Panel Issues Romania Holocaust Report
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An international panel headed by Nobel-prize winner Elie Wiesel released a report Thursday detailing the responsibility of Romania's pro-Nazi authorities in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews and Gypsies during World War II.
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It could be two more years before Belgium s Parliament starts assessing the role some officials played in the Holocaust, but the process of examining the country s responsibility in the wartime deportation of ...
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"The authorities were merciless. They took the Roma from their homes, from the towns and army and sent them far away, to obtain a pure nation"  Romania's president apologized for the deportation of thousands of Gypsies to Nazi death camps during World War II, the first time a government official has done so publicly. via Montereyherald.com
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electoral committee spokesman, told reporters on Monday. The committee counted 92 percent of all votes cast. hung lower house just as Romania faces tough reforms to realise its aim to join the bloc in 2007.
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BUCHAREST -- President Ion Iliescu yesterday admitted Romania's complicity in the Holocaust, ending decades of denial that hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed in the country when it was an ally of Nazi Germany.
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A United Nations anti-racism panel has questioned Israel's policy on preserving holy sites, asking the country to explain whether it protects places considered sacred to religions other than Judaism.
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A woman who was raped and beaten near a Gypsy camp allegedly by a Romanian died Thursday night, state radio reported. The latest attack blamed on a foreigner has prompted the government to give authorities the power to expel EU immigrants deemed dangerous.
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Iran staged a conference on Monday to debate the Holocaust and question whether Nazi Germany used gas chambers, prompting charges it was encouraging the denial of the killing of 6 million Jews during World War Two.
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Iran, whose president has described the Holocaust as a "myth," said Tuesday it will hold a conference to discuss the evidence of the World War II genocide.
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An Israeli organization charged with locating the property of victims of the Holocaust has put its findings on the Internet.
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A gathering of Holocaust deniers in Iran touched off a firestorm of indignation Tuesday across Europe, where many countries have made it a crime to publicly disavow the Nazis' systematic extermination of 6 ...Comment
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In Internet chat rooms, TV talks shows and cafe conversations, the topic is on everybody's lips: The opening of the files of Romania's dreaded secret police that have been buried since the fall of communism 17 years ago.
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Romania observed its first national day to honor victims of the Holocaust on Tuesday, more than 60 years after the start of deportations of its Jews to death camps.
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New papers cast doubt on Vatican claims about when it learned of the atrocities at Auschwitz.
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Europe's Roma minority appealed to the United Nations on Wednesday to be included in annual Holocaust commemorations as recognized victims of Nazi Germany who still suffer discrimination across the continent.
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The Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem has assembled the names and biographies of Jewish victims of the Holocaust, and it will make the information available online.
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Andras Suto, a writer and human rights advocate for his fellow ethnic Hungarians in Romania who was persecuted by Nicolae Ceausescu's regime, has died.Comment