• OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Canada has granted the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada intervener status in the case of Helmut Oberlander, a 94-year-old former Nazi who illegally gained entry into Canada by lying about his past. (bnaibrith.ca)
  • Former Nazi death-squad member Helmut Oberlander has died in the midst of his Canadian deportation hearing. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Helmut Oberlander has said he was forcibly conscripted by the Nazis when he was 17 years old. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Liberal and Conservative governments have been pursuing Helmut Oberlander since 1995 for lying about his participation in a Nazi death squad when applying for citizenship in Canada. (albertajewishnews.com)
  • TORONTO (May 2, 2018) - Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) is monitoring today's court appearance concerning former Nazi interpreter Helmut Oberlander as he appeals the latest revocation of his Canadian citizenship. (albertajewishnews.com)
  • They included Helmut Oberlander, who served in Special Detachment 10a of Einsatzgruppe D , "a mobile killing unit of the Nazi SS that murdered tens of thousands of Jewish and other civilians in southern Ukraine and the Caucasus. (powerlineblog.com)
  • Sept. 23, 2021 Our CEO, Michael Mostyn, and Senior Legal Counsel, David Matas, were quoted by the National Post in an article about the death of Helmut Oberlander. (bnaibrith.ca)
  • Sept. 23, 2021 Our CEO, Michael Mostyn, and Senior Legal Counsel, David Matas, were quoted in an article by Canadian Jewish News about the death of Helmut Oberlander. (bnaibrith.ca)
  • Helmut Oberlander, an ethnic German from modern Ukraine, died at age 97 in the Waterloo area on Wednesday. (bnaibrith.ca)
  • The Honourable Minister Ralph Goodale Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness House of Commons Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6 Dear Minister Ralph Goodale We the undersigned are calling for the immediate deportation of former Nazi Helmut Oberlander following the exhaustion of all possible legal defences. (bnaibrith.ca)
  • Rabbi Dr. Jacob Schacter will lead a discussion with co-authors Rabbis Boruch Oberlander and Elkanah Shmotkin at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New York. (chabad.org)
  • The lecture was by "historian Rabbi Boruch Oberlander, head of the Budapest Orthodox Beis Din and a long-time leader in the Hungarian Jewish community. (blogspot.com)
  • Apart from the topic of antisemitism speakers examined the demographic situation of Hungarian Jews, their historical experiences, the memory of the Holocaust, and characteristics of the Jewish cultural life. (danubeinstitute.hu)
  • Vrba expected his report would lead to concrete efforts by the Allies to preserve the lives of Hungarian Jews who had not yet been deported by the Germans. (thebcreview.ca)
  • The Canadian government has attempted to strip Oberlander of his citizenship on three separate occasions since 1995. (bnaibrith.ca)
  • The federal government stripped the 94-year-old Oberlander of his citizenship for the fourth time on June 20, 2017 for allegedly failing to disclose his wartime involvement with the Nazis upon settling in Canada. (albertajewishnews.com)
  • Q&A with Harav Gedalya Oberlander, rov of Heichal Menachem in Monsey. (spotify.com)
  • Waldheim also served in an intelligence unit known for transport of civilians to slave labor camps, deportation of Jews to death camps , reprisal execution of hostages, and massacres of partisans and civilians in the Balkans. (powerlineblog.com)
  • In 2009, the Federal Court of Appeal determined that Oberlander served as a member of the notorious Einsatzkommando 10a unit, a mobile Nazi death squad that killed thousands of Jews. (bnaibrith.ca)
  • No amount of years or court appeals can erase the atrocities Mr. Oberlander helped commit as part of the Nazi war machine. (albertajewishnews.com)
  • The Simon Wiesenthal Center has Oberlander on its annual list of the Most Wanted Nazi War Criminals for having served in the Nazi death squad, Einstazkommando 10a , which is estimated to have killed 23,000 civilians - most of which were Jews. (albertajewishnews.com)
  • The Soviet commander read out the names and transferred the Jews to Nazi SS officers. (powerlineblog.com)
  • after the Nazi-collaborationist Vichy regime was established in France, the British government declared all German and Austrian men enemy aliens, disregarding that so many were Jews fleeing Hitler's sphere of influence. (prtcls.com)
  • Oberlander served from 1941 to 1943 as an interpreter with the Ek 10a unit, which was responsible for killing more than two million people, most of them Jews. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize ("Oberlander Prize"), which will be conferred biennially beginning in 2021, is the first and only international landscape architecture prize that includes a $100,000 US award, along with two years of public engagement activities. (jewishindependent.ca)
  • The Gellai family were Oberlander Jews who followed minhag Ashkenaz and descended from distinguished rabbinic luminaries such as the Chacham Tzvi and Panim Meiros. (tidesociety.site)
  • Oberlander, who had been living in Waterloo, Ont. (ctvnews.ca)
  • During the Pact, Stalin handed hundreds of Jews directly to the Nazis at Brest-Litovsk. (powerlineblog.com)
  • B'nai Brith's counsel in the Oberlander matter is acclaimed human rights lawyer David Matas . (bnaibrith.ca)
  • A lawyer for Oberlander recently asked the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada for an adjournment in a hearing on whether Oberlander could remain in Canada or be deported to Germany. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Oberlander is held in high regard both within and beyond her profession, as is reflected in the early results of a campaign to raise $1 million to help endow the Oberlander Prize, with commitments of $10,000 each from and/or on behalf of 100 women, part of a broader campaign to raise $4.5 million. (jewishindependent.ca)
  • Its origin lies in the immigration pattern of Jews into the country during the 18th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • Thus, a demarcation line separated the Austrian and Moravian Jews from the Galician Jews, who emigrated to the northeastern territories. (wikipedia.org)
  • Swindlers such as Bernie Madoff-former stockbroker and investment advisor who operated a Ponzi scheme-and Henry Oberlander-a conman so successful that he almost undermined the entire banking system of the Western world-demonstate that lies can compromise security, threaten democracy, and potentially cause death of those who defend us. (artcrimearchive.net)
  • In addition to the vehement enmity of the Mitnagdim (religious Jews opposed to Chassidism), Lubavitch was also threatened by the Maskilim ('the enlightened ones'), militantly secular Jews who tried to spread modern European culture and secular knowledge. (jhberke.co.uk)
  • Oberlander has worked on public housing in the United States and Canada, pioneered playground design with the Children's Creative Centre at Montreal's Expo '67 (and designed 70 other playgrounds), was an early champion of green roofs and, for decades, has advocated for landscape architecture's leading role in addressing environmental, ecological and social issues and the impact of climate change. (jewishindependent.ca)
  • Every minute I get another call or message, people in the city, non-Jews, offering to help with funds and toys for the children. (chabad.org)
  • Galil E'lion, "Upper Province") were the Jews who inhabited the northwestern regions of the historical Kingdom of Hungary, which are contemporary western Slovakia and Burgenland. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia: A Historical Reader. (wikipedia.org)