Pole who saved Jews honoured
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Poland pays homage to a woman who helped save the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II.
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MADRID, Spain : Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust museum and memorial, won a prestigious Spanish humanitarian award Wednesday for its work in promoting tolerance through the remembrance of the Nazi genocide. via International Herald Tribune
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"It's closer in many ways to theater than it is to a didactic display based on a collection"  An empty lawn in the heart of what was once the Warsaw Ghetto will soon become a place not only of mourning, but of celebrating the Jewish life that flourished in Poland before it was destroyed in the Holocaust.Jewish leaders and President Lech Kaczynski will break ground Tuesday for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. It sits on a highly charged site _ next to the city's monument to the Jews who resisted the Nazis during the 1943 ghetto uprising, and just down the street from the rail siding where many were deported to their deaths. Read more
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, whose father was detained at Flossenbuerg from December 1944 to April 1945, took part in the memorial service. via Ynetnews
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The Jewish State's first gold medal is hailed as a salve for the pain of the Munich massacre
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VIENNA -- Paying tribute to a key figure in the attempt to kill Adolf Hitler, Austria's president yesterday unveiled a plaque that praised an Austrian officer executed by the Nazis as a symbol of resistance to the German dictator.
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In a meeting that left her trembling with emotion, Hanna Morawiecka was reunited with the Jewish boy whose family she helped rescue from extermination in Poland during World War II.
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NWS Baranski, Tibor FP Vail Daily File Photo Tibor Baranski, 81, is credited with saving several thousand Jews during the Holocaust through his work with the Papal embassy in Budapest.
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BALACLAVA, Ukraine  - Britain's Prince Philip and sabre-waving cavalry re-enactors commemorated the charge of the Light Brigade on Monday, 150 years after the doomed British assault against Russian cannons in a Crimean War battle immortalized by the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson.
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The caretaker of Afghanistan's only functioning synagogue and one of the last remaining Jews in Kabul has died. But the man now believed to be the sole survivor of this once-thriving Jewish community, who feuded bitterly for years with the deceased, said Tuesday he was not sad to see him go.
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Italian Jews have a proud 2,000-year history. They were there when the Second Temple still stood and Rome ruled the Mediterranean.
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SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 12 -- Family and friends eulogized Gen. Augusto Pinochet on Tuesday as a hero of the Cold War who has been mislabeled as a murderous despot, and they appealed to history to judge kindly the man whose 17-year rule left behind a long trail of murder and abuse.
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The Nazis had killed nearly 20 of Inge  Deutschkron&#39;s relatives when she first turned her back on  Germany in 1946. Today, the Berlin resident is dedicated to  championing Germans who defied Hitler and saved Jews like her.
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Bells gently tolled as Ukrainian and foreign dignitaries on Wednesday commemorated the 65th anniversary of the Nazi massacre of Jews at the Babi Yar ravine, placing flower-encircled candles at the foot of a giant monument to the tens of thousands of victims.
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From Arab Knesset Member Azmi Bshara: &quot;We relied on him in certain political core issues since the man (Arafat) was a &quot;safe guard&quot; and because his presence at the negotiation meant no giving up.
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Maurice Papon, the French Nazi collaborator who died at the age of 96, became the symbol of bureaucratic inhumanity after he was convicted for helping organise the deportation of Jews during the Vichy era.
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BERLIN -- The first rabbis since the Holocaust were ordained in Germany yesterday, the latest marker in the gradual return of Judaism to a nation that once tried to eradicate all vestiges of Jewish life.