Holocaust

Writer Elena Ferrante is daughter of Holocaust survivor

Mysterious best-selling Italian author identified as the daughter of a German-born Holocaust survivor.

Rivlin stokes Ukrainian debate over Holocaust complicity

President Reuven Rivlin's accusations of Ukrainian Holocaust complicity cause uproar among Ukrainian nationalists.

Ukraine marks 75 years since Babi Yar mass slaughter of Jews

Ukrainians have been wrestling with their countrymen's role in collaborating with the Nazis ever since.

Jewish 'Avengers' of Nazis leader dies at 91

Joseph Harmatz, Holocaust survivor who led a group of Jews seeking to kill Germans in revenge for the Holocaust, has died.

Rivlin addresses Ukraine Parliament 75 years after Babi Yar

President Rivlin: 'We must not play a part in the sin of forgetting or denial. Leaders who support anti-Semitic ideas won't be welcomed.'

House introduces anti-Nazi bill

Bill to facilitate the return of Nazi-looted artworks to their original owners or heirs introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Holocaust victims included in Belarus-US pact

Belarus and the US sign an agreement to preserve and protect the cultural properties of all ethnic groups, including Holocaust victims.

Hundreds protest vandalism of Budapest Holocaust memorial

Hundreds protest in downtown Budapest against a vandalism attack on a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust in Hungary.

Rivlin meets daughter of Mayor who saved Jews in the Holocaust

President Rivlin meets the daughter of Greek Mayor who saved the entire local Jewish community of island of Zakynthos during the Holocaust.

Compensation for Holocaust survivors shipped via French trains

Payments have started issuing from a compensation fund for Holocaust survivors deported to Nazi camps via the French rail system.

The stones of Moletai: A lesson on the Shoah in Lithuania

German judge evades punishment for helping survivors

German judge who landed in legal trouble after helping Holocaust survivors apply for ghetto pensions settles the case out of court.

New Ken Burns film spotlights little-known Holocaust rescuers

“Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War” takes a look at American Christian couple who smuggled hundreds of Jews to safety.

German judge helps survivors apply for ghetto pensions

Jewish leaders rallying to the aid of a German judge facing punishment for helping Holocaust survivors apply for ghetto pensions.

Lithuanian towns mark Holocaust massacres of Jews

Lithuanian president leads ceremony marking 1941 slaughter of Jewish community.

EU allocates $1.5 million to expand Lodz train station museum

European Union allocates $1.5 million for the expansion of the museum at the Radegast train station in Lodz.

'Dutch Jewish community is unsustainable'

Dutch Jewish leaders claim the future of Jewish life in the Netherlands is grim.

Polish law aims to eliminate Holocaust reputation

Under the controversial new law, individuals who refer to the Nazi camps as "Polish death camps" will be imprisoned for up to three years.

Schindler's factory could be turned into Holocaust memorial

A factory in the Czech Republic once used by Oskar Schindler could be made into a Holocaust memorial after it was bought a Czech foundation.

Ukraine's honoring of war criminals leaves Jews uneasy, divided

Veneration of pro-Nazi collaborators raises concerns among Ukrainian Jews.

Watch: A survivor's forgiveness

How a Holocaust survivor reacted when he met his best friend - who was responsible for the deaths of his wife and child.

Germany mulls trying 8 concentration camp workers

German authorities identify four men, four women who helped operate Nazi concentration camp from 1942 to 1945.

Report: Traveling zoo set up on Holocaust site in Ukraine

City in northwestern Ukraine authorizes the placing of a traveling zoo on the mass grave of thousands of Jewish Holocaust victims.

Holocaust hero Wallenberg executed by Soviets, diaries show

KGB chief's journal reveals fate of Swedish diplomat instrumental in saving thousands of Jews from Holocaust.

Holocaust hero passes away at 90

Phillip Bialowitz, survived the Sobibor death camp rebellion, then dedicated his life to a promise he made to the rebel leaders.

'Lithuania - One big mass murder site'

ILTV speaks with Holocaust expert Efraim Zuroff, who has co-authored a book on the mass murder of Jews in Lithuanian during World War II

Real-life 'Pianist' family wins defamation appeal

The family of the late Jewish-Polish protagonist of the film "The Pianist" wins appeal against defamation of their father.

Polish court upholds controversial restitution law

Court in Poland rejects motion to scrap a law that critics say is preventing restitution of property that belonged to Jewish families.

Dutch magnate: Family 'heartless' in treatment of Nazi-era Jews

Dutch textile magnate says his predecessors "behaved in a heartless manner" during the Holocaust.Ho

700 march for Warsaw ghetto doctors, nurses

Marchers hang ribbons with the names of the dead to honor the medical personnel of the Warsaw ghetto.

Holocaust survivors from Florida perform in former ghetto

Musical duo of Holocaust survivors from Florida return to their native Poland to perform there for the first time.

Amsterdam rejects restitution, settles with survivors for $11M

City rejects calls to give direct restitution to Holocaust survivors taxed while held in concentration camps, pays Jewish groups $11M.

Paris Grand Synagogue slammed for hosting far-right historian

Historian justified Vichy France's collaboration with Nazi Germany, handing over of thousands of Jews for extermination.

Polish officials under fire for revisionism of Holocaust history

Jewish groups up in arms over controversial comments by leading Polish officials regarding the country's role during the Holocaust.

Alabama councilwoman threatened over Holocaust comments

Councilwoman in Birmingham says a gun-wielding Jewish man threatened to harm her for opposing city funding of a Holocaust memorial.

Pokemon Go player finds body behind Holocaust memorial

New Hampshire youth playing Pokemon Go discovers dead body in stream near Holocaust memorial.

Binyamina Rebbe laid to rest in Har Hamenuchot

The late hassidic rebbe and Holocaust survivor made all Jews feel welcome in his home.

Dutch man and daugther who hid Jews during Holocaust honored

Yad Vashem posthumously honors Jan Willem Kamphuis and his daughter Klazenia Kamphuis-Vink from Holland who hid Jews from the Nazis.

75 years after pogrom, Poland wrestles with complicity

Polish politicians and academics wrestle with legacy of complicity in Holocaust atrocities exemplified in story of Jedwabne pogrom.

After Elie Wiesel, can anyone unite American Jews?

Following Elie Wiesel's, is the American Jewish community too divided to unite under any one person’s moral voice?

Locals absent at ceremony marking Polish atrocity

Event commemorating 340 Jews burned alive by anti-Semitic Poles underlines Poland's complicated relationship with its past.

Watch: Canadian PM's tearful trip to Auschwitz memorial

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the site of the Nazi death camp on Sunday, accompanied with one of the few inmates to survive.

Oregon Jewish Museum gets permanent home

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education will have a new and permanent home next year.

Victims of Polish atrocity remembered

150 people attend commemoration on the 75th anniversary of a massacre of hundreds of Polish Jews in Jedwabne.

Hundreds pay tribute in Elie Wiesel's native Romania

Nobel laureate was instrumental in getting Romania to face up to its dark past.

7 Elie Wiesel books that show the range of his influence

World-renowned Holocaust survivor, human rights activist best known for his memoirs - but his memory lives on in dozens of other works too.

Belarusian Nobel laureate: Poles persecuted Jews in Holocaust

Svetlana Alexievich defies Polish crack-downs on suggestions that Polish people were involved in attacking Jews.

Holocaust survivors to receive increased aid from Germany

After long negotiations with German government, Claims Conference secures large increase in aid to elderly Holocaust survivors.

Poland commemorates 'bestial' massacre of Holocaust survivors

Polish president leads memorial for post-Holocaust Kielce massacre, vows to fight 'even the most minor of acts of anti-Semitism.'

In Romania, poignant memories of Holocaust survivor Wiesel

Perhaps nowhere is Elie Wiesel's passing felt more poignantly than in his country of birth.

‘Mein Kampf’ profits to aid Holocaust survivors

Publisher announces all US proceeds of Adolf Hitler’s manifesto will be donated to Holocaust survivors.

X-ray technology discovers holocaust escape tunnel

New technology allows researchers to discover tunnel dug by prisoners in an attempt to escape the Nazis.

Man posed as Auschwitz survivor; lectured in schools for years

Joseph Hirt, 91, has been doing the lecture circuit telling of his memories from the Holocaust; the problem is, he was never there.

Head of Poland’s largest party honors synagogue burning victims

Jaroslaw Kaczynski stresses dangers of anti-Semitism, important of Poland-Israel ties, at Great Synagogue of Bialystok speech.

Pennsylvania man admits he lied about being Auschwitz survivor

Joseph Hirt of Lancaster County admits he lied about being an Auschwitz survivor and apologizes.

Survivor confronts former London mayor about his Hitler claims

Holocaust survivor: 'They do it whilst there are some survivors still around. What will they do when we’re all gone?'

Drug abuse, Holocaust figure in film on notorious Dutch lawyers

Max Moszkowicz survived Auschwitz and established a line of successful Jewish lawyers - but beneath the surface lurked many demons.

Ex-SS guard, 94, convicted for complicity in Auschwitz murders

Reinhold Hanning jailed after trial in Germany; expressed regret to victims.

Jewish group outraged at plan to auction Nazi relics

Leading German Jewish group blasts planned auction of Nazi memorabilia, including Hermann Goering's underpants.

Michigan mandates Holocaust education in high schools

Michigan public schools must teach about genocide, including the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide, under a new law.