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Valdas Rakutis walks into the Seimas building in Vilnius, Lithuania on Nov. 24, 2020. (Wikimedia Commons/Sofija Vytautaitė)

In Holocaust memorial day speech, Lithuanian lawmaker says Jews and communists share blame

“There was no shortage of Holocaust perpetrators among the Jews themselves,” said Valdas Rakutis, prompting a rare rebuke from the U.S. embassy.

Angela Merkel participates in historic Torah scroll writing ceremony

The 18th century Sulzbacher Torah, which survived Kristallnacht and lay unnoticed for decades in a cabinet in a synagogue, will be returned to ritual use.

Church bells toll in Nieuwlande, the Netherlands on Jan. 25, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

This Dutch village is finally ready to tell its unique Holocaust rescue story

Nieuwlande, where hundreds of Jews hid with help from the entire non-Jewish population, has opened a museum about its unique acts of resistance.

In first, Luxembourg offers $1.2 million in symbolic compensation to noncitizen Holocaust victims

The Palais Ephrussi, seized by Nazis during WWII, is seen in Vienna, Nov. 7, 2019. (Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images)

Austrian government, Jewish community vaccinate survivors on Holocaust Remembrance Day

The aftermath of anti-Semitic vandalism at a kosher restaurant in Paris, France on Oct. 2, 2020. (UEJF)

Anti-Semitic incidents drop by 50% in France, but physical assaults remain almost unchanged

Antwerp Mayor Bart de Wever in Antwerp, Belgium in May 2014. (Joker / Alexander Stein/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Antwerp mayor says haredi Orthodox ignoring COVID measures has triggered anti-Semitism — and it could get worse

10 sets of tefillin that the Shem Olam Holocaust museum said were found in Warsaw, Poland. (Courtesy of Shem Olam Faith & the Holocaust Institute for Education, Documentation & Research)

Israeli Holocaust museum under fire for allegedly smuggling artifacts out of Warsaw

Argentina Jewish family attacked by passengers in car shouting ‘Death to the Jews’

The Jewish Council of Amsterdam, the Netherlands during World War II. (Courtesy of the Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam)

In Amsterdam, the personal card of every Holocaust victim returns to Jewish hands

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