Germany said it is open to a review of reparations paid out to Holocaust survivors in Israel.

A German government spokesman, Thomas Steg, said Wednesday that Berlin would not turn down a request by the Israeli government to reassess a reparations treaty signed in 1952.

The remarks followed a c…

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Israel’s national Holocaust museum was accredited as a non-governmental organization by the United Nations.

The accreditation, announced by Yad Vashem in a statement Thursday, will permit the museum to participate in U.N. deliberations and enhance collaboration on issues of Holocaust remembra…

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Berlin’s Holocaust memorial is said to be in urgent need of repair.

Hairline cracks were found in some 400 of the monument’s 2,711 slabs. Among several possible explanations are frost damage and building works nearby.

The $14.5 million Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe was un…

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A Canadian court upheld a request from the Italian government to extradite a former Nazi prison guard.

The British Columbia Court of Appeal upheld the request to extradite Michael Seifert, who was convicted in absentia of nine counts of murder committed when he was a guard at the Bolzano trans…

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Holocaust survivors in Israel demanded Sunday that the Jewish state raise what they consider a laughable new offer of $20 monthly stipends.

At least 500 of the elderly survivors and supporters rallied outside parliament, carrying placards and wearing stickers reading “The Holocaust is still h…

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President Shimon Peres and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu united Sunday in calling on the government on Sunday to resolve a row over allowances to thousands of elderly Holocaust survivors living in Israel. Holocaust survivors and many politicians censured the government over plans to grant …

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Some 2,500 people rally in protest of state’s decision to raise Holocaust survivors’ pensions by less than NIS 100 a month. ‘I’m not optimistic, I doubt things will change,’ says one survivor

Some 3,000 Holocaust survivors and their supporters arrived in Jerusalem Sunday afternoon to take part in…

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Heads of Israel’s Holocaust survivor organizations hold emergency meeting following Olmert’s proposal to allocate NIS 130 million in financial assistance in 2008; ‘it seems as though the government considers us a burden and is waiting for the biological solution,’ survivor says

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Auschwitz Museum files official complaint to Israel protesting Israeli visitors’ need to talk on cellular phones inside camp

Honoring the memory of the Holocaust victims is not as important as the Israelis’ need to talk on cellular phones, apparently. The management of the Auschwitz Museu…

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Some of most notorious Nazi death camps, now run as museums, could soon demand entrance fee from visitors to help to finance educational facilities, The Times reports. These are graveyards; you do not pay to mourn the dead,’ says spokesman for Central Board of Jews in Germany

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