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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 2:40 AM GMT

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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 2:08 PM GMT

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 8:32 AM GMT

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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 5:19 AM GMT

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Israel's Holocaust museum appeals for artifacts as survivors dwindle

Many survivors leave items to the museum in their wills.

13 April 2018 4:28 AM GMT

Facebook banned several Buddhist nationalists for hate messages targeting Rohingya Muslims.

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 July 2018 7:11 AM GMT

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.

5 Oct 2019 10:07 AM GMT

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.

4 Nov 2019 7:04 AM GMT

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 9:16 AM GMT

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 5:34 AM GMT

The Auschwitz museum, a Holocaust site, has become a symbol of Nazi Germanys genocide of six million European Jews, with one million killed at the camp between 1940 and 1945. (Photo | Pixabay - John Ondreasz)

New trend on TikTok with users playing Holocaust victims hurtful,...

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

27 Aug 2020 7:56 AM GMT

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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 March 2018 12:22 PM GMT