Holocaust

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New trend on TikTok with users playing Holocaust victims hurtful, Auschwitz museum says

Some videos are dangerously close or already beyond the border of trivialisation of history, the Auschwitz Memorial said on Twitter.

27 Aug 2020 1:26 PM

Sarah and Yossi brought their children and grandchildren to meet their saviour. (Photo: AFP)

Family saved from Holocaust meet their saviour 75 years later

The Greek woman who hid a Jewish family from the Nazis during the Holocaust, met up with the survivors.

04 Nov 2019 12:34 PM

These elements will show part of that terrible story that was the Nazi genocide,” Marcelo Mindlin, president of the museum in the capital Buenos Aires. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

WWII relics to go on display in Holocaust Museum in Argentina

Nazi relics from secret hoard unveiled at Argentina's Holocaust Museum.

05 Oct 2019 3:37 PM

Built in stunning Moorish Revival style in 1873, the Rumbach will be re-established for religious observance and also act as a cultural center with concerts and exhibitions. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Famous Budapest synagogue to revive Jewish culture

Historic Budapest synagogue to reopen amid Jewish cultural revival.

20 Aug 2019 11:04 AM

The recollections of the Dallas resident who as a Jew in Poland survived the Warsaw Ghetto and Nazi concentration camps are now being preserved in a way that will allow generations to come to ask his image questions.

Technology brings images of Holocaust survivors to life

The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center has featured the survivors’ images in a special theatre.

14 Jan 2019 2:46 PM

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

Israel crowns 93-year-old as 'Miss Holocaust Survivor'

Some commentators and survivors worry that the event cheapens the memory of the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis.

15 Oct 2018 10:49 AM

Facebook posts denying the Holocaust took place would not be removed automatically.

Facebook will remove rumours instigating violence

Facebook has struggled over the past year to tamp down the global spread of rumours and political misinformation.

20 Jul 2018 12:41 PM

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, left, meets Holocaust survivor Gena Turgel during a service to remember victims of the Holocaust in Westminster Central Hall in London on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. (Photo: AP)

Holocaust survivor Gena Turgel, consoler of Anne Frank, dies

It was in a hospital at Bergen-Belsen that Turgel cared for Anne Frank as the teenager was dying of typhus.

10 Jun 2018 10:48 AM

Israel's Holocaust museum appeals for artifacts as survivors dwindle

Many survivors leave items to the museum in their wills.

13 Apr 2018 9:58 AM

German doctor warns physicians: Never again partake in atrocities

German medical doctors used radiation to forcibly sterilize 7,200 disabled women in the mid-1930s.

14 Mar 2018 5:52 PM

He said he was morally guilty for what happened at the concentration camp (Photo: AFP)

The 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' dies aged 96 before starting his prison sentence

He gained attention in 2005 as he described in job in interviews for proving to Holocaust deniers that the killings did take place.

13 Mar 2018 6:10 PM

The cache, with documents dating back to the mid-18th century, includes religious texts, Yiddish literature and poetry, testimonies about pogroms as well as autobiographies and photographs. (Photo: AFP)

Holocaust’s well-kept secret: Trove of Jewish documents revealed after years

The documents were discovered earlier in 2017 during a cleanout of the church that was used as a book repository during Soviet times.

22 Dec 2017 4:38 PM

Holocaust survivor reunites with newly discovered nephew

The rate of reunions has trickled significantly in recent years as elderly survivors have passed away.

20 Nov 2017 7:38 PM

The exhibit features a sure-footed Hitler standing in front of a huge photo of the gates of Auschwitz. (Photo: AFP)

Indonesian museum removes Nazi-themed exhibit after outrage

In January, a controversial Nazi-themed cafe in the western Javanese city of Bandung closed.

11 Nov 2017 2:02 PM

Documents recently rediscovered in Lithuania are displayed at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. These documents along with more than 170,000 other pages are part of a recently discovered trove of Jewish materials from Lithuania thought to have been destroyed during the Holocaust. (Photo: AP)

Papers thought lost in Holocaust go on display in US

A librarian in Lithuania hid the documents in a church basement to protect them from the Nazis during World War II.

25 Oct 2017 8:10 AM

Those born in occupied countries had an eight percent increased risk of developing any cancer (Photo: AFP)

Holocaust survivors may face an increased risk of cancer

Cancer was diagnosed in 22 percent of those who were granted compensation for suffering persecution during the war.

11 Jul 2017 9:20 PM

Austria’s chancellor Christian Kern lays a wreath during remembrance day ceremony at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on Monday. (Photo: AP)

Sirens, silence as Israel remembers Holocaust

Drivers exited their cars and buses ground to a halt, while students at schools marked the two minutes of silence.

25 Apr 2017 2:52 AM

Jessica Chastain in 'The Zookeeper's Wife.'

Jessica Chaistain's film on couple who saved Jews to premiere in Poland

Chastain, along with actor Daniel Bruhl, director Niki Caro and others, will attend a gala screening on Tuesday.

07 Mar 2017 5:58 PM

Heitfeld gives company to Stern, whose wife of more than 70 years was recently admitted to nursing home because of her worsening dementia. (Photo: Videograb)

95-year-old Holocaust survivor under same roof as Nazi descendant

Stern said sharing his house, with a kin of the very people who forced him from his childhood home, felt like ‘an act of justice.’

03 Mar 2017 6:53 PM

Stop selling literature that denies Holocaust: Israel to Amazon

Yad Vashem's director of libraries, Robert Rozett has offered his assistance to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to ‘curb the spread of hatred’.

26 Feb 2017 8:34 PM

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