Yad Vashem Honors Czech 'Righteous Tree'

Thousands of trees line Yad Vashem's Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations, honoring the people who saved Jews during World War II. On Monday, Israel's official Holocaust memorial honored its first "righteous tree," a hollow 33-foot high birch that hid Jakob Silberstein as he escaped Auschwitz.

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Once again an Israeli journalist asked the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee how he'd help prevent a second Holocaust. "Senator can you assure Israel that there will be no second Holocaust despite Iran's threat to wipe us off the map?" he asked.

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"The Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial project is planning to create an Arabic-language website. Yad VaShem created a website in Farsi one year ago, shortly after Iran hosted a conference of Holocaust deniers.

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The Holocaust and the Occupation

Over the last couple of years, especially since the intifada of 2000, there has been a worrying trend amongst Israel's enemies to compare the Israeli occupation with the holocaust.

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The World War I-era massacre of Armenians by the Turks should be recognized as genocide despite the political ramifications such a move would have with Turkey, the chief Nazi hunter of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center said Thursday.

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The Vatican ambassador to the Holy Land said Thursday that he would not attend the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day state ceremony at Yad Vashem because of a caption at the Holocaust Museum that referred to Pope Pius XII's controversial role during World War Two.

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"Dear Yad Vashem, we just wanted to say thanks for the good information.

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Abdelwahhab has become the first Arab nominated for recognition as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust memorial.

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The political rationale was to try to find a single Arab who saved a single Jew, which I thought would be a twist that might help lance the boil of Holocaust denial.

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