Boruch Spiegel, Who Battled Nazis in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Dies at 93
Mr. Spiegel was one of the last surviving fighters of the 1943 uprising, in which 750 Jews held off German soldiers for overa month with crude arms and Molotov cocktails.
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Even Ann Frank visit gets Justin Bieber undeserved bad press
The media's latest blow-up of a Justin Bieber story has come in the form of a visit he paid, out of respect, to the Ann Frank House in Amsterdam. It's where Frank hid from Nazis for so long, eventually being captured and sent to her death in a camp.
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Warsaw Ghetto uprising survivor blasts 'evil' Israeli occupation
One of the last remaining survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis delivered a fierce condemnation of the Israeli occupation of Palestine during a speech commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Holocaust ghettos and camps now estimated at over 42,000
The uncovering of the full extent of the Holocaust continues after researchers at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum made known the findings of 13-years work of documenting ghettos, slave labor and concentration camps the Nazis maintained during the war.
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Pakistan Boycotting Call of Duty , Medal of Honor Games
An anonymous reader writes "As first-person shooters have evolved, they've transitioned from using Nazis as the bad guys to more modern organizations, such as the Taliban. Two recent games, Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Medal of Honor: Warfighter, have both shown the country of Pakistan in a very negative light, and now shopkeepers in the country are beginning to boycott the games. 'Saleem Memon, president of the All Pakistan CD, DVD, Audio Casette Traders and Manufacturers Association, said he had written to members ordering them not to stock the controversial games after receiving dozens of complaints. ... The latest installment of the Medal of Honor series opens with American Navy Seals coming ashore in Karachi docks on a mission to destroy a black market arms shipment. But when their detonation sets off a second, bigger explosion they realize they have stumbled on a much bigger terrorist plot, sparking a global manhunt. A chaotic car chase through the city follows amid warnings that ...
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