News about Adolf Eichmann

Yesterday's deadly pager attack that saw nine people die and more than 2,700 people injured across Lebanon has been blamed on Israel.  Widespread panic and chaotic scenes were seen across Beirut's southern suburbs, the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon, while in neighbouring Syria 14 people were injured by the blasts, according to Britain-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.  More than 2,750 people were injured across Lebanon, with more than 300 people in a critical condition, after pagers used by proscribed terror group Hezbollah detonated over a period of an hour yesterday afternoon.

Nothing could be more grotesque than the sight of pro-Palestinian protesters at the gates of Auschwitz yesterday as Jews around the world marked Yom HaShoah. That's the day of remembrance for the six million souls who perished at the hands of the Nazis. As the son of a refugee from the horrors of the Holocaust, I can feel nothing but contempt for the ignorance, gross insensitivity and misguided hatred which inspired such a protest. Auschwitz, which I have visited several times, is at the heart of my own personal story. My dear grandparents Sandor and Fanya perished in the gas chambers there. Sandor is a Hungarian version of Alexander - and I am named after him.

A British-Palestinian surgeon who sparked controversy for his comments on the Israel-Palestine conflict said authorities in Germany had refused him entry on Friday, claiming the government was 'silencing a witness to genocide'. Professor Ghassan Abu Sittah, who received backlash after hailing the mastermind behind the 2018 drive-by killing of Rabi Raziel Shevach as a 'hero', said on Twitter/X he had been 'forcibly prevented' from entering the country to speak at a conference 'about my work in Gaza hospitals'. He was due to attend 'The Palestine Conference. We will put you on trial', an event calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, allegedly targeted by German pro-Israel organisations in recent weeks, inspiring calls for it to be banned.

I travelled Auschwitz (Sabrina, pictured left), 40 miles from Krakow, southern Poland, as part of the European Jewish Association's two-day conference held last weekend to coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day. 'We are reminded of the darkest days of the Jewish people and Europe here,' said former Israeli President Reuven Rivlin during a moving memorial service inside the camp.' "We invented the word "Never Again" when Birkenau-Auschwitz was freed, a hundred years ago.' I was positive the whole world learned a lesson before. But since October 7, I have been wondering: "Are those words just words, or do they mean something?"'

On Monday, Israeli politicians clashed with the families of hostages stranded in Gaza, sparking a fierce debate on whether to lift the death penalty for October 7 criminals. Hen Avigdori, whose wife and daughter were among 240 people kidnapped by Hamas last month, had been advised by lawmakers that instead of talking about killing Arabs and starting learning about saving Jews,' despite fears that a death penalty may have ramifications for their families trapped in Gaza. Almog Cohen, a far-right politician, who fired back, had a strong reaction during the outburst: "You don't have a mandate for pain, we also buried over 50 people."

On BBC2 at the time, there is a riveting documentary called The Devil's Confession - The Lost Eichmann Tapes. Eichmann was one of the leading Holocaust organisers, responsible for deporting millions of Jews to their deaths. He was able to flee Argentina, where he lived under an assumed name after the war. He was traced down by Mossad, Israel's intelligence service, and taken back to Israel, where he was arrested for war crimes a year later. He denied that he was simply following orders, but he was found guilty and hanged.

Participants in the online competition, which aims to foster 'healthy Hitlerian competition,' use pseudonyms to mask their identities. However, Simon Wiesenthal Centre (SWC), a US-based Christian University, has enthranted Sarah Mountford, a 42-year-old member of the far-right group Britain First, as the UK entrant, who calls herself Miss Aryan Angel and is favourite to win. The competition is sponsored by VKontakte's most popular social media website, called VK. It encourages people to vote for their favorite female supporters of the Nazi leader, with the winner of this year set to be announced on September 3. Ms Mountford claims she is a "straight, white, pure-blood female" with a longing to return to traditional ways in her personal speech on the competition website. Nature dictates the selection of the species. Blood and soil are mixed in the recipe. Ancestors and glory. Our people matter.'

DOMINIC LAWSON: Lord Pickles, the UK's top envoy on the subject, announced at the weekend that an investigation into how many Jews were killed on the Channel Island of Alderney during Nazi Germany's conquest, as this country prepares to accept the position as this country prepares to accept the chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, as this country prepares to deploy the UN's special envoy on the issue. During the invasion of the Channel Islands by the Nazis, we should see the high-level local cooperation. It's just painful to face.

Of course, Jews were particularly humiliating in their religious taboos; it was born into pigsies. However, the prisoners of this makeshift concentration camp on what had been a state farm were to suffer even more. Eleven thousand of them were packed into a space that was deemed suitable for only 7,000 pigs but then callously ended. They were literally naked, only rags and swatches of newspaper to cover them as temperatures dropped to minus 40 degrees in 1941, after bartering their clothes for food that never arrived. They froze to death and starving.

Historical Figures Chat, which was introduced on Apple's App Store earlier this month, uses artificial intelligence to provide answers to customers' questions. However, it has sparked controversy by allowing 'conversations' with history's most popular figures, who often refuse to accept blame for their crimes. Goebbels' answer (left) claims that the Nazi propaganda minister "did not hate Jews," while Adolf Eichmann (right), one of the Holocaust's main organisers, has expressed'sincere regret and remorse" for his conduct. History buffs took to Twitter to slam the app, with one (inset top) demanding that Apple'remove this garbage from the App Store and another expert saying it can't go anywhere near a classroom.'

Sidney Nolan is best known for his series of paintings depicting bushranger Ned Kelly in a black suit of armour. However, hundreds of his unveiled works on the Holocaust have never captivated the audience of his most famous images. Nolan was fixated by the atrocities committed in Nazi concentration camps, and he closely followed the 1961 trial of war criminal Adolf Eichmann. The artist had long wanted to react to the Holocaust, but was uncertain that the subject could be turned into art. 'How can a disease be painted?' He asked in his diary. Nolan was given a commission to tell a tale about the death camps, but he didn't get out a bush until he finally visited the crematoria at Auschwitz. The Sydney Jewish Museum has fifty paintings by Nolan before his trip to Poland, which are on display.