Rep. George Santos says he’s gathering proof to confirm his Jewish heritage. Santos told CNN’s Manu Raju that this is “something I’m going to prove before I die.” The embattled New York Republican has admitted to lying about his education and work history. Rep. George Santos is doubling down once again on his claims that he … Read more
Two days after the Israel-Hamas war broke out on Oct. 7, 83-year-old Holocaust survivor Yaakov Weissmann relocated from his home near Gaza in southern Israel—where 23 of his family members live—to an apartment in an elderly home in a safer area southeast of Tel-Aviv. Between the experience of being uprooted and watching the coverage of … Read more
An adviser for a Los Angeles City Council member is out of a job after making Holocaust jokes about Amy Schumer on social media. “The social media posts made by my staffer earlier today were disturbing and reprehensible,” Councilman Hugo Soto-Martínez wrote in a statement after Josh Androsky’s vile tweets began to circulate. “With antisemitism … Read more
Play video content TMZ.com A Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust — and is currently living in Israel — is getting terrible flashbacks amid the attacks by Hamas … a group she calls “inhuman,” and horrifyingly reminiscent of the Nazis of her childhood. 90-year-old Lucy Lipiner joined us Monday on “TMZ Live,” along with her … Read more
TEL AVIV, Israel — Women, children and older adults hiding in safe rooms gunned down mercilessly. Homes set ablaze with terrified residents still inside them. Children, some bound, forced into a room and slaughtered. Jews, helpless. For many Israelis and Jews around the world, the horrors committed by Hamas militants during their stunning onslaught on … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment correction A earlier model of this text misstated the variety of folks killed within the Holocaust. Six million Jews and and greater than 10 million others had been killed, in accordance with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, not 6 million complete. This model has been corrected. A 98-year-old former guard at … Read more
For 3 many years after the Holocaust, Nechama Tec tried to maneuver previous her wartime reminiscences. She refused to learn concerning the genocide or watch motion pictures about World Warfare II, focusing as an alternative on her sociology profession in the USA, the place she studied teenage drug use within the Connecticut suburbs. When acquaintances … Read more