Nazis
Did a prominent wartime rabbi fail European Jews?
By Yonat Shimron — May 31, 2016
(RNS) At the epicenter of this intense debate is the controversial relationship between FDR and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise.
German Protestants agree to help rebuild notorious Potsdam church
By Tom Heneghan — April 18, 2016
(RNS) There’s a whiff of nostalgia around the restoration, with critics claiming that the aim is to restore some of the glory of the Prussian kingdom that dominated Imperial Germany.
Now that Anne Frank’s diary belongs to the world, what will we make of her? (COMMENTARY)
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 5, 2016
(RNS) In new diary translations, we may see Anne Frank differently -- perhaps more as a Jew who knew that questioning the world is a gift from God.
French right-wing leader calls trial over Muslim remark ‘persecution’
By Reuters — October 21, 2015
At a rally in 2010, Marine Le Pen likened Nazi occupation during World War II to Muslim street prayers "because that is clearly an occupation of the territory."
‘Lost’ Jewish mural restored, installed in new home
By Elizabeth Murray — August 4, 2015
BURLINGTON, Vt. -- The 'Lost Shul' mural is part of a tradition of wall paintings in Eastern Europe that was almost entirely obliterated during the Holocaust by the Nazis.
Ukraine monuments on mass graves recognize Jews killed in Holocaust
By Michael Scaturro — July 15, 2015
LVIV, Ukraine (RNS) New monuments to Ukrainian Jews killed by the Nazis give family members a place to visit and pay their respects, seven decades later.
102-year-old finally awarded Ph.D. she was denied under Nazis
By Jaleesa Jones — June 11, 2015
When Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport first submitted her doctoral thesis on diphtheria in 1938, she was barred from completing her oral defense under Hitler's Nuremberg Race Laws, which disenfranchised citizens with Jewish ancestry.
God at Nuremberg: How an American pastor came to comfort Nazis
By Kimberly Winston — August 22, 2014
(RNS) How did a quiet American pastor come to be the spiritual care-giver of Nazi war criminals? A new book, "Mission at Nuremberg," dusts off an overlooked corner of World War II history.
COMMENTARY: Winning and whining are insufferable
By Tom Ehrich — January 27, 2014
(RNS) Class war isn't a resentment of success. It is a reaction against stealing, unearned privilege and arrogance.
Potsdam becomes nucleus of Jewish studies in Germany
By Michael Scaturro — December 6, 2013
POTSDAM, Germany (RNS) This city, about 22 miles southwest of Berlin, is gaining new prominence, as a center of Jewish learning. Last month the School of Jewish Theology at the University of Potsdam opened to great fanfare. It joins two rabbinical seminaries.
HBO documents unlikely saviors of 50 Holocaust children
By Lauren Markoe — April 3, 2013
(RNS) Against great odds, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus set out from Philadelphia to rescue 50 children from Nazi-controlled Austria, the subject of a new HBO documentary set to air on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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