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Hans Achterhuis in Amsterdam on August 27, 2017. (Wikimedia Commmons)

Dutch national laureate philosopher calls Diaspora a ‘blessing’ because it prevented Jews from having power

“And one sees how it can go wrong if that power does exist, in the State of Israel,” Hans Achterhuis said in an interview published on Israel’s national Holocaust memorial day.

Prince Philip, who opposed Nazis and was first British royal to visit Israel, dies at 99

Philip’s support for Jewish and pro-Israel causes ran deep, and his mother risked her life to save Jews during the Holocaust.

The son of JTA's Europe correspondent pictures here when he was nearing his 2nd birthday, examines a memorial cobblestone for murdered Dutch Jews in Heerlen, the Netherlands on July 29, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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Growing up in Anne Frank’s shadow, my kids have known about the Holocaust since before they could speak

JTA’s Europe correspondent never insulated his children from the H-word. He doesn’t think he would have succeeded even if he tried.

Ukrainian Chief Rabbi Ya’akov Dov Bleich holds a Torah scroll during the opening ceremony in Kyiv, Ukraine on April 7, 2021 of a synagogue on the site of the Babi Yar 1941 massacre of Jews. (Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center)

Collapsible synagogue opens on former killing ground of Babyn Yar in Ukraine

The Catholic Universoty of Lublin. (Wikimedia Commons)

Polish university calls lecturer’s anti-Semitic blood libel part of ‘scientific discourse’

belarus Lyubov Arkhiptsova-Volchek stands at her home in Hlusk, Belarus in March 2021. (From the Depths)

‘Not too late to show gratitude’: First housing project for elderly rescuers who saved Jews in the Holocaust launches in Belarus

The aftermath of anti-Semitic vandalism at the synagogue of Larissa, Greece on Dec. 3, 2020. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Larissa)

Anti-Semitic assaults worldwide dropped 19% in 2020 due to pandemic, report says

Richard Bernstein, a justice on Michigan's state Supreme Court, has been living in Dubai since he got stuck there en route to Israel in January. (Asma Ali Zain)

A blind Jewish Michigan Supreme Court justice was stuck in Dubai en route to Israel. He stayed there for months.

Franz Josef Huber. (National Archives of Slovenia)

Top Nazi official who spied for US was allowed to avoid trial until his death in 1975

Liliana Segre attends a ceremony honoring people who saved Jews during the Holocaust in Milan, Italy March 05, 2021. (Alessandro Bremec/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

This 90-year-old Holocaust survivor is a ‘senator for life’ in her native Italy. She also receives constant anti-Semitic threats.

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