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While I happily read reports of the growth of the Jewish community in Germany just a few weeks ago, I was dismayed this week to read a JTA report that 66 years after the end of the Holocaust, 20 percent of Germans hold anti-Semitic views. Twenty percent. That’s two out of every 10 people. That is [...]  The BBC website has an intriguing interview this week with Howard Triest, a German Jew who became a U.S. military translator and helped psychologists analyze Nazi brass ahead of the Nuremberg Trials. During the interviews Triest came face to face with Rudolf Hoess, who had at one point controlled Auschwitz, where Triest’s parents were murdered. Despite [...] Competing in the Olympics is the highest aspiration for most athletes, but for Gretel Bergmann, that dream turned into a nightmare. The film “Berlin 36,” which opens today in New York, tells the tale of Bergmann, a Jewish woman who was one of the top high-jumpers in Germany in the 1930s. But in 1934, the [...] Anti-Semitism can be as blatant as a swastika scrawled on a synagogue door or as subtle as passing somebody over for a job because of a last name. Anti-Semites do not always wear brown shirts or white hoods, and sometimes, anti-Semitism can be the unintentional result of poor taste. Germany’s Spiegel Online reported this week the [...] Holocaust denial is a post-war version of anti-Semitism. So says British lawyer and academic Anthony Julius. He spoke Thursday night at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In a video clip posted online prior to the event Julius states, “Before the war the perception was that the Jews were immensely powerful and [...] |
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