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Bulgaria commemorates rescue of Jews during WWII

Ceremonies across the country mark the anniversary of protests that ultimately stopped deportation to Nazi death camps

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Macedonia remembers tiny Jewish community

Only a few dozen among thousands survived imprisonment at Treblinka

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‘Egalitarian’ Sweden horrified by a week of immigrant-led riots

About 15 percent of country’s 9.5 million people were born abroad, with a big recent influx from war-torn countries such as Iraq, Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Syria

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Israeli judge’s rulings making war-crime convictions harder

Reuters: UN tribunal justice Theodor Meron accused of setting precedent to make trying US and Israeli leaders more difficult, critics say

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‘If the world had acted morally, 50,000 Syrians could have been saved’

Asa Kasher, an Israeli authority on ethics and warfare, says the international community has consistently failed to confront genocide since World War II. And Israel, he argues, should be leading the...

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UN may name alleged perpetrators of war crimes in Syria

Investigators say publishing list of suspected criminals would serve as deterrent, call for international tribunal

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Groups call on Croatia to end collaborators’ pensions

Croation human rights group joins Simon Wiesenthal Center in asking government to stop giving money to known former Nazi helpers

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Far-right surges in Croatia as EU disappointment spreads

Rise of pro-Nazi activism in EU’s newest member state has many in Europe, and in Croatia, worried about country’s future

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Andreja Preger, Jewish anti-Nazi partisan, dies at 104

A noted concert pianist, the communal leader was ‘always torn between Jewish public work and music’

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Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic found guilty of genocide

UN war crimes judges hand down 40-year jail term for worst atrocities committed in Europe since World War II

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Even in Vienna’s socialist utopia, Austria’s far-right reigns

District of Simmering, once considered a left-wing haven, became first part of capital to be run by populist Freedom Party

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Croatia quashes controversial WWII cardinal verdict

Alojzije Stepinac still revered by Croatians, but is considered a war criminal in neighboring Serbia for his ties to the Nazis

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Trump campaign apologizes to Serbia for US bombing

In an interview with the Serbian weekly magazine Nedeljnik, Trump says Clinton’s policy made a mess in the Balkans

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Slovenia starts burying hundreds killed as Nazi collaborators

President says it is ‘state duty’ to give ‘civilized’ funeral to some 800 people executed by communist forces after WWII

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