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Leon Rupnik, wearing a suit, giving the Nazi salute with German soldiers in Slovenia sometime between 1943 and 1945. (Archives of the Republic of Slovenia)

Slovenian court voids Nazi collaborator’s treason conviction

The 1946 trial of Leon Rupnik, who liquidated the country’s Jewish population and was executed, was ruled unjust.

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 14, 2020 11:46 am

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Actors performing the play "Our People" at the Juozas Miltinis Drama Theater in Panevėžys, Lithuania on Nov. 24, 2019. (Arvydo Gudo)

Lithuanian state theater stages controversial play on Holocaust complicity

Nazi hunter and commemoration activist Efraim Zuroff called the production of “Our People” near Vilnius “major progress” toward facing the country’s history.

November 25, 2019 2:40 pm

Serbia to block construction on former concentration camps

The president of the Balkan nation said the plans to build a shopping mall on the site of the former Nazi camp Topovske Supe will be made impossible through legislation to be passed this year.

September 2, 2019 9:08 am

Vilnius mayor orders removal of contested plaque honoring alleged war criminal

By Cnaan Liphshiz July 27, 2019 2:30 pm

A portrait of Adolf Hitler on a birthday cake in Italy, Jan. 27, 2019. (Photo courtesy of the Simon Wiesenthal Center)

Italian boy, 15, celebrates birthday with Hitler cake featuring Holocaust jokes

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 14, 2019 11:24 am

Puppets of Jews on display at the Aalst Carnaval in Belgium on March 3, 2019. Courtesy of FJO

I spoke to the creators of Belgium’s anti-Semitic carnival float. They’re not sorry.

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 6, 2019 4:15 pm

Puppets of Jews on display at the Aalst Carnaval in Belgium on March 3, 2019. Courtesy of FJO

Belgian mayor defends carnival float featuring Jews with money and a rat

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 5, 2019 6:32 pm

Paris duty free store sorry for invoice calling Tel Aviv airport ‘occupied Palestine’

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 21, 2018 12:36 pm

Soccer match in Argentina turns violent amid fans’ chants of ‘killing the Jews to make soap’

November 23, 2018 12:22 pm

Swedish doctor bullies Jewish staff, colleagues charge

November 15, 2018 8:03 am

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