Former Auschwitz medic arrested in Germany

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website – 19 March 2014

Former Auschwitz medic arrested in Germany

World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder has praised the German authorities for acting against suspected Nazi war criminals despite their old age.

Gisela Kohn Dollinger, refugee who rescued husband from Dachau, dies at 111 – JTA

19 Mar 2014 Gisela Kohn Dollinger tricked death twice. Soon after Kristallnacht, when she was 36, Dollinger persuaded the Gestapo to release her husband from the Dachau concentration camp, and the two of them fled Austria for Shanghai, where she almost died of typhoid. READ MORE »

Hillary Clinton must once again win over some in Jewish community – CNN

19 Mar 2014 Clinton was an outspoken defender of Israel and representative for American Jews for eight years in the Senate. But it wasn’t always that way. READ MORE »

On second anniversary of Toulouse shooting, Europe’s Jews still wary of terrorism – Jerusalem Post

19 Mar 2014 Moshe Kantor, the head of the European Jewish Congress, said that communities on the continent remain targets for potential terrorists. READ MORE »

Auschwitz woman facing justice at 90 for ‘beating prisoners and forcing them to stand for days – Daily Mail

19 Mar 2014 This grainy photograph shows the female Auschwitz death camp guard who is set to stand trial on charges of aiding in mass murder. READ MORE »