Simon Wiesenthal Center

Holocaust Denial: Assaults On Collective Memory Becloud Europe's Future

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.17.2012

Rabbi Abraham Cooper

No crime in the annals of history has been as well documented as Nazi Germany's Final Solution. Against this backdrop, how do we account for the growing phenomenon of Holocaust revisionism and denial?

Holocaust Remembrance Day: How You Can Help Preserve The Memory Of The Holocaust

The Huffington Post | Eleanor Goldberg | Posted 04.19.2012

The horrific stories of the 6 million Jews who were gassed, starved and shot point blank throughout the Holocaust are well documented. But the number ...

China's Outrageous Comparison Of The Dalai Lama To Nazis

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.27.2012

Rabbi Abraham Cooper

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has the greatest regard for the Dalai Lama and his efforts on behalf of his people. Our Center honored him with our Humanitarian Prize in 1996, and he has always served as a role model for dissent with dignity.

Responding To Murder At A French Jewish Day School

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.19.2012

Rabbi Abraham Cooper

All the House of Israel mourns the heinous, cowardly, anti-Semitic murders of a young rabbi, his two small children and another 10-year-old child, who were gunned down outside of a Jewish day school in Toulouse this morning.

Mormons Apologize For Posthumous Baptisms Of Holocaust Victims

AP | JENNIFER DOBNER | Posted 04.15.2012

SALT LAKE CITY — Mormon church leaders apologized to the family of Holocaust survivor and Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal after his pare...

Andrea Stone

Proxy Baptism Seekers Eyed Holocaust Survivor Elie Wiesel For Posthumous Mormon Rite

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.15.2012

A researcher who has spent years uncovering the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' controversial practice of posthumous proxy baptisms of Je...

New Nazi Hunting Drive

AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 02.13.2012

BERLIN — The Simon Wiesenthal Center on Wednesday launched an 11th-hour drive to find and prosecute Nazi war criminals while they are still aliv...

Architects Mutiny On Jerusalem Museum Of Tolerance

Posted 12.04.2011

The Simon Wiesenthal Center's new Museum of Tolerance building in Jerusalem has hit yet another snag in its impending construction, this time with its...

Holocaust Denial Pages Can Stay Says Facebook

Posted 09.27.2011

Earlier this month, 21 Holocaust survivors affiliated with the Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a plea to Facebook asking them to deny access to anyone ...

True Heroes For Our Time And Beyond

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 07.21.2011

Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Let us teach our children about the valor of true heroes, whose strength of character and faith protect the memory of the past and inform the limitless potential of the future.

I Will Shed No Tears for John Demjanjuk

Dorian de Wind | Posted 07.13.2011

Dorian de Wind

While a five-year sentence may sound excessive for a 91-year-old man, I cannot ignore nor forget the fact that, because of monsters like John Demjanjuk, some of my surname never had the chance to even reach the age of nine.

A Moment With One of the Chilean Miners

Lu Parker | Posted 07.09.2011

Lu Parker

While attending the Wiesenthal Center's National Tribute Dinner, I was introduced to a man named Luis Urzua. You may not know the name, but you surely know his heroic story.

Can a Palestinian Story Prompt Dialogue for Middle East Peace?

Danielle Berrin | Posted 05.25.2011

Danielle Berrin

Julian Schnabel must have known that screening a film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the United Nations General Assembly would be scene-ste...

96-Year-Old Charged With WWII War Crimes

AP | PABLO GORONDI | Posted 05.25.2011

BUDAPEST, Hungary — A former Hungarian military officer has been charged with war crimes in the 1942 slaughter of 1,200 civilians in Serbia, pro...

Canada 'A Terrible Failure' At Nazi Hunting, Says Watchdog

AP | JOSH LEDERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

JERUSALEM — A new report by a prominent Nazi-hunting group gives more than a dozen countries, including Hungary, Ukraine and Canada, low grades ...

How I Was Smeared as an Anti-Semite

Christina Patterson | Posted 05.25.2011

Christina Patterson

At the end of a long and exhausting year, it's sometimes hard to know what will hit the spot. A spa break in Thailand? A month-long marathon of black ...

The Presbyterian-Jewish Divide that Need Never Be

Joshua Stanton | Posted 05.25.2011

Joshua Stanton

The Presbyterian Church's members are diverse, as are its leaders. To claim that Presbyterians are "against Israel" is provocative, unconvincing, and even ironic.

Welcome to Jerusalem's Newest Settlement: The Museum of Tolerance

Bradley Burston | Posted 05.25.2011

Bradley Burston

Welcome to Jerusalem's newest settlement. Or, as it is formally known, the Center For Human Dignity -- Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem. Does it truly matter if the project goes forward on the present site? It does.

Churchill's Stand -- a Documentary View

Tom Teicholz | Posted 05.25.2011

Tom Teicholz

Who do we have to thank for Hitler's eventual defeat? Who, by his actions during the war, inspired Israel's early leaders? The answer, according to a new documentary, is Winston Churchill.

Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal Worked For Mossad, Book Claims

AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 05.25.2011

JERUSALEM — A new book claims renowned Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal worked for Israel's Mossad spy agency, providing information on war criminal...

Wiesenthal Worked For Israeli Spy Agency, Book Alleges

New York Times | ETHAN BRONNER | Posted 05.25.2011

"This requires us to adjust in some small way our view of history," said Tom Segev, the author of the new book "Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends...

Brian Grazer and Ron Howard Accept Simon Weisenthal Humanitarian Award

Posted 05.25.2011

Last night in Los Angeles, A-listers Jay Leno and Russell Crowe bumped shoulders with studio honchos like Iger and Katzenberg at the Beverly Wilshire ...

Abdurrahman Wahid: The Blind Man With 20/20 Vision

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Rabbi Abraham Cooper

A devout and scholarly Muslim, President Wahid showed the courage to lift restrictions on Chinese culture, promote Christian-Muslim dialogue, and even advocate normalizing relations with Israel.

Injecting 'Nazi' Into Debate Is Bad for the Health of America's Democracy'

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Rabbi Marvin Hier: "We demean ourselves and everything that America stands for when we compare either Democrats or Republicans to the Nazi Third Reich."

The Cambridge Kerfuffle Was Town vs. Gown, not Black vs. White

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Rather than black vs. white in New England, this may have been the latest chapter of "town vs. gown" carried over from Old England.