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Hungarian Holocaust Survivor Istvan Kormendi Still Treating Hundreds At 97
Hungarian family doctor and Holocaust survivor Istvan Kormendi, widely considered the oldest in his profession, is still practising his "passion" of healing patients at the age of 97.
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Europe's New Holocaust Museum Pits Jews Against One Another
A Hungarian museum built to remember the horrors of the Holocaust is pitting branches of the European Union's largest eastern Jewish community against one another.
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94-Year-Old Former Auschwitz Death Camp Guard, Goes On Trial In Germany
A 94-year-old former SS sergeant went on trial today in western Germany on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder, based on accusations that he served as a guard in the Auschwitz death camp as hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews and others were gassed to death there.
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Holocaust Documents Trove Unearthed in Budapest Apartment
A vast and historically valuable trove of Holocaust-era documents, long thought destroyed during World War II, has been found hidden in a wall cavity by a couple renovating their Budapest apartment.
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Verdict Due in German Trial of 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz'
A verdict is due today in the case of a former SS officer known as the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz, expected to be one of the last German trials of its kind.
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Prosecutors Seek Three And a Half Years' Jail for 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz'
German prosecutors today said they were seeking three and a half years' jail for a former SS officer known as the "Bookkeeper of Auschwitz".
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Hungarian Jews March in Memory of Holocaust Amid Far-Right Alarm
Thousands of people on Sunday joined Hungary's annual "March of Life" commemorating the Holocaust, as World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder denounced the country's surging far-right Jobbik party as "extremist".
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'Yellow Star' Holocaust Memorials Held in Hungary
Over 1,000 Hungarians took part in some 160 Holocaust memorial events across Budapest on Saturday, the 70th anniversary of the forced relocation of Jews during World War II into "Yellow Star Houses".
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Record Holocaust commemoration march in Hungary
Hungary's annual "March of Life" commemorating the Holocaust drew a record 25,000 people on Sunday as part of events marking 70 years since the start of mass deportations of Hungarian Jews in World War II.
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Hungary Jews seek return of WWII looted Torahs from Russia
Hungarian Jewish leaders said on Tuesday they had begun talks with Russian authorities over the return of a huge collection of religious items looted by the Red Army during World War II.
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Hungarian Holocaust Survivor Istvan Kormendi Still Treating Hundreds At 97
Hungarian family doctor and Holocaust survivor Istvan Kormendi, widely considered the oldest in his profession, is still practising his "passion" of healing patients at the age of 97.
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Europe's New Holocaust Museum Pits Jews Against One Another
A Hungarian museum built to remember the horrors of the Holocaust is pitting branches of the European Union's largest eastern Jewish community against one another.
-
94-Year-Old Former Auschwitz Death Camp Guard, Goes On Trial In Germany
A 94-year-old former SS sergeant went on trial today in western Germany on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder, based on accusations that he served as a guard in the Auschwitz death camp as hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews and others were gassed to death there.
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Holocaust Documents Trove Unearthed in Budapest Apartment
A vast and historically valuable trove of Holocaust-era documents, long thought destroyed during World War II, has been found hidden in a wall cavity by a couple renovating their Budapest apartment.
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Verdict Due in German Trial of 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz'
A verdict is due today in the case of a former SS officer known as the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz, expected to be one of the last German trials of its kind.
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Prosecutors Seek Three And a Half Years' Jail for 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz'
German prosecutors today said they were seeking three and a half years' jail for a former SS officer known as the "Bookkeeper of Auschwitz".
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Hungarian Jews March in Memory of Holocaust Amid Far-Right Alarm
Thousands of people on Sunday joined Hungary's annual "March of Life" commemorating the Holocaust, as World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder denounced the country's surging far-right Jobbik party as "extremist".
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'Yellow Star' Holocaust Memorials Held in Hungary
Over 1,000 Hungarians took part in some 160 Holocaust memorial events across Budapest on Saturday, the 70th anniversary of the forced relocation of Jews during World War II into "Yellow Star Houses".
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Record Holocaust commemoration march in Hungary
Hungary's annual "March of Life" commemorating the Holocaust drew a record 25,000 people on Sunday as part of events marking 70 years since the start of mass deportations of Hungarian Jews in World War II.
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Hungary Jews seek return of WWII looted Torahs from Russia
Hungarian Jewish leaders said on Tuesday they had begun talks with Russian authorities over the return of a huge collection of religious items looted by the Red Army during World War II.
