Simon Wiesenthal Center

The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee fired the director of the opening ceremony on July 22 because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998.

"Two noteworthy events took place in Croatia during the past month that reflect in a very significant way on the phenomenon of Holocaust distortion, which is so rampant in post-Communist Eastern Europe," Zuroff writes, in an article entitled, "Failure to sincerely and honestly confront Ustasha crimes," and adds:

The director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center also told Vienna-based daily Der Standard that Austria's handling of perpetrators was "absolutely idiotic."

He particularly criticized the events taking place in Bleiburg each year, which the newspaper described as "annual meeting of right-wing extremist held in mid-May in Carinthia."

A Swiss hotel has come under fire for posting an antisemitic sign telling its Jewish guests to shower before swimming in the hotel pool.
Under the headline “To our Jewish Guests,” the sign at the Paradies Arosa hotel read: “Please take a shower before you go swimming. If you break the rules, I am forced to close (sic) the swimming pool for you. Thank you for your understanding.”

President Tomislav Nikolic has received Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Serbian president's press service said in a statement.

Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Bishop of Pakrac-Slavonia Jovan, and Lithuanian author Ruta Vanagaite also took part in the meeting in Belgrade this Thursday.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has expressed its "shock and indignation at several actions taken, and comments made" by Zlatko Hasanbegovic.

Hasanbegovic is the newly-appointed Croatian culture minister.

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova has been presented with a Special Award of Simon Wiesenthal Center, the international Jewish human rights organization, in recognition of her leadership and longstanding commitment to promoting peace and dialogue.

Efraim Zuroff, one of the best known Nazi hunters, says it is "absurd" to compare the Holocaust and the Rwanda genocide with the crimes committed in Srebrenica.

BELGRADE - The Memorial Day for the victims of Jasenovac marks the date of the liberationv of this concentration camp run by the Ustasha, one of the worst death camps in World War Two Europe, which some historians have dubbed the Serbian Auschwitz.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading international Jewish rights NGO, has issued a travel advisory, labelling Turkey’s current climate as a “prescription for disaster" in reference to the pro-Palestinian protests that led the Israeli government reduce its diplomatic presence in Turkey.