Retired FBI agent has new theory about who betrayed Anne Frank’s...
Enlarge / Anne Frank in 1940. A new book, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation, by Rosemary Sullivan, claims that a retired FBI special agent and a team of investigators have solved the mystery of who betrayed the Frank family to the Nazis.Public domain Former FBI special agent Vincent Pankoke was looking…
Facebook bans Holocaust denial amid rapid rise in “deceptive” content
Enlarge / Facebook's Menlo Park, California, headquarters as seen in 2017. Facebook today is, once again, theoretically ramping up enforcement against hate speech, this time with a new policy prohibiting Holocaust denial on the platform. The change is due to a "well-documented rise in anti-Semitism globally," Facebook executive Monika Bickert wrote in a corporate blog…
Holocaust Survivor Is First Coronavirus Death In Israel
A Holocaust survivor is the first reported fatality in Israel from COVID-19. Israeli media report that 88-year-old Arie Even moved from Hungary to Israel in 1949. He died Friday. He was one of several residents and staff at a retirement home in Jerusalem to catch the coronavirus, after a social worker reportedly caught the virus…
1.32 Million Jews Were Eliminated in Simply 3 Months Throughout the...
Operation Reinhard, known as the single largest murder campaign during the Holocaust, was worse than historians imagined. In a mere three months, at least 1.32 million Jewish people died — close to one-quarter of all the Jewish victims who perished during World War II, a new study finds. The finding is based on an old…
