Peres Thanks Denmark for Saving Jews During WWII
President Shimon Peres hosts Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, who is on his first visit to Israel.
President Shimon Peres hosts Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, who is on his first visit to Israel.
Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke's family has lost track of his body, claims lawyer Paolo Giachini.
The funeral of Erich Priebke in a town near Rome was interrupted as hundreds of angry people protested against it.
Hungary must acknowledge its role during the Holocaust, the country's deputy prime minister says.
68 years after his death, the German town of Goslar plans to strip the Nazi leader of his honorary citizenship.
Blueprints for an expansion of Oskar Schindler's Poland factory were sold at an online auction, along with other documents.
Hungary pledges $160,000 towards the upkeep of the Auschwitz memorial, following criticism that it was stalling on funds.
Rare documents that fill in some major gaps in the story of Holocaust hero Oskar Schindler have gone up for auction online.
Scuffles erupted outside the Rome home of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke, as he celebrated his 100th birthday.
A Slovak court postponed a hearing into war crimes against 98-year-old Laszlo Csatary when he failed to appear.
American Mennonite who helped save Jewish children while in France during the Holocaust to be named Righteous Among the Nations.
Hungary announces deal with US-based Holocaust restitution organization on reparations for Hungarian Holocaust survivors.
Simon Wiesenthal Centre condemns plans by Latvian nationalists to mark World War II event that led to the massacre of Jewish population.
Hollywood's major studios not only accepted Nazi censorship, but collaborated with Hitler, finds new book.
Giovanni Palatucci, known as "Italy's Oskar Schindler", was in fact a Nazi collaborator, new research shows.
Simon Wiesenthal Center calls on US to investigate Minnesota resident suspected of being Nazi SS commandant who concealed wartime record.
A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II.
Warsaw walkway has been named in honor of Polish woman who saved 2,5000 Jewish children during Holocaust, following work of Kansas teens.
Secret drawings and sketches that a Czech artist produced and kept hidden from his Nazi captors go on display at the Jewish Museum.
The German theater director, whose controversial staging of a Richard Wagner opera was cancelled, says he was censored.
Hans Lipschis, a 93-year-old alleged former guard at Auschwitz, arrested by Germany. He claims he was a cook.
Holocaust survivors and US soldiers who liberated Nazi death camps came together Monday in what could be last commemoration of its kind.
A Slovak court has paved the way for the extradition of Laszlo Csatary from Hungary to Slovakia.
Hundreds of people, including Holocaust survivors, gathered as Poland marked the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
Around 100 people gathered at Warsaw's synagogue to pay tribute to the Jews who took part in the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
Six paintings that fell into the hands of the Nazis after their Jewish owner was forced to sell have been returned to his grandson.
Thessaloniki commemorated the 70th anniversary of the first deportation of its Jews to Auschwitz.
A former head of Vienna's Philharmonic Orchestra was a member of Nazi Germany's SS, historians say.
The Austrian Academy of Sciences acknowledges that many of its scientists were members of the Nazi party.
France will return seven paintings to the heirs of two Jewish families whose artworks were stolen during World War II.
Varian Fry, an American journalist responsible for aiding thousands of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust, was honored posthumously.
Germany is marking the 80th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's rise to power with the inauguration of an exhibition in Berlin.
UN Special Rapporteur, Richard Falk compares Hamas terrorists to fighters with the French resistance during the Holocaust.
Obama commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day by vowing “to stand in the way of any tyrant or dictator who commits crimes against humanity.”
Germany has "an everlasting responsibility" for the crimes committed by the Nazis, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday.
An opera about Nazi atrocities against handicapped children had its world premiere in Vienna on Friday.
A trove of about 4,300 rare vintage advertising posters that were seized by the Nazis in 1938 will go to auction in New York.
Israel's supreme court ruled that an Israeli-Serb accused of involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre could be extradited to Bosnia.
A foundation responsible for former Nazi concentration camp cancelled planned sale of barbed wire pieces due to outrage .
Norwegian police director: I want to apologize on behalf of all those who were responsible for deportation of Jews during WWII.
Winston Churchill was honored in Jerusalem with a statue proclaiming him a friend of the Jewish people and supporter of Zionist aspirations.
Grandson of wealthy Jewish businessman is demanding that Swiss foundation return Monet masterpiece his family was forced to sell during WWII
Severe hunger increases breast cancer risk in Jewish women survivors of World War II.
Greece appointed a panel to scour historical archives to determine whether Germany might still owe money in reparations for Nazi war crimes.
New research indicates that a chief aide to Hitler urged British intelligence to topple the fascist dictator.
A memorial to Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of thousands of Jews during WWII, was inaugurated in Stockholm.
Amsterdam is commemorating a Righteous Gentile who saved 350 Jewish children during WWII by dedicating a nameless bridge in his honor.
NY State Comptrolleri's office is teaming up with the Holocaust Era Asset Restitution Taskforce to track down property of Holocaust victims.
Swedish minster calls for an annual day on calendar to remember the Righteous Gentile who saved hundreds of thousands of Jews from Nazis.
August Kowalczyk, the last remaining survivor from a group of prisoners who escaped Auschwitz in 1942, passes away at 90.
A British newspaper says it has tracked down the world's Number 1 'Most Wanted' Nazi war criminal.
Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel returns Hungarian government award after top officials in Budapest attend a ceremony for a Nazi sympathizer.
The fate of 23 operatives on a secret mission in Lebanon remains unknown, government says. Historian: it’s a cover up.
A play, telling the story of more than 30,000 Jews sheltered by the Chinese during World War II, premiered in Shanghai on Thursday.
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinijad accused the "Zionist regime" of starting WWI and WWII before Israel even existed.
Sixty-six years ago this weekend, the USA unleashed a nuclear weapon of mass destruction against Japan.
A 97-year-old Hungarian man was acquitted on charges of involvement in the Nazi murders of 35 people during World War II.
The Cabinet Sunday approved a memorial site to Jewish soldiers who fought in World War II and helped the victory over the Nazi regime.
The former head of the Croatian police during World War II, Milivoj Asner, has died a free man in Austria last week at the age of 98.
Some 10,000 people in Dresden formed a human chain to block neo-Nazis and skinheads from marching in eastern Germany on Saturday.