Drunk airline passenger, 28, who gave Nazi salute and launched racist tirade in front of Holocaust victims’ ‘disgusted’ family on Wizz Air flight from Poland to Liverpool avoids jail ‘Clearly drunk’ Louis Mann, 28, gave a Nazi salute amid a tirade of racist abuse A passenger, who lost family to the Holocaust, said he was … Read more
A German court has fined an academic for claiming that a Jewish concentration camp prisoner had a lesbian relationship with an SS guard. Dr Anna Hájková, an historian at the University of Warwick, has been fined €4,000 (£3,700) for breaching an injunction that prevents her from naming the prisoner. The injunction was granted to the … Read more
The daughter of a Holocaust survivor saved from the Nazis by Prince Philip’s mother Princess Alice has thanked the late royal for her bravery. Speaking in a new documentary, Evy Cohen, reveals how her father Alfred Haimaki Cohen, head of a prominent family with ties to Greek royalty, sought out the royal as their only hope of … Read more
The Supreme Court will on Monday look into cases against both Germany and Hungary over atrocities committed against Holocaust victims by the Nazis. In the case involving Germany, the descendants of a group of Jewish art dealers say their ancestors were forced to sell a collection of religious art, known as the Guelph Treasure and called the … Read more
Twitter CEO revealed Wednesday that his company’s policy on ‘misinformation’ does not include a ban on Holocaust denial. He faced multiple questions at a hearing Wednesday about the subject while getting grilled by Republican senators, who also pressed him in the hearing a week before the election why some of President Trump’s comments have received … Read more
The daughter of a holocaust survivor is suing an academic who claimed her mother had a lesbian relationship with an SS guard. Dr Anna Hájková, associate professor of modern continental history at Warwick University, reportedly named the two women last year and said they had had a sexual relationship. In April of this year, a … Read more
A new survey has found that two-thirds of American Millennials and members of Gen Z do not know that six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. The survey of adults ages 18 to 39 was commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, examining knowledge about the Holocaust among young Americans. The survey … Read more
Suspended nurse who compared public health restrictions to the Holocaust becomes the new face of anti-vaxx hysteria Kate Shemirani, 54, is due to host a rally in Trafalgar Square next Saturday She has promoted bogus claims on social media that vaccines are poisonous On Twitter earlier this week, she asked her followers whether the public … Read more
Controversial former football pundit Matt Le Tissier has once again caused outrage on social media after sharing an image appearing to compare the plight of the holocaust to the present day situation of wearing masks during the coronavirus pandemic. Le Tissier, who was recently sacked from his position at Sky Sports as a long-serving TV … Read more
Facebook has been accused of ‘actively promoting’ Holocaust denial on its platform, in a new report by a British think-tank. Researchers from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, which works to counter extremism, found that people who had ‘liked’ Holocaust denial content on Facebook were directed to more of the same by the site’s algorithm. The … Read more