Holocaust

Holocaust Memorial Day shouldn’t be about ‘heroes’ and ‘villains’ – unsung, ordinary people made the biggest difference

The theme for the 2024 Holocaust Memorial Day, which takes place on January 27, is the “fragility of freedom”. This year is an especially poignant one, marking 80 years since…

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Pope condemns Holocaust denial

VATICAN CITY, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned Holocaust denial, as Australia came under pressure to refuse a visa to American rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye…

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UPDATED: Germany and Israel condemn Palestinian president’s Holocaust remarks

BERLIN/JERUSALEM, Aug 17 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz voiced disgust on Wednesday at remarks by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that the German leader said diminished the importance of the…

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U.N. defines Holocaust denial

The United Nations General Assembly agreed on a definition of denial of the Holocaust, when the Nazis killed 6 million Jews during World War Two, and urged social media companies…

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Commemorating 80 years after the beginning of the Holocaust deportations

Photo German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) and his wife Elke Buedenbender stand in front of wreaths during a commemoration ceremony at the 'Gleis 17' (lit.: Track 17) memorial site in…

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Olympics-Opening ceremony director fired over Holocaust joke on Games eve

TOKYO, July 22 (Reuters) - On the eve of the Tokyo Games, organisers fired the director of the opening ceremony over a joke he made about the Holocaust, while media…

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Pope pays surprise visit to home of elderly Holocaust survivor

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis paid a surprise visit on Saturday to the home of Edith Bruck, a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor and author, and paid homage to all those…

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Auschwitz survivors mark anniversary virtually amid pandemic fears

OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) - Marian Turski, a 94-year-old survivor of the Auschwitz death camp, will mark the 76th anniversary of its liberation by Soviet troops on Wednesday only virtually, aware…

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Facebook to ban content that denies or distorts the Holocaust

Facebook Inc said on Monday it was updating its hate speech policy to ban any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust. The move comes two years after Facebook Chief…

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Commemoration of Holocaust victims in Budapest

Hungarian Minister of Justice Judit Varga pays tribute to the victims as she stands next to cast iron shoes, a memorial of Holocaust victims on the bank of River Danube,…

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75 years since liberation of the Buchenwald death camp

In the wake of the coronavirus lock down, authorities in the state of Thuringia cancelled commemoration events marking the the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald death camp.…

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British Government to provide £1 million funding to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation

A £1 million donation to help preserve the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and ensure the lessons of Auschwitz live on for generations to come was announced by the British government. The…

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Wreath laying ceremony on the 75th anniversary of the liberation Auschwitz-Birkenau

Former prisoners, Polish President Andrzej Duda Monday morning attended a ceremony at the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz II-Birkenau during to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of…

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In first, Dutch prime minister apologizes for country’s role in Holocaust

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologized for how his kingdom’s wartime government failed its Jews, a first by a sitting prime minister. Rutte, on Sunday during a Holocaust commemoration,…

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Photo Story: The Fifth World Holocaust Forum 2020 in Jerusalem

The ceremony of the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, Israel, 23 January 2020. The event marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation…

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Al Jazeera suspends two journalists over video downplaying Holocaust

Al Jazeera Media Network has suspended two journalists over a video that downplayed and misrepresented the Holocaust. The video, published on Al Jazeera's online Arabic news platform, AJ+, "contravened its…

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Remains of female political prisoners executed by NAZIs and used for medical research buried

The remains of more than 300 female political prisoners who were executed by the Nazis and used for medical research were buried in a Berlin cemetery on Monday. In the…

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Polish Prime Minister cancels visit to Israel following Netanyahu’s comments

Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki has cancelled a trip to Israel following comments on the Holocaust by Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu was quoted in Israeli media as saying "Poles co-operated…

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Poland summoned Israel’s ambassador over Netanyahu’s comments on Polish ‘apparent’ complicity in Nazi Holocaust

Poland summoned Israel’s ambassador on Friday and threatened to scupper a Jerusalem diplomatic summit after reported comments in which Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to accuse the Polish nation of complicity in…

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Memorial held at Auschwitz on Holocaust Remembrance Day

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, dozens of former prisoners, priests and staff of the Auschwitz Memorial laid wreaths at the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp to commemorate the…

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L-Olokawst jista jerġa jseħħ – “The Holocaust can happen again” – Torca

Illum qed infakkru l-olokawst. Il-massakru li sar minn Nażisti li wasslu biex eluf kbar ta’ Lhud spiċċaw fil-kampjijiet tal-konċentrament, u finalment inqatlu. Massakru li jkexkxek u jdaħħlet f’qoxortok. Biżżejjed tmur…

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On this day, 1931 37.2% of Germans voted for Hitler’s NSDAP

On this day, in 1932, the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party garnered 37.2% of the popular vote in the second of three…

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Saturday Morning Briefing

Good morning, From Malta to Kazakistan via Italy, to the UK and Brussels, from Libya to Singapore and our obvious stop in the US our morning briefing presents you how…

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Zuckerberg says that facebook should not filter Holocaust denying posts

Facebook found itself embroiled a new in controversy Thursday after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg argued the leading social network should not filter out posts denying the Holocaust. The comments by…

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Agreement between Israeli and Polish Government about Poland’s role in the Holocaust criticised by Holocaust memorial centre

The Times of Israel: The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center on Thursday slammed an agreement between the governments of Israel and Poland regarding the latter’s record during the Holocaust, saying it…

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