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France

An armed man attempted to set fire to a synagogue in Rouen

The man was armed with a knife and an iron bar and was attempting to set fire the city’s synagogue.
United Kingdom

Antisemitic incident in central London as knife-wielding woman arrested

The woman was filmed shouting at a Jewish man, "You are to blame for all the problems in the world. You always start fights! Who started World War II? The Jews!."
Germany

Germany bans pro-Hamas group supporting ‘Palestinian resistance’

German authorities banned Palestine Solidarity Duisburg, which had expressed solidarity with “Palestinian resistance in all forms."
Norway

Norwegian woman found guilty of antisemitism following dissemination of hateful comments against Jews online

In total, the police registered 77 messages with illegal content sent to the Jewish Community of Oslo from the beginning of November 2023 to the end of February 2024.
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Germany

Germany pledges 120 million euros to Auschwitz preservation fund

Germany has doubled its share of a fund to preserve the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to 120 million euros ($135 million), Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said.
Portugal

Portugal finally recognises consul who saved thousands from Holocaust

Portugal finally granted official recognition to its "disobedient diplomat", Aristides de Sousa Mendes, that saved thousands Jews from the Holocaust by issuing them visas. Portuguese parliament decided a monument in the National Pantheon should bear his name.
Poland

New 3D digital reconstruction of the monumental New Synagogue in Wrocław

Explore a new 3D digital reconstruction of the monumental New Synagogue in Wrocław, Poland, which was built in 1865–1872 and destroyed on Kristallnacht.
The Netherlands

Dutch-Jewish WWII hero who saved hundreds of children dies at 96

Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk, a Dutch-Jewish woman who saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Holocaust, has died at the age of 96.
Germany

Antisemitic church sculpture gets reprieve

An antisemitic sculpture in a medieval Protestant church in the town of Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt, will not be removed after ongoing restoration efforts are completed, in spite of the church's pleas to do so.
Poland

Jewish cemetery in Poland vandalized with spray-paint

A wall of the Jewish cemetery in Tarnow, a city in southern Poland, was spray-painted with the letters “AJ”, likely meaning “Anti-Jude,” or "anti-Jewish".
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