A Hamas official has criticised a publicised visit to Auschwitz death camp by a Palestinian Authority (PA) adviser for perpetuating the “big lie” of the Holocaust.
Sweden on Saturday celebrates 100 years since the birth of diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust before vanishing into Soviet custody.
Top Nazi war crimes suspect Laszlo Csatary, accused of overseeing the deportation of thousands of Jews to their deaths during World War II, denied all allegations against him at a first hearing before prosecutors in Hungary on Tuesday, his lawyer said.
A high-ranking Palestinian official visited the Auschwitz former Nazi death camp on Friday, the first visit of its kind to the site that symbolises the Holocaust.
Slovakia's Jewish community said Wednesday it wanted alleged Nazi-era war criminal Laszlo Csatary, detained last week in neighbouring Hungary, to stand trial on Slovak soil for alleged crimes he committed against Jews in a former Hungarian province.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his concern Tuesday at the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Hungary at a meeting in Jerusalem with the Hungarian president Janos Ader, according to statement from his office.
The 70th anniversary of the mass deportation of Jews from France in WWII was commemorated on Monday, as participants paid tribute to the some 13,000 Jews who were sent to death camps from Nazi-occupied France on July 16 and 17, 1942.
The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Centre confirmed Sunday that Laszlo Csatary, accused of complicity in the killings of 15,700 Jews, had been tracked down to the Hungarian capital.
