Germany's president Friday marked 70 years since a meeting that unleashed the Nazis' mass extermination of Jews, pledging to do everything to thwart ''murderous hatred'' of foreigners in the country.
Two Dutch journalists accused of secretly filming an interview with a 90-year-old former SS assassin will stand trial next month on charges of breaching German privacy laws, a court said.
Yad Vashem in Jerusalem will open a new exhibition, ''Last Portrait: Painting for Posterity,'' on January 23 to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 January).
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates every year the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp (27 January 1945), will be marked next Tuesday in the European Parliament in Brussels during a special event.
Historians have cheered news that Adolf Hitler's ''Mein Kampf'' will be reprinted in Germany for the first time since the Nazi dictator's fall in 1945, just as Holocaust survivors hit out at the move.
The Auschwitz Museum on Monday filed a criminal complaint with Polish prosecutors on the heels of media reports that rare documents on the former Nazi German death camp were smuggled out of Poland.
The Soviet secret police and its Russian successor actively blocked a probe into the fate of Swedish Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg and Sweden was informed, researchers say, citing a recently unearthed document.
German «Die Welt» published copies of 15 pages of the minutes of a secret meeting of German leadership of January 20,1942 on the “final decision of the Jewish question” (the so-called Wansee conference).
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial and Research Institute, has opened an investigation into revoking the title of ''Righteous Among the Nations'' from a Belgian official credited with saving hundreds of lives during the Holocaust.
