Tag: The Holocaust
Arizona refurbishes gas chamber in push to resume executions
PHOENIX — As it aims to resume executions after a seven-year hiatus, Arizona has refurbished its gas chamber, where the nation's last lethal-gas execution...
Wisconsin lawmaker compares museum’s mask policy to Nazis
MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin state lawmaker compared a nonprofit children's museum's mask policy to the Nazi Party in a social media post that...
David Dushman, who helped liberate Auschwitz, dies at 98
BERLIN — David Dushman, the last surviving Allied soldier involved in the liberation of Auschwitz, has died. He was 98.
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Alaska Jewish museum, gay bar tagged with swastika stickers
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A tall, thin man wearing a hood and a mask was caught on a security camera plastering Nazi stickers on a...
Pope kisses hand of Auschwitz survivor
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has kissed the tattoo of an Auschwitz survivor during a general audience on Wednesday.
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House GOP leaders condemn Greene over Holocaust comments
WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders forcefully condemned GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday, calling her comments comparing House COVID-19 safety rules like mask-wearing...
Roman Kent, who urged world to remember the Holocaust, dies
NEW YORK — Roman Kent, who survived the Holocaust and helped make sure the world never forgot its horrors, has died. He was 92....
Germany commemorates icon of resistance to Nazism
BERLIN — Germany on Sunday commemorated the 100th birthday of Sophie Scholl, a young woman who became an icon for her role in the...
Holocaust survivor who led Yad Vashem memorial dies at 94
JERUSALEM — Yitzhak Arad, a Holocaust survivor and scholar who was the director of Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial for more than two decades,...
Holocaust survivor who testified against Eichmann dies at 91
JERUSALEM — Joseph Zalman Kleinman, a Holocaust survivor who survived the Auschwitz death camp and testified against Adolf Eichmann in the Nazi commander's trial...
