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Hitler's childhood home
Hitler's Home To Be
Holocaust Museum
Adolph Hitler's two-story childhood
home in the Upper Austrian town
of Braunau am Inn will be turned
into a museum called the "House
of Responsibility," according to the
Austrian website, The Local. The
museum will depict the crimes against
humanity committed by Hitler's Nazis
during the Third Reich.
Currently owned by a retired local
woman who refuses to reveal her iden-
tity, the building has been rented by
the Austrian Interior Ministry since
1972. Government officials met with
the homeowner last spring to talk about
plans for the museum.
Close to the border with Germany,
the house has been empty for the past
two years as local leaders argued about
the home's future, with some calling for
its demolition. Until now, the building
has been used as a library, bank, techni-
cal high school and most recently as a
workshop for the mentally handicapped.
A previous proposal to convert the
house into a living space sparked fears
the building may fill with Hitler wor-
shippers. Suggestions to create an anti-
Nazi memorial have also been rejected.
The final decision now rests with
Austria's interior ministry, which is
expected to approve the project before
the end of the year.
IDF Death Toll Up To 72
(JNS.org) Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
soldier Sgt. Shahar Shalev, 20, died
from wounds he sustained during battle
in Gaza. Shalev was a soldier in the
Paratroopers' Brigade who was wounded
July 23.
With his death, the overall Israeli
death toll from this summer's conflict
with Hamas rose to 72.
Yiska Dekel — the spokeswoman of
Moshav Alonei Habashan in the Golan
Heights, where Shalev lived — said
her community "bows its head in sor-
row over the untimely death of one of
its children, Shahar Shalev, who fought
heroically for our country," according to
Haaretz.
IDF soldier Netanel Maman, who
was recently hit by shrapnel in a rocket
attack near Ashdod, became another
post-truce casualty of Operation
Protective Edge when he died on Friday.
Body Of Missing American
Yeshiva Student Found
(JNS.org) Israeli police last week located
a body believed to be that of missing
American yeshiva student Aaron Sofer.
The body was found in the Ein Kerem
neighborhood near the Jerusalem Forest,
according to reports.
"We can confirm that a body was
found today near the Jerusalem Forrest
and that a forensics team is at the sight
now to determine if it is the missing
yeshiva student," Israeli police spokes-
man Micky Rosenfeld said in a state-
ment.
Sofer, 23, had been missing since Aug.
22, when he and a friend went on a hike
in a difficult rocky and wooded portion
of the Jerusalem Forest. At some point
during the hike, Sofer and his friend
apparently became separated, with Sofer
never emerging.
Nighttime prayer vigils had been held
in Sofer's hometown of Lakewood, N.J.
Islamic State Actions In Iraq
Are 'Attempted Genocide'
(JNS.org) Syriac Catholic Patriarch
Ignace Joseph III Younan called the
Islamic State terror group's actions in
Iraq "pure and simple religious cleans-
ing and attempted genocide" following a
visit to the region.
Younan was in Iraq last week as part
of a delegation of Catholic and Orthodox
patriarchs who visited the Kurdistan
capital of Irbil to give moral and spiri-
tual support to hundreds of thousands of
displaced Christians and other minori-
ties there.
"What we, the five patriarchs, saw
in Ankawa, Irbil, and other cities of
Kurdistan was something indescribable
in terms of the violation of human rights
and the threat of disappearing of vari-
ous communities among the vulnerable
minorities of Northern Iraq," Younan
said, the Catholic News Service reported.
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The 13 burials will be the final act of
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