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US Holocaust Museum shooter dies: officials

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An elderly white supremacist charged with shooting dead a guard at the US Holocaust Museum last year died Wednesday in a hospital near the jail where he was being held, a federal prisons official said. "Authorities at the location where James von Brunn was incarcerated, the federal correctional complex at Butner, North Carolina, told us that he was pronounced dead at a local hospital shortly before 1:00 pm today," Edmond Ross, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, told AFP. "He had a...Read Full Story

Accused gunman in U.S. Holocaust museum shooting dies

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An elderly man who was accused in a 2009 shooting rampage that killed a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., died on Wednesday, a prison spokeswoman said. James Von Brunn, 89, was wounded in the June 10, 2009, attack when guards returned fire and he had a history of poor health including chronic congestive heart failure and sepsis. However, the cause of death was not immediately available. He was being held at the medical wing of the...Read Full Story

Holocaust Museum to Romania: scrap 'racist' coin

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A leading Holocaust group has demanded that Romania's central bank withdraws from circulation a commemorative coin of a former church leader who held anti-Semitic views and called for Jews to leave Romania. Radu Ioanid, a director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum said he was "shocked" by the banks decision to mint the coin depicting late Patriarch Miron Cristea, who led the Romanian Orthodox Church from 1925 to 1939. Ioanid said the patriarch, who was prime minister from 1938-1939, was...Read Full Story

James Von Brunn, Suspected Holocaust Musuem Shooter, Dies at 89

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James Von Brunn , the aging white supremacist who was acussed of going on a shooting spree at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington in 2008, has passed away in prison while being held for trial. Von Brunn, 89, was suffering from numerous health problems, including chronic congestive heart failure and sepsis. No word on what the official cause of Von Brunn's death has been released. Von Brunn was a virulent racist, who had posted many anti-Semitic screeds to the Internet. He was under...Read Full Story

Suspected US Holocaust Museum shooter dies: official

| From afp.com
An elderly white supremacist accused of shooting dead a guard at the US Holocaust Museum in Washington last year died Wednesday in a hospital near the jail where he was being held, a federal prisons official said. "Authorities at the location where James von Brunn was incarcerated, the federal correctional complex at Butner, North Carolina, told us that he was pronounced dead at a local hospital shortly before 1:00 pm today," Edmond Ross, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, told...Read Full Story
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Oscar Nominee In Darkness Reviewed
Holocaust culture has proven to be essentially infinite: Almost 70 years since the end of World War II, untold stories of decimation and survival are still hitting the mainstream. Agnieszka Holland's new film, In Darkness, opens a scab perhaps only familiar to Holocaust Museum devotees &...  
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