Persecution of Jews

“The Club” whose first season woke the ghosts of Turkey’s Jewish community turns its lens on Turkey’s Greek Orthodox Community & the pogroms of ’55

Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Ludovic Orban said on Wednesday that the Iasi Pogrom is the bitter lesson of a history that, although it moves away from us, must not be forgotten. The Romanian Parliament on Wednesday commemorated for the first time ever the victims of the June 1941 Iasi Pogrom in a solemn session as part of a joint plenary sitting.

The Jewish community in Moldova is a shadow of its former size, having being devastated by waves of pogroms before the Nazi Holocaust struck in the 1940s.

"About a century ago, almost half of the population in Moldova was Jewish," Rabbi Izakson recalled.

Three people were convicted during the submission of election papers at the Arena Armeec hall in Sofia. A man and a woman were taken to St. Anna Hospital for high blood pressure. The the third victim, who is a police officer, refused to be hospitalized.

Sept. 1 marks the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, the greatest tragedy of the 20th century, during which the nations of the world became objects of aggression from the most powerful and organized military machine of the time, led by the hateful Nazi ideology.

Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos and Parliament President Nikos Voutsis are participating on Thursday in the annual "March of the Living," the three-kilometer walk from the Auschwitz concentration camp to Birkenau, to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, Deutsche Welle reported.

For the first time, Bulgaria celebrates the International Holocaust Day as a full member of the International Alliance. 76 years ago their lives lost over 6 million Jews. Today, ambassadors and public figures have gathered together to recall the story of Sir Nicholas Winton, who has saved 8 trains with children from the death camps.

After media again highlighted falsehoods on Croatian Wikipedia, it removed a claim that Adolf Hitler attacked Poland in 1939 because Poles committed genocide against Germans in the country.

When hundreds of hardcore fans of Italy’s Hellas Verona Seria A football club chanted “Adolf Hitler is my friend” and sang that their team embraced the swastika, at a festive gathering in the summer, Italian Jewish communities complained - and waited.

Former bodyguard of American singer Mariah Carey plans to sue her for sexual harassment and humiliation of human dignity, reports inews. 

Bodyguard Michael Anello claims that Carey humiliated him and his colleagues and called them Nazis, skinheads, and members of the Ku Klux Klan, and was also personally harassing him.