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Die Welt apologizes for false historic statement 25.11.2008 The Polish embassy in Berlin has received a letter of apology from the editor of Die Welt newspaper in connection with its publication of an article in which the Nazi wartime death camp of Majdanek had been described as ‘a former Polish concentration camp’. In the letter, the paper’s editor Thomas Schmid expressed regret over the publication and surprise at the possibility of making such a mistake by his staff. He also pledged to rectify the false statement in print. An acknowledgement of the mistake has already been put up on the...

Twenty-five German professors have signed a manifesto published in the Frankfurter Rundschau calling on Germany to stop giving Israel "preferential treatment," because, among other reasons, the country "helped" establish Israel by expelling Jews from Germany during the rule of the Third Reich. Approximately 160,000 Jews who were expelled from Nazi Germany ended up in Mandate-era Palestine and strengthened the Jewish presence here at the expense of the Arab population, they said.

Amid signs that the Bush administration may be backing away from unequivocal support for independence for Kosovo, the head of the Albanian American Civic League is appealing to the American Jewish community to advocate on behalf of Kosovo, a region of the former Yugoslavia that is predominantly inhabited by ethnic Albanians. “When Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic was massacring Albanians in Kosovo in 1998-99, the American Jewish community took the lead in pressing President [Bill] Clinton to bomb Serbia, because they instinctively understood the nature of genocide and were determined to keep it from being repeated,” said Joseph DioGuardi, a onetime...

CERTAIN GROUPS claim the Holocaust never happened. Almost from the beginning of the discovery of this widespread destruction of European Jewry before and during World War II, Nazi apologists, anti-Semites, and selfstyled “skeptics” have tried to discredit the accepted history of this period. Deborah Lipstadt of Emory University has termed this phenomenon “Holocaust denial.” While originally an obscure movement, since the rise of the internet in the mid-1990s, Holocaust denial has grown significantly, and new adherents continue to set up web sites dedicated to “debunking the myth.” The upside to the growing awareness of Holocaust denial is that organizations and...

Bosnian Serbs mark 60th anniversary of dismantling of Croatia's "Auschwitz" BELGRADE, April 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Bosnian Serb President Dragan Cavic and about 3,000 people, mostly Serbs, gathered in Bosnia's northern village of Donja Gradina on Sunday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the dismantlement of the Jasenovac camp, Croatia's most notorious death camp in World War II. The Jasenovac camp, known as Croatia's Auschwitz and located about 100 km southeast of Croatia's capital Zagreb, was set up in 1941 by Croatia's pro-Nazi Ustasha regime. Donja Gradina used to be part of the Jasenovac camp complex. "In this place genocide...

The Polish KoLiber Association's Letter to the Editor of the NYT re. Mr. Craig Smith's Jan 27 article "World Leaders Gather for Auschwitz Ceremony" To the Editor: Dear Sir, I am writing on behalf of myself and the organization I represent to express our utmost outrage as members of the Polish nation, at the depiction of Polish-Jewish relations by Mr. Craig Smith in his article, "World Leaders Gather for Auschwitz Ceremony," published in your January 27th, 2005 edition. We feel deeply offended by the harmful and untrue ideas expressed in the following statement: "for Russia it is a commemoration of...

w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m Duisenberg: Israeli occupation worse than Nazi occupation of Netherlands AMSTERDAM - A Dutch Jewish group on Friday called on European Central Bank chief Wim Duisenberg to distance himself from "disturbing and highly controversial" statements by his pro-Palestinian wife during a visit to the Middle East. Gretta Duisenberg during her visit to East Jerusalem earlier this week. (Photo: Archive) Europe's top central banker waded into an escalating row over his activist wife Gretta Duisenberg earlier this week after she met Palestinian...