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Lithuanian police holding activist who protested glorification of alleged Holocaust perpetrators

Miquel Puertas is a persona non-grata in the Baltic nation for criticizing state honors for those accused of being killers of Jews.

Two men walk down a street in a residential area of Amsterdam, the Netherlands on April 23, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Dutch man is acquitted after saying hackers sent anti-Semitic death threats from his computer

Police failed to record the messages despite multiple complaints by the victims, who have since been evicted. The Dutch Jewish community’s watchdog is furious.

Jewish man beaten at supermarket in Uman, Ukraine

Clashes between locals and haredi Orthodox Jews coming to the city for a Jewish New Year pilgrimage are a common occurrence.

Hundreds associated with anti-Semitic movement attempt to break into German parliament building

Jewish men walk down a street in the Pushkin area of Uman, Ukraine of ‎Sept. ‎9, ‎2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Haredi Orthodox Jews barred from entering Ukraine for annual Uman pilgrimage

South Carolina congressman asks Trump to pressure Ukraine to allow Rosh Hashanah pilgrims

Gabor Hirsch visits the former Auschwitz I concentration camp in Poland on January 26, 2015 (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Gabor Hirsch, prominent Swiss activist for Holocaust education, dies at 90

Rosalie Wolpe speaks to a relative on the phone on her 111th birthday at a retirement home in Cape Town, South Africa on Aug. 25, 2020. (David Wolpe)

Jewish woman celebrates 111th birthday under lockdown in South Africa

Vatican hid Holocaust orphans from their families and urged Pope Pius XII not to protest deportations

Yiddish psychedelic rock band Forshpil brings electric guitar to the shtetl

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