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A Florida woman has been arrested and indicted in connection with the alleged scamming of a Holocaust survivor out of millions of dollars in savings. “Today we allege the defendant callously preyed on a senior citizen simply seeking companionship, defrauding him of his life savings,” FBI Assistant Director Michael J. Driscoll said in a news […]
Whoopi Goldberg has issued an apology for her recent remarks about Jewish people. Last week, the Anti-Defamation League called out Goldberg for making “deeply offensive” comments to The Sunday Times of London. In an interview with the British newspaper, Goldberg suggested Jews are not a race. “My best friend said, ‘Not for nothing is there no box on […]
A 101-year-old German man has been sentenced to prison for serving at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II. The Washington Post reports the man, identified as Josef S. by German media, was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison after being convicted on over 3,500 counts of accessory to murder. The man, […]
Whoopi Goldberg expressed her “sincerest apologies” on Twitter Monday after saying that the Holocaust wasn’t “about race” in a recent segment on The View. Her comments came as the show’s hosts were discussing a Tennessee school district banning Art Spiegelman’s poignant graphic novel about the Holocaust, Maus. After the panelists focused on whether nudity—cited as a reason to cease teaching […]
An instructor at a Washington D.C. elementary school has been placed on leave after asking her third grade students to reenact scenes from the Holocaust, the Washington Post reports. Scenes included students digging mass graves and pretending to be shooting victims, Watkins Elementary School Principal Scott Berkowitz reportedly shared with parents in an email. One student, who is Jewish, was allegedly […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets A top administrator in a Texas school district advised teachers last week to give students access to books containing […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets A 96-year-old woman who once served as a secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp was arrested […]
Kentaro Kobayashi, director for the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Tokyo, has been fired for a Holocaust joke he made over two decades ago, The Daily Beast reports. Olympic Organizing Committee president Seiko Hashimoto confirmed his dismissal in a press conference Thursday, saying the commission was made aware of the resurfaced video containing the joke two […]
The Department of Justice is still working to eradicate people who committed Nazi war crimes during the Holocaust. The latest person to be deported is a 95-year-old Tennessee man who worked as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp in Germany. CBS News reports that Friedrich Karl Berger—who’s lived in the U.S. since 1959—was flown […]
UPDATED 2/10, 11:25 p.m. ET: Gina Carano has been dropped from The Mandalorian. “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” a spokesperson for the production company told Deadline. “Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.” […]
