The everyday breads of Eastern and Central Europe have certain notable characteristics. Firstly, they are usually quite dense in texture and also sturdy. By that I mean they are ‘designed’ to hold smoked meats and cheeses, to absorb mustard and other condiments, to be chewy and just a little sour. Tovább »
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The world’s most wanted Nazi war crimes suspect has gone on trial in Hungary. 97-year-old Hungarian Sandor Kepiro struggled into the Budapest court to face charges over the murder of 36 Jews and Serbs in Serbia during the 1940s. Kepiro is accused of ‘complicity in war crimes’, something he vehemently denies. (MahNishmah. Tovább »
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JOSEPH TAUBER KAMIN Theodore (Benjamin Ze’ev) Herzl, considered the visionary of modern Zionism, was born in Budapest in 1860. He was educated in the spirit of Germany and the Jewish Enlightenment of the period, learning to appreciate secular culture. In 1878 his family moved to Vienna and in 1884 Herzl was awarded a doctorate in law. Tovább »
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The 3rd of Iyar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Yeshaya Steiner of Kerestir (1851-1925). (Reb Yeshayale Kerestirer)Born in Zbarav, Hungary, he lost his father at the age of 3. When he was 12, he was taken by his mother to Rav Tzvi Hirsch of Liska, the Ach Pri Tevua, whom he succeeded as Rav of Liska. Tovább »
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The trial of the man called the world’s most wanted living Nazi not yet brought to justice opened in Budapest on Thursday.Sandor Kepiro was charged with war crimes for his alleged part in the murder of 36 Jews during a 1942 raid by the Hungarian fascist police on the city of Novi Sad , in present-day Serbia. Tovább »
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BUDAPEST – A Hungarian court on Thursday began the trial of Sandor Kepiro, 97, accused over the massacre of more than a thousand people in the Serb city of Novi Sad during World War Two. Kepiro, a Hungarian, served as a gendarme during the war, when parts of Serbia were occupied by troops from Hungary, then allied with Nazi Germany. Tovább »
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The Nazi war crimes trial of a 97-year-old man began in Hungary on Thursday.Sandor Kepiro, listed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center as the world’s most wanted Nazi, was charged with taking part in raids on the Serbian town of Novi Sad in 1942, in which 1,200 Jews, Serbs and Roma were killed. Tovább »
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In the grounds of Stockholm’s Great Synagogue there is a set of train tracks that lead out of the grounds to the Raul Wallenberg monument . In between the train tacks are stones from the ghetto in Budapest, a gift from that city to the Stockholm Jewish community/synagogue. Filed under: holocaust . Tovább »
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Memory … An exclusive daily column Guysen International News 1941 The Hungarian authorities enclose approximately 3,500 Jews in the ghetto of Subotica (district annexed Backa, Yugoslavia). 1942 Beginning of the deportation of Jews Bilgoraj (Poland) extermination camp at Belzec. Beginning use of gas in the extermination camp of Auschwitz. Tovább »
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Nazi hunter Dr. Efraim Zuroff was acquitted by a Budapest court of libel charges leveled against him by an accused Hungarian Nazi war criminal. Zuroff, head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, was acquitted Tuesday by Judge Viktor Vadasz two days before his accuser, Dr. Sandor Kepiro, is scheduled to go on trial in Budapest Municipal Court. Tovább »
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