Mr. Yisrael Kristal who survived the historic Holocaust and recognised as world’s oldest living man by Guinness World Records has reportedly passed away in Isreal on Friday at age 113 years and 330 days. According to local news reports, He was one month away from his 114th birthday, before his demise at the northern port city of Haifa … Read more
Controversy has erupted after an Israeli art student reportedly claimed to have stolen items from the Auschwitz death camp for an exhibit, but her school said Thursday the claim was false. The school said the student, whose grandparents survived the Holocaust, had in fact taken items from outside the site in Poland, not the camp … Read more
Poland’s chief rabbi on Wednesday condemned a US congressman for recording a video inside a gas chamber at the former Nazi-German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, calling it inappropriate activity at a memorial site. “This is a place to be quiet. This is a place to meditate, to think — not a place to make videos and … Read more
New York on Tuesday renamed a Manhattan street corner after Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, Nobel peace laureate and humanitarian who died last year. The southwest corner of 84th Street and Central Park West on the Upper West Side was permanently renamed “Elie Wiesel Way” at a ceremony attended by city officials under the baking … Read more
A group of naked men and women today slaughtered a sheep in a bizarre ritual at the former Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland. Fourteen people, aged between 20 and 27, chained themselves together in front of the camp’s infamous ‘Arbeit macht frei’ (‘Work makes you free’) sign, according to museum staff. The group also … Read more