Holocaust

Holocaust researchers verbally attacked at Paris conference

'You dirty Jew.' Scholars researching Holocaust targeted by Poles over attendance at Holocaust study conference.

PM's office explains Netanyahu was misquoted on Poland

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office clarifies remarks he made regarding Poland and the Holocaust.

Polish PM 'seriously considering' cancelling Israel visit

Mateusz Morawiecki reportedly considering cancelling participation in conference in Israel following Netanyahu remarks about Holocaust law.

House pushes bill to fund Holocaust education in schools

Bipartisan group of lawmakers introduces bill to fund Holocaust education in schools.

How to explain the Holocaust to millennials

What is the best social media platform to get millennials’ attention and are they even interested in hearing about the Holocaust?

'Austria bears joint responsibility for the Holocaust'

Austrian president visits Jerusalem, discusses 'shared, painful' past, including his country's involvement in the Holocaust.

German sausage museum won't move to site of slave camp

Plans to move German Bratwurst Museum to Nazi slave camp site apparently nixed.

Plans for sausage museum at Buchenwald spark outcry

Former Nazi camp which held hundreds of Jewish prisoners to be turned into sausage museum, sparking criticism.

Russian Federation Council: We stopped Holocaust denial attempts

Chairwoman of the Federation Council says all attempts to deny the Holocaust in Russia 'are being stopped immediately.'

The Berlin nurse saw it all

UK Chief Rabbi salutes Holocaust survivors

Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis says survivors 'have been absolutely determined to teach the world about love, unity tolerance and peace.'

Polish PM: Hitler's Germany responsible for Holocaust, not Nazis

Polish Prime Minister says "all the evil" of the Holocaust came from Germany.

Poll: Five percent of British citizens deny the Holocaust

New poll finds more than 2.6 million British people think the Holocaust is a myth.

$4.6 million in federal funds to go to Holocaust survivors

Jewish Federations of North America to distribute $4.6 million in federal money appropriate by Congress to aid Holocaust survivors.

'Lesson of Holocaust is that we Jews must defend ourselves'

Education Minister Naftali Bennett addresses tells foreign dignitaries at Yad Vashem on International Holocaust Memorial Day.

"Time to give meaning to the phrase 'Never Again'"

European Union parliament marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day with special commemorative event in Brussels.

Holocaust victims laid to rest in Britain

Remains of six Holocaust victims killed in Auschwitz laid to rest 22 years after being sent to Imperial War Museum in London.

No bones found in Danube sweep for Holocaust victims’ remains

Sonar scan of Danube River in Budapest fails to reveal signs of human remains during search for bones of Holocaust victims.

London mosque secretly agrees to host Holocaust exhibition

Undisclosed London mosque agrees to host Holocaust exhibition that was cancelled by another mosque amid protests by Muslims.

New photos of Dachau survivors to be made public

Repository of Holocaust-era documents uncovers photographs of survivors of Dachau concentration camp, to make them available online.

German far-right offered free admission to Schindler's List

Cinema in western Germany causes uproar after offering free entry to showings of Schindler's List to far-right party.

Memorial to Greek Jews deported by Nazis is vandalized

Memorial to the Jewish Martyrs of Kastoria, in the northern region of West Macedonia, covered with black spray-paint.

Poland honors last surviving fighter from Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Warsaw observes moment of silence in honor of last surviving fighter from Ghetto uprising. 'May his memory live on,' says Polish president.

Underground hideout for Jewish tailor discovered on Polish farm

Site uncovered near Warsaw where farm owners hid their Jewish neighbor during World War 2.

Last fighter from Warsaw Ghetto Uprising passes away

Simcha Rotem, last surviving fighter from the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising by Jewish partisans against the Nazis, dies at 94.

Former Majdanek guard 'too sick' to face trial

German court says it won't put on trial 97-year-old former guard at Majdanek death camp due to his health.

Netanyahu: My job is to prevent future Holocaust

Speaking at business conference, Netanyahu says primary mission of any Israeli premier is to preserve state founded against all odds.

Online campaign: Kaddish for Jews who perished in the Holocaust

Shem Olam center calls on each user to say Kaddish in memory of a Jew who perished in the Holocaust and whose day of death is unknown.

Holocaust cobblestone memorials stolen from street in Rome

Memorials to Holocaust victims in Italy uprooted and stolen from Rome in what police call case of 'theft aggravated by racial hatred.'

Spielberg: Genocide as possible today as in WW2

Director of Schindler's list warns hate remains strong 25 years after release of award-winning film about the Holocaust.

'Es brent. breederlech, es brent!'(It burns, brothers, it burns)

Dutch trains to provide compensation for role in Holocaust

Netherland's state-owned railway says it is considering how to arrange personal compensation for its part in deporting Jews.

Anne Frank House unveils new audio tour, displays

King of the Netherlands in attendance as Anne Frank House unveils new audio tour and several new displays to its collection of exhibitions.

'Relations between Israel and Denmark are getting stronger'

President Rivlin hosts event marking the 75th anniversary of the rescue of the Jews of Denmark. 'Most Danes saw Jews as equal citizens.'

UC Berkeley archive acquires work by photographer Roman Vishniac

Vishniac known as photographer of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust.

'Righteous Among the Nations' nun dies at 110

Nun who hid Jews during the Holocaust lives to 110.

Former British PM took in Jewish child before Holocaust

Clement Attlee, former British PM after World War Two, sponsored Jewish family to leave Germany, housed one of the children, report reveals.

UNESCO and WJC launch website on Holocaust education

UN cultural agency teams up with World Jewish Congress to launch website dedicated to Holocaust education and memory.

Holocaust researcher files libel lawsuit against Polish group

Canadian professor sues Polish League Against Defamation for accusing him of falsifying Poland's history with Holocaust research.

Child of the Holocaust, Surviving Every Day

Rabbi Joseph Polak was three years old when the Holocaust ended. His survival story is still unfolding.

Ecuador restores credentials to consul who saved Jews in WW2

Ecuador posthumously restores diplomatic credentials to Manuel Antonio Munoz Borrero, who was removed from position for saving 100 Jews.

Kristallnacht and the Righteous Australian aboriginal William Cooper

Watch: IDF troops march at European death camps

Special documentation from the 'Witnesses in Uniform' delegation at the Lopochowa Forest and Birkenau and Majdanek extermination camps.

Lithuania defends Nazi collaborator accused of killing Jews

Defense comes in response to American activist’s lawsuit demanding removal of plaque in Vilnius honoring Jonas Noreika.

Western suicide via anti-Semitism

Holocaust institute ends Poland trips over 'Holocaust Law'

After Poland passes Holocaust censorship law banning claims of Polish collaboration, institute moves study trips from Poland to Ukraine.

Expanded Holocaust memorial plaza dedicated in Philadelphia

First-ever Holocaust memorial in US unveils expansion.

Father of Holocaust denial movement dead at 89

French academic Robert Faurisson, who helped build Holocaust-denial movement, dies at age 89.

Israeli Police visit Nazi death camps

180 policemen and woman form Star of David at Treblinka death camp in Poland.

Dramatic rise in German citizenship applications by British Jews

The number of Britons who asked Germany for the citizenship robbed from their families by the Nazis rose to 1,667 last year.

Family of Dutch diplomat punished for saving Jews gets apology

Dutch Foreign Ministry apologizes to family of Jan Zwartendijk, punished after saving thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.

In Denmark, the world's only happy Holocaust commemoration event

In Denmark, Holocaust commemorations are joyful, celebrating the successful rescue of most of the country's Jews. But Danes are changing.

Israeli teen fined for urinating on Auschwitz memorial

19-year-old Israeli man who admitted to urinating on memorial at Nazi death camp fined $1,350 by Polish court.

German volunteers 'bring a bit of good to the world'

This German group renovates Holocaust survivors’ homes in Israel for free.

Dutch art museums holding 170 works possibly stolen from Jews

42 museums in the Netherlands in possession of 170 pieces of art likely stolen from Jews during the Holocaust.

Is the world beginning to forget the Holocaust?

Does the new law enacted in Poland indicate that Europe is trying to rewrite the history of the Holocaust?

German President apologizes for the Holocaust

Frank-Walter Steinmeier apologizes for the Nazis' crimes during a visit to a concentration camp in Greece.

Holocaust survivor: I've had nightmares all my life

Danish Jews recall desperate escape from Nazis, 75 years on.

For the first time: Special needs young adults visit Auschwitz

World Jewish Congress coordinates with local organizations to bring special needs young adults to Poland.

Dutch diplomat punished for saving Jews, new book reveals

Book says Dutch Foreign Ministry reprimanded diplomat Jan Zwartendijk for working to save thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.