NFL player who posted quote attributed to Hitler accepts Holocaust survivor’s invitation to visit Nazi death camp, says he will ‘continue educating [himself].’
‘Seventy-five years ago today, when Soviet troops entered these gates, they had no idea what lay behind them. And since that day, the entire world has struggled with what they found inside,’ said World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder.
A photo was taken of a girl holding an Israeli flag outside of the entrance to Auschwitz. Facebook flagged it as “insensitive” but has since apologized.
A child survivor of the Holocaust explains his profound belief that God had been with him throughout his internment at the infamous Auschwitz death camp.
Denise and Micheline Lévy, 9 and 8, were captured in February 1944 and sent to Auschwitz. Their dolls were found lying in the snow and were picked up by a shopkeeper who then passed them through the generations. Now, they will be displayed in the Shoah Memorial in Paris.
Czech tourism company Balkanbus appears to be offering trips to the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp as if it were an amusement park, but many are not amused.
Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor of Auschwitz, whose classic “Night” became a landmark testament to the Nazis’ crimes and launched Wiesel’s long career as one of the world’s foremost witnesses and humanitarians, has died at age 87.
As we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials, we must ask some disturbing questions about those who were never tried for their complicity.
Over 70 years after the Holocaust, Jewish victims of that horrific tragedy are seeking justice from Hungary, which was an active participant in the mass murder of it Jewish population.
Newly-appointed Greek government Minister Dimitris Kammenos resigned only hours into the job over anti-Semitic and racist remarks he made on social media.
For seven decades, the remains of several Holocaust victims were kept in jars and test tubes locked up in a French medical school. On Sunday, they were buried at last.
Museum staff at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp in Poland placed mist showers at the entrance in an attempt to alleviate visitors' discomfort from the summer heat, but their goodwill was perceived by some as offensive.
94-year-old former SS sergeant Oskar Groening, who served at the Auschwitz death camp, was convicted Wednesday on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder and given a four-year sentence.
A photo was taken of a girl holding an Israeli flag outside of the entrance to Auschwitz. Facebook flagged it as "insensitive" but has since apologized.
As the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, 42% of Germans have had enough of feeling responsible for the Holocaust. This, as anti-Semitism in Germany is on the rise.
Speaking at an event on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the multiple award-winning director stressed the importance of Holocaust education and awareness.