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Thomas Edelmann was born in Germany more than 25 years after the Allies defeated Hitler. Yet last year, following an unexpected marketing call, the 49-year-old businessman contacted a retired teacher in Israel to apologize for the actions of the grandfather he never met. Growing up, Edelmann had heard rumors about the family business and suspected it had previously been owned by Jews who were forced to sell to his paternal grandfather, Wilhelm. In recent years, the father of two had begun to dabble in genealogy. He came across Nazi tax records confirming that the Jewish owner -- Benjamin Heidelberger --...

The signal for the coming end of the Jews in Germany and Europe began with a law declaring them aliens in their own country. The 1935 Nuremberg law that stripped the Jews of citizenship was met with silent acquiescence by the vast majority of Germans. But not by justice inspector Friedrich Kellner: "If the Jews, who have contributed real achievements over the centuries to our nation’s development, can be made a people without rights, that is an act unworthy of a cultured nation, and the curse of this evil deed will indelibly rest on the entire German people." As a...

Arab seller of Hebron house said sentenced to death Local settler leaders seek UN, US, EU intervention April 16, 2012, 2:28 JERUSALEM (JTA) - Jewish leaders in Hebron have called for international intervention to help the Palestinian man sentenced to death for selling a home near the Cave of the Patriarchs to Jews. A letter on behalf of Muhammad Abu Shahala, a former intelligence agent for the Palestinian Authority, was signed by Hebron Jewish community leaders David Wilder and Noam Arnon, and addressed to, among others, the secretary-general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon; U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton;...

MOSCOW (AFP) - School children are the latest target of a Russian crackdown against ethnic Georgians in the wake of a spy scandal, Moscow officials said, as rights groups warned of "outrageous" discrimination. Alexander Gavrilov, spokesman for the Moscow city education department, said that police had issued an order for schools to provide the authorities with lists of students with Georgian names. "There is such an order in some schools. The education department is aware of this," Gavrilov said Friday, adding that his department strongly opposed the measure. The measure follows the closing of Georgian-owned restaurants, casinos and other businesses...

The association of former Poles in Israel has launched a public campaign against a bill to return private property to its owners that is now being discussed by the Polish parliament, charging that it grants de facto recognition to the Nazi regime's Nuremberg laws. In a letter sent to the leaders of every parliamentary faction in Poland, the organization warned that the bill "would make Poland the only country in the world that grants legal validity to the Nuremberg laws, at least with regard to Jewish property." The bill, which is currently being discussed in committee prior to its final...