Simon Wiesenthal

EU official says the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s annual antisemitism list has gone too far

Katharina von Schnurbein, the European Union’s coordinator for fighting antisemitism, says the center’s list is now hurting the cause it means to uplift.

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 10, 2022 3:43 pm

Austria to create award named for Simon Wiesenthal

The prize of about $17,000 would go to an individual who demonstrates a commitment to fighting anti-Semitism or educating about the Holocaust.

July 13, 2020 11:32 am

‘Remember the 11 million’? Why an inflated victims tally irks Holocaust historians

The notion that 5 million non-Jews died in the Holocaust, unbound by any scholarship, seems to have been behind President Trump's controversial commemorative statement.

January 31, 2017 5:36 pm