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In 1939, 5-year-old Erna Blitzer left France with her parents and older sister for a vacation to visit relatives in Poland. They never made it home. Complete Story...
Tears welling in his eyes, an elderly Holocaust survivor on Thursday embraced the son of the Albanian man who saved him from the Nazi death camps, highlighting the little-known role played by European Muslims in helping Jews during World War II.
A Dutch couple posthumously received the highest honor for non-Jews from Israel's Holocaust center Thursday for their bravery in sheltering a Jewish family from the Nazis during World War II.
Romania's president apologized for the deportation of thousands of Gypsies to Nazi death camps during World War II, the first time a government official has done so publicly.
Poland's president on Wednesday honored more than 50 people who saved Jews in Poland during the Nazi Holocaust, including the German officer who helped Wladyslaw Szpilman, the musician whose story was the basis of the film "The Pianist."
A Briton who helped save hundreds of Jewish children from being sent to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps was awarded the Czech Republic's highest military decoration Tuesday.
Thousands of trees line Yad Vashem's Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations, honoring the people who saved Jews during World War II. On Monday, Israel's official Holocaust memorial honored its first "righteous tree," a hollow 33-foot high birch that hid Jakob Silberstein as he escaped Auschwitz.
A right-wing Austrian author convicted of neo-Nazi activities was extradited from Spain on Thursday and will face charges that he denied the existence of the Holocaust and claimed the Nazis never used gas chambers.
The U.S. diplomat seeking compensation and restitution for Holocaust survivors and descendants of victims said Wednesday that cash payments have reached $8 billion, and negotiations are under way for more.
Who is to blame for the killing of 1.4 million Jews in Nazi-occupied Ukraine? And what can be done now to dispel age-old anti-Semitism in Ukraine, honor Jewish dead and move on?
It is Iran's version of "Schindler's List," a miniseries that tells the tale of an Iranian diplomat in Paris who helps Jews escape the Holocaust — and viewers across the country are riveted.
Looking back at the first weeks after World War II, a French lieutenant named Henri Francois-Poncet despaired at ever fulfilling his mission to establish the fate of French inmates of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
On a sunny April morning in 1944, 6-year-old Alodia Witaszek was combed and scrubbed, sitting in the children's home that had primed her for membership in Hitler's master race.
Liviu Librescu survived the Nazi Holocaust. He died trying to keep a gunman from shooting his students in a killing spree at Virginia Tech — a heroic feat later recounted in e-mails from students to his wife.
The Vatican and Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial got into a public spat Thursday over the wartime conduct of Pope Pius XII during the Nazi genocide, threatening to upset fragile relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the Jewish state.
German prosecutors on Tuesday charged the former lawyer for a far-right activist with incitement, accusing her of denying the Holocaust and ending one of her legal filings with "Heil Hitler."
A waltz. A tango. A piece of jazz. But they weren't composed in Vienna, Buenos Aires or New Orleans. Scribbled on diaries, loose pages or even toilet paper, these are the notes left behind by people who lived and died in the prisons and concentration camps of World War II.
In a Dec. 12 story about an Iranian-sponsored conference on the Holocaust, The Associated Press erroneously attributed a claim that Zionists have exaggerated the number of Jews killed by the Nazis.
The incoming head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and other U.S lawmakers are pressing governments to speed up ratification of an agreement that will open up access to millions of documents from the Nazi era in Germany.
Within weeks of Hitler's 1933 rise to power, the iron gates slammed shut on inmates of the first Nazi concentration camps. It was the start of an unparalleled experiment in persecution and genocide that expanded over the next 12 years into a pyramid of ghettos, Gestapo prisons, slave labor camps and, ultimately, extermination factories.
British author David Irving, who was ordered released from jail where he was serving a three-year sentence for denying the Holocaust, was to return to England on Thursday, his lawyer's office said.
The path to uncovering the life and death of Cornelis Marinus Brouwenstijn begins with a plain manila envelope containing a purse, an ID booklet, a cracked leather wallet, a slew of family snapshots, and a typewritten risque joke about women in the army.
A gathering of Holocaust deniers in Iran touched off a firestorm of indignation Tuesday across Europe, where many countries have made it a crime to publicly disavow the Nazis' systematic extermination of 6 million Jews.
Iran's hard-line president said Tuesday that Israel will one day be "wiped out" as the Soviet Union was, drawing applause from participants in a conference casting doubt on the Holocaust.
Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday he found it "unbelievable" and "shocking" that Iran hosted a conference examining whether the Holocaust took place, a meeting Israel's prime minister has condemned as a "sick phenomenon."
Of course, this is not the case. Many Jews, like their non-Jewish counterparts, have publicly spoken out against the criminal acts committed by Israel.
The Cyber Library, Cybrary, of the Holocaust at remember.org
Former Labor leader Mark Latham describes current Australian (Oz) Federal election campaign as a greedy "Seinfeld election about nothing". Bush-ite media and politicians IGNORE US Asian Holocaust (8 million dead).
German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday said she feels a moral duty to protect Israel and will stand firm in the face of Iran's nuclear ambitions and its threats to wipe the Jewish state off the map.
The Other November 9 Fueled by years of the most grotesque Jew-hatred, emboldened by the weakness of the policy of Appeasement (which saw the Western Powers give Hitler Austria and then half a year later Czechoslovakia, just weeks earlier), frenzied mobs burned more than 250 syn …
It took two decades and a second cornerstone laying ceremony, but on Friday, construction at the 'Topography of Terror' got underway. The site is to document the headquarters of the SS and the Gestapo.
Australia is in the middle of a Federal Election campaign but the Australia-complicit Bush Iraqi Genocide has been remorselessly IGNORED by Bush-ite Australian Mainstream media, the ABC and politicians.
What a shocking and inauspicious end to a survivor from the hell of the holocaust...
When a US Congressional committee approved a resolution recognizing the World War I-era massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as genocide, Turkey's reaction was swift and harsh: Blame the Jews.
On August 22, 1939, just days before the outbreak of World War II, Adolf Hitler met with his army generals.
Australia is currently involved in Holocaust Commission, Holocaust Denial, Genocide Commission and Genocide Denial in relation to Indigenous Australians, Iraqis and Afghans on top of an awful historical racist record.
In his award-winning political blog, hugahoodie.co.uk, my son Jonathan (a final year student at Oxford) is throwing his weight behind a proposal by the Oxford Union (the University's famous debating society) to have David Irving, writer on historical topics who has been jailed in …
Since President Bush and congressional leaders meet with an endless parade of world leaders and few such encounters are terribly important, it would be natural to put this week's meeting with His Holiness The Dalai Lama in that same category. But it's not.
Chief Rabbi of the Orthodox Jewish Community in Austria, Moishe Arye Friedman, believes that the "Zionist regime is using the Holocaust concept as a tool and weapon to silence people."
PARIS: His subjects were mostly children and teenagers at the time, terrified witnesses to mass slaughter.
His subjects were mostly children and teenagers at the time, terrified witnesses to mass slaughter.
The Sunnis of Saudi Arabia and their allies - including Jordan - have been equipping and training Sunni extremists in Iraq for some time now.
Dear Ambassador Khan, We, the undersigned human rights groups and non-governmental organizations, write to express our grave concern over certain remarks that you delivered before the UN Human Rights Council this past Tuesday, 25 September 2007, which offend Holocaust survivors …
Federal authorities have begun deportation proceedings against an 85-year-old suburban Atlanta man who they say served as a Nazi guard and trained and handled attack dogs at the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps.
Gandhi's birth anniversary on October 2 provides a fitting occasion to launch a global satyagraha [...] against imperialism.
The excess deaths in the Bush War on Terror now total 5.7 MILLION, similar to the death toll in the Nazi-imposed Jewish Holocaust (5-6 MILLION). TRIALS are needed for the UK-US Holocaust Committers and Holocaust Deniers.
At first glance, the photographs seem innocuous enough. Men and women in uniform lie back in deckchairs, listen to accordion music, decorate a Christmas tree.
Read what Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ACTUALLY said and ACTUALLY asserts he believes rather than the LIES of his detractors - he DOES believe in the Holocaust, does NOT want nuclear weapons etc etc.
clipped from: ca.today.reuters.com Iranian president spars with academics in NY
Nathan Gasch and Martin Hartmann lived next door for years in a quiet retirement community east of Phoenix. Though both grew up in Europe and lived through World War II, Gasch never spoke to Hartmann about the past.
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