International News

Omens In Mitteleuropa

05/07/2013 | Michele Chabin | Israel Correspondent

Budapest, Hungary — Close to the parliament building, dozens of shoes from a bygone era stand at the edge of the Danube River, the focal point of this picturesque central European city.

Swiss Fund To Hasten Fuller List Of Victims

05/01/2013 | Stewart Ain | Staff Writer

A milestone in Holocaust history — compiling all the names possible of the Nazis’ Jewish victims — appears within reach as a result of the proposed allocation of $4.5 million from the Swiss bank settlement with Holocaust victims and survivors.

Ukrainian Savior Of Synagogue Honored

04/24/2013 | JTA

KIEV, Ukraine -- A Ukrainian Christian who saved a dilapidated rural synagogue was honored at an interaith forum in Kiev.

A Taste Of Poland’s Jewish Past

04/17/2013 | Steve Lipman | Staff Writer

Warsaw — At a corner table in the Pod Samsonem restaurant, under framed etchings of the Bible’s Samson and of old Warsaw streetscapes, a middle-aged woman cuts up her “Jewish style” trout one recent evening.

Turning A New Page In Poland’s Jewish History

04/17/2013 | Steve Lipman | Staff Writer

Warsaw — Nine months before the start of World War II, a Jewish friend of Jerzy Prezdziecki wrote in a poem that “our friendship will never change to smoke.”

Thatcher Remembered For Her Affection For Britain’s Jews

04/09/2013 | Ron Kampeas/ JTA

Washington — History will remember former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for relentlessly facing down communism and helping to turn back more than three decades of socialist advance in her country.