The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has for the first time awarded Germany full marks in its annual ''report card'' on investigation and prosecution of war criminals, it said on Thursday.
An event commemorating the Holocaust will be organized on January 25 in Yehudi Menuhinh Hall of the European Parliament in Brussels in the presence of the EU legislative body’s Polish President, Jerzy Buzek.
German intelligence knew Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was hiding out in Argentina eight years before Israeli agents kidnapped him in 1960, the Bild daily cited newly released documents as saying.
Over 220 bodies discovered in hospital cemetery suspected to have been buried between 1942 and 1945 as victims of a Nazi-era purge of 'unworthy' patients.
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S.Lauder has called on US courts and authorities to quickly pave the way for the extradition of alleged Nazi war criminal Pete Egner, 88, to Serbia, where he is to stand trial on charges of genocide.
In the village of Oktyabrskoye, located near the city of Kerch (in Ukraine’s Crimea), a memorial service took place, dedicated to the 69th anniversary of the genocide of Jews in what was then Nazi-occupied Kerch. The service took place on November 29.
