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Holocaust January 27, 2019

Auschwitz historians painstakingly work to preserve personal belongings of the victims to keep 'memory of their owners alive'

Survivors and dignitaries are assembling Sunday at Auschwitz-Birkenau to commemorate the 74th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp where more than 1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered.

RELIGION January 25, 2019

Holocaust Remembrance Day: From the Babel to Sinai

This week, the United Nations commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz where, in our time, millions of innocent people were gassed in the name of glorifying Hitler’s Third Reich.

Holocaust January 11, 2019

Former Nazi concentration camp guard deported from US dies in Germany

German media report that Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard who spent decades leading an unassuming life in New York City until his past was revealed, has died.

Holocaust January 10, 2019

Six unidentified Holocaust victims to be interred at UK Jewish cemetery

The remains of six unidentified Holocaust victims will soon have a resting place more than 20 years after they were discovered by a survivor at the Auschwitz death camp.

Holocaust December 21, 2018

German court decides against trying alleged Nazi camp guard

A German court has declined to put on trial a 95-year-old man alleged to have served as a guard at the Nazi's Mauthausen concentration camp, saying Friday that it doesn't see enough evidence to support charges of accessory to murder.

Holocaust December 4, 2018

Model defends taking Holocaust memorial selfie after receiving backlash

British model Rhian Sugden defended herself on Tuesday after she received backlash for snapping a selfie at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, Germany, during her vacation.

Holocaust August 21, 2018

Nazi labor camp guard caught by ICE, deported to Germany, completing 'difficult task,' Grenell says

The last known Nazi collaborator living in the United States -- a 95-year-old former camp guard who played an "indispensable role" in the murders of thousands of Jews -- was deported to Germany from his New York City home early Tuesday morning, completing what the U.S. ambassador to Germany called a "difficult task."

Holocaust January 27, 2018

Trump says US 'indebted' to Holocaust survivors as world marks anniversary of liberation

The world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday as elderly survivors gathered at the former Auschwitz death camp and political leaders warned that the Nazi genocide must continue to serve as a warning.

Holocaust October 11, 2017

Buried letter recounts Auschwitz prisoner's job of burning bodies of fellow Jews in death camp

In a letter he buried in Auschwitz, a Jewish man said he contemplating ending his life many times after being forced to remove the bodies of fellow prisoners from the gas chambers at the death camp.