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Tomasz Greniuch, holding papers, makes a gesture that appears to be a Nazi salute at a far-right event in Poland in 2007. (Bartosz Siedlik, courtesy of Gazeta Wyborcza)

Polish historian resigns state position over 2007 photos of him performing Nazi salute

Tomasz Greniuch’s 2019 appointment had been controversial in Poland because of his ties to a far-right group.

Netanyahu: Equatorial Guinea plans to move embassy to Jerusalem

The United States and Guatemala have moved their embassies to Jerusalem since 2018, and about half a dozen other countries have pledged to do so.

US deports 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard back to Germany

“The passage even of many decades will not deter the department from pursuing justice on behalf of the victims of Nazi crimes,” said the US acting attorney general.

Moved by her story, Pope Francis visits Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck at home in Rome

The far-right politician Volen Siderov lifts his arm at a political rally in Sofia, Bulgaria on March 11, 2011. (Wikimedia Commons)

Bulgarian courts failed to punish Holocaust denier, European tribunal rules

The lost Torah scroll of Dordrecht, the Netherlands, measures 45 yards in lengths. (Courtesy of NIG)

In Holland, a Torah scroll returns to Jewish hands 80 years after it was hidden from the Nazis

French-Jewish lawmaker Yael Braun-Pivet holds a paper flower offered by a man at a migrant detention center in Paris, France on Sept. 18, 2019. (Stephane de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images)

Hate mail to French-Jewish lawmaker tells her to ‘prepare for the camps’

Assailant who beat up kippah-wearing Jewish man in front of German synagogue will not go to jail

Former intelligence officer convicted in first use of Romania’s law against Holocaust denial

A state historian in Poland is seen in pictures from 2007 giving the Nazi salute

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