Holocaust Memorial to Open in Oregon
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For years, Chella Kryszek had nightmares about the dark, crowded cattle cars that shuttled her from concentration camp to concentration camp as a Dutch Jew during the Holocaust.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will visit the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in Poland to mark the 60th anniversary of its liberation during World War II.
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Two more countries have endorsed opening a Nazi war archive to Holocaust museums, bringing the documents locked away for more than half a century a step closer to release, Red Cross officials said Tuesday.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Miles Lerman, who fought against the Nazis in Poland and later helped found the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has died. He was 88.
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Survivors of the Holocaust and world leaders, among them Swiss president Samuel Schmid, have remembered the horrors of the concentration camp.
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Those who incite hatred and mass  murder are not always extremists but men of culture,  Secretary-General Kofi Annan told world leaders in opening the  first-ever General Assembly commemoration of the World War II  Holocaust.
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Jewish community leaders in southern Ukraine asked Thursday for control over the land where a mass grave believed to contain thousands of Holocaust victims was found.
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Germany inaugurates a Holocaust museum at Bergen-Belsen, the Nazi camp where Anne Frank died.
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Survivors and relatives of the victims of the Paddington rail crash are to attend a memorial on Tuesday.
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A memorial marking the slaughter of Chinese citizens of Nanjing by Japanese troops will soon include exhibits showing visits by Japanese politicians to a Tokyo shrine that honors war dead, state media reported Wednesday.
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Those who incite hatred and mass murder are not always extremists but men of culture, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told world leaders in opening the first-ever General Assembly commemoration of the World War II Holocaust.
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German-born Pope Benedict XVI walked alone under the infamous &amp;quot;Arbeit Macht Frei&amp;quot; gate at the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau as he began a poignant visit to the site where Hitler&#039;s Germany killed 1.1 million people in World War II.
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A ceremony is held in Berlin to mark the laying of the last of several thousand slabs as part of a memorial to Holocaust victims.
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Paris' new memorial to the Holocaust was dedicated Tuesday, with the French president bowing before the wall inscribed with the names of 76,000 Jews sent to Nazi death camps from France.
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Israel's leading museum opened an exhibition on Monday of art that was looted by the Nazis in France and has never been reclaimed by its owners, many of whom were Jewish collectors killed in the Holocaust.
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"It's closer in many ways to theater than it is to a didactic display based on a collection"  An empty lawn in the heart of what was once the Warsaw Ghetto will soon become a place not only of mourning, but of celebrating the Jewish life that flourished in Poland before it was destroyed in the Holocaust.Jewish leaders and President Lech Kaczynski will break ground Tuesday for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. It sits on a highly charged site _ next to the city's monument to the Jews who resisted the Nazis during the 1943 ghetto uprising, and just down the street from the rail siding where many were deported to their deaths. Read more
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Germany&#39;s biggest synagogue, which survived the horrors of the Nazi holocaust and the oppression of communist rule, reopened on Friday as a symbol of the rebirth of the Jewish community.