Hungary, Holocaust and Supreme Court

Supreme Court deals a severe blow to Holocaust survivors' lawsuit against Hungary
A unanimous Supreme Court on Friday dealt a severe blow to Holocaust survivors and their families in a long-running lawsuit seeking compensation from Hungary for property confiscated during World War II.
Supreme Court Rejects Holocaust Survivors’ Suit Against Hungary
The justices unanimously ruled that the plaintiffs had not established a connection to the United States required by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
US Supreme Court blocks Holocaust victims from suing Hungary in American courts
A group of Holocaust victims may not sue Hungary in American courts to recover property stolen during World War II because their funds were comingled with other funds, the Supreme Court ruled Friday in a long-running case about how much reach US courts should have to settle disputes abroad.
Justices Rule Against Holocaust Survivors in Lawsuit Against Hungary
Justice Sonia Sotomayor acknowledged that her ruling will make it "harder" for plaintiffs to satisfy an exception to foreign sovereign immunity for stolen property sold for cash.
Supreme Court unanimously sides with Hungary in Holocaust survivors’ lawsuit
The Supreme Court unanimously sided with Hungary on Friday by rejecting a group of Holocaust survivors’ legal theory that sought to haul the country into American courts to pay compensation. The
Justices rule out “commingled funds” theory in Hungarian Holocaust survivors’ compensation suit
A unanimous Supreme Court on Friday threw out a ruling by a federal appeals court that allowed a lawsuit brought by survivors of the Hungarian Holocaust to go forward. The survivors contended that the
Bearing witness: Portraits of Holocaust survivors
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From respect to reconciliation: Arizona Holocaust survivors share calls to action
Dozens of Holocaust survivors call Arizona home. In fact, more than 70 survivors live in the Valley. Many, now in their late ...
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Holocaust Documentary Kicks Off Gainesville’s 14th Jewish Film Festival
The voice of Adolf Eichmann, one of the orchestrators of the Holocaust, blared through the speakers for everyone who attended ...
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Watson installation presents multimedia portrayal of Holocaust survivors’ experiences
In a new installation at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs titled “Looming in the Shadows of Łódź,” ...
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First Letters of People of Faith after the Holocaust
If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.' While antisemitism sweeps the globe, it is time to remember, act, and place our faith in G-d. A book that expresses ...
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‘This is not what we expected in this final chapter of our lives’: Holocaust survivors speak out about Hamas invasion
Holocaust survivors who volunteer at a museum speak of their horror at seeing scenes of their youth play out in Israel. WASHINGTON (JTA) — They spend their days telling students and tourists ...
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Marian Turski, Holocaust survivor who warned against silence, dies at 98
Marian Turski, a Polish Jew who survived Auschwitz and two death marches as a teenager and later became a resolute memory-keeper and journalist, gathering testimony from other Holocaust survivors ...
Descendants of Holocaust survivors mark 76th anniversary of Cypriot internment camps’ closure
Snunith Shoham says she was only a few months old in February 1947 when British authorities permitted her family to leave one ...