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Credit Suisse had many more bank accounts with Nazi ties than previously known, investigation finds

A UBS audit discovered 890 potentially nazi-linked accounts, as well as support for escaping Nazis.

From left to right: Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Robert Karofsky, Global Wealth Management President at UBS Americas, Barbara Levi, General Counsel at UBS Group AG, and Neil Barofsky, partner at Jenner and Block LLP, testify during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
 Adolf Eichmann, pictured in 1941/1942, in his SS uniform. Eichmann fled to Argentina in 1950 before being captured by the Mossad in 1960.

Milei to open Argentina’s Nazi ratline archives, urged to reveal Holocaust records

 Representatives of DAIA, Argentina's Jewish umbrella organization, present 2023 data about antisemitic incidents at Buenos Aires City Legislature, Sept. 16, 2024.

Landmark ruling: Argentine politician convicted of antisemitism under IHRA definition

 Efraim Zuroff on the forefront of Simon Wiesenthal Center (illustrative)

Last Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff resigns from Simon Wiesenthal Center, vows to fight antisemitism


Pro-Palestinian organizations opposing annexation protest in France

The "mass" rally marched through the Paris center - from Barbès to Châtelet - "in solidarity with Palestine and its resistance."

Settlement of Elon Moreh, near Nablus, West Bank, June 11, 2020

Wiesenthal to Germany, Austria: Recall ambassadors to protest Iran

"They should explicitly denounce this religious Nazi in Tehran and recall ambassadors for his genocidal threat to Jewish people."

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gestures as he delivers a Friday prayer sermon in Tehran on January 17

The SS and the Vatican

What role did Erich Priebke play? The Pope Pius XII Archives may tell us.

Pope Pius XII, the pontiff during World War Two, appears in an undated file photo from the archives of Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano

Wiesenthal may list German diplomat for antisemitism on its top 10 list

Exclusive: Cooper said that “there must be a price to pay by support of people who want to get rid of Israel” and say it is “worse than apartheid.” Cooper said this is “over the top antisemitism.”

Rabbi Abraham Cooper associate dean and director

Simon Wiesenthal Center sues Chubb for coronavirus insurance coverage

The lawsuit shows how nonprofits can be drawn into the battle over pandemic coverage facing the property-casualty insurance industry, which has a roughly $750 billion to $800 billion surplus.

Gavel lying in front of a judge

List found of 12,000 Nazis in Argentina with money in Swiss bank

The list was found in an old storage room at the former Buenos Aires Nazi headquarters, having survived the burning of documents by Argentina's pro-Nazi leadership in the 1940s.

UNITED STATES prosecutors have been pushing for Credit Suisse, the biggest Swiss bank, in a tax-evasion probe into Swiss banks by US authorities, to plead guilty as part of a resolution of the investigation

Nazi-hunter’s granddaughter marks 75 years since Mauthausen’s liberation

Fewer than half of its inmates survived World War II. One was Kreisberg’s grandfather, Simon Wiesenthal — an architect by profession who would become the world’s most celebrated Nazi hunter.

Concentration camp survivor Ed Mosberg and a delegation from the U.S. attend the commemoration at the former concentration camp KZ Mauthausen, liberated by U.S. troops on May 5, 1945 at the memorial site in Mauthausen, Austria, May 5, 2019.

Pope Francis condemns resurgence of antisemitism around the world

"Once more, I firmly condemn every form of antisemitism," said Pope Francis at an event held by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Simon Wiesenthal Center delegation on eve of 75th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation with Pope Francis

Journalist Souad Mekhennet receives International Leadership Award

Souad Mekhennet received last week the Simon Wisenthal Center's International Leadership Award for "for her integrity and courageous commitment to shining light on forgotten victims of man’s inhuman"

Souad Mekhennet, Frankfurt Book Fair 2017

Lithuania drafting bill exonerating nation from Holocaust crimes

“The Lithuanians carried out violent riots against the Jews,” The US Holocaust Memorial Museum wrote.

A man walks past a sign at a commemoration place during the March of the Living to honor Holocaust victims in Paneriai near Vilnius, Lithuania