan of Swat; Babe Ruth's Home Run Against
the Holocaust.
Special to the Washington Times,
December 25, 2007
At a time when prominent sports figures are all too frequently associated with unethical behavior, it is worth recalling that 65 years ago this week, one of the world's most prominent athletes used his fame for a most noble purpose. That athlete was Babe Ruth, and the issue that moved him to make a rare foray into international affairs was the Holocaust.
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Haredi Holocaust Remembrance
Jerusalem Post, December 18, 2007
A compilation of rabbinic literature written immediately after World War II that was recently released in CD-ROM form is breaking misconceptions about the haredi approach to the Holocaust.
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Holocaust Victims' Asset List Published
Jerusalem Post, December 10, 2007
The names of 55,000 Holocaust victims who purchased more than 100,000 shares in the Zionist movement's pre-state financial organ before they perished in the Holocaust were published on Monday.
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A Useful Reminder That We Are Everyday People
Leonard Pitts, Jr., Syndicated Columnist
December 9, 2007
... It probably isn't your idea of an ideal holiday spot, but I plan to spend one of those days at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. It's something I do most years around this time, though I find it difficult to explain why...
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Museum Will Emphasize Rich History of Polish Jews
CanWest News Service
Krakow, Poland, December 1, 2007
Stone-faced tourists spill into this city by the thousands each day to retrace grim Holocaust history, from Jew-saving hero Oskar Schindler's famous enamelware plant to the Nazi death factory in nearby Auschwitz-Birkenau.  But some want the visitors to focus a little less on Hitler's Final Solution and more on Poland's rich Jewish history and culture that spanned almost 1,000 years.
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U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Welcomes Completion of Ratification Process Opening International Tracing Service Archive
Washington, D.C., November 30, 2007

All 11 countries overseeing the International Tracing Service ( ITS ) archive located in Bad Arolsen, Germany, have ratified the agreement that officially opens the massive Holocaust archive. This marks the conclusion of a long diplomatic process led by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to open this archive to help survivors and their families obtain information about their loved ones. Full Story

Holocaust Hero's Gravestone Moved to Israel
International Herald Tribune,
Jerusalem, November 25, 2007
The gravestone of a young woman executed more than 60 years ago after being caught on a clandestine mission to save Hungarian Jews in the Holocaust has been moved to Israel, officials said Sunday.  Hannah Szenes, a Hungarian Jew who parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe in 1944 to help rescue Jews, was honored on Nov. 7 as her gravestone was placed alongside her former home on a kibbutz farm next to the Mediterranean, Israel's Defense Ministry said. The ceremony marked the 63rd anniversary of her death.
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Manhattan Monument Honoring Holocaust Eyewitness is Unveiled
Newsday.com, November 11, 2007
A monument honoring the Polish underground officer who is credited with giving the first eyewitness accounts of the Warsaw Ghetto and a Nazi concentration camp to U.S. and British officials was unveiled Sunday outside the Polish Consulate.
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Yad Vashem to Showcase Muslims Who Saved Jews from Nazis
Jerusalem Post, October 29, 2007
For the first time, Yad Vashem will inaugurate an exhibition this week on Muslims who saved Jews during the Holocaust.
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Holocaust Museum Opens at Belsen
BBC News, October 28, 2007
Germany has inaugurated a new museum at the site of the Nazi concentration camp where diarist Anne Frank died.
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How Holocaust Heroine Rescued 2,500 Children Chicago Tribune, October 21, 2007
What the four high school students did started out simply enough: collaborate on a National History Day project to write a short play about an event from the past. What they accomplished when it was all said and done has been stunning: discover, research and introduce to the world an unsung Polish heroine of the Holocaust, a woman who daringly saved some 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto yet remained virtually unknown to historians and the public for more than 60 years. 
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The Horrible History of the Holocaust
Adam Tooze reviews The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany And The Jews 1939-1945
by Saul Friedlander
November 10, 2997, Telegraph.co.uk
Crematorium III at Auschwitz-Birkenau could reduce a pile of bodies to ash in 20 minutes. The hair was the first to go. The skin and what little fat there was beneath crackled within seconds. As blood vessels boiled, arms and legs contorted upwards. The skull burned last, little blue flames shooting up from the eye sockets as the brain was consumed.  This is how the majority of the 1.1 million victims of the Auschwitz camp ended up, roughly a fifth of the total victims of the Holocaust, drawn from all over Europe...No one seriously interested in European history in the 20th century can escape reading this book.
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