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Armenia’s capital honors Holocaust survivor who coined the term ‘genocide’

The genocide perpetrated by Turkish troops in Armenia was an early and power influence on lawyer Raphael Lemkin.

Georges Loinger, French Resistance fighter who saved Jewish children from the Nazis, dies at 108

Loinger, who was Jewish, smuggled at least 350 Jewish children whose parents had been killed or sent to Nazi concentration camps in small groups across the Franco-Swiss border.

Benjamin Netanyahu and Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro visit Rio synagogue

Rio was the starting point of Israeli Prime MInister Benjamin Netanyahu’s five-day tour to Brazil, which will end with Bolosnaro’s inauguration.

1 in 5 non-Christians in France never heard of the Holocaust, survey finds

London mosque to celebrate Muslims who rescued Jews in the Holocaust

Rabbi’s death from flu in Ukraine has community in panic

Romanian firm discriminated against Jewish employee, court rules

Gun fired at bedroom of Belgian Jewish family

British bank to divest from Israeli arms maker over ‘human rights’ issues

Outside Amsterdam’s Portuguese Synagogue, Spanish olive trees endure northern winters

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