On May 9 in the Belarus city of Orsha, a gathering took place at the Jewish cemetery where Holocaust victims were buried. The local Jewish community, a member of the Association of Jewish Communities of Belarus, organized this Victory Day gathering.

Sentenced to five years in prison for his part in the killing of over 27,900 people during the Holocaust, Demjanjuk was set free because of his age; his immediate destination is not known.

The US Holocaust museum has teamed up with Internet genealogy site Ancestry.com to provide online information about those who were persecuted by the Nazis, the museum said.

One of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminals, Sandor Kepiro, 97, goes on trial in Budapest Thursday charged with the murder of 36 Jews and Serbs in Novi Sad, Serbia in 1942.

US President Barack Obama paid homage to victims to the Holocaust on Monday, saying it underscores the need for ''standing up against intolerance and injustice.''

Traffic ground to a halt across Israel and pedestrians stopped in their tracks for two minutes on Monday as the Jewish state paused to remember the horrors of the Holocaust.

Hours before the beginning of Holocaust Remembrande Day (Yom HaShoah in Hebrew), Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that the ''lessons of the Holocaust have not been learned.''

Thousands of people, among them politicians, public figures and diplomats, joined the March of the Living, a procession marking Hungary's Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Budapest on Sunday, Hungary’s news agency MTI reported

Newly revealed FBI file shows agency believed Nazi ID card purportedly showing Demjanjuk served as death camp guard was fake; Holocaust survivor appeals to court to release Demjanjuk after convicting him.

Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann wrote to West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer from Argentina saying he wanted to return, the author of a new book published in Germany this week said Tuesday.