Comments by Swiss President Ueli Maurer in an address to mark International Holocaust Memorial Day have evoked outcry from the country’s Jewish community, after the leader failed to address the wartime government’s complicity in rejecting refugees seeking escape from Nazi persecution.
A new exhibition displaying the nationwide process of collection, research, registration and digitization to rescue personal Holocaust-related items opened Sunday at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.
Germany has an “everlasting responsibility for the crimes of National Socialism, for the victims of World War II and, above all, for the Holocaust,” Merkel declared in a video message Saturday.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton paid tribute to the survivors of the Holocaust ''who remind us of this tragedy that we must never forget,'' in a statement issued Sunday on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
European Parliament President, Martin Schulz, has decided to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Day as part of the EU institution’s official ceremonies.
The site of former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau recorded its highest number of visitors in its 65-year history last year, attracting 1.43 million global visitors.
The International Institute for Holocaust Research of Yad Vashem awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research to Dr. Christoph Dieckmann, of Keele University, in the UK, for his 2-volume book ''Deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Litauen 1941-1944'' (German Occupation Policy in Lithuania 1941-1944).
British charity Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) conducted an outreach programme in Gibraltar last week as part of its ongoing teacher training programmes to better equip educators with the skills to deliver Holocaust educational programmes in their schools.
Lithuanian Jews who survived the Nazi Holocaust and Soviet terror during World War II will receive symbolic compensation from the Baltic state next year, a Jewish group leader said Wednesday.
