Holocaust memorial opens in Paris
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A wall with the names of 76,000 Jews deported from France to Nazi death camps is unveiled in Paris.
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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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Thousands of people lined the streets of Paris Wednesday to watch a reenactment of the French and US liberation of the city from Nazi occupation 60 years ago.
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Fire swept through a Jewish community center in eastern Paris in the early morning hours today after arsonists broke into the building and scrawled swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans inside.
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Large crowds have lined Paris streets to witness military columns roll through marking the 60th anniversary of the cityâs liberation from German occupation.
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An exhibition about the role of German railways during the Holocaust and the 3 million European Jews it transported to death camps opened at Deutsche Bahn's headquarters in Berlin on Wednesday.
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Ceremonies are held across Europe to mark 60 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.
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The infamous "Work makes you free" gate at Auschwitz. KRAKOW, Poland (CNN) -- Leaders from 30 countries gather Thursday to remember the victims of the Holocaust on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the ...
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Germany&#39;s biggest synagogue reopened Friday after a major restoration, in a defiant symbol of the rebirth of Jewish life in the city where the Nazis planned the Holocaust.
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Arsonists set fire to a Jewish soup kitchen in central Paris early on Sunday morning and daubed Nazi symbols on the building, police said, in the latest anti-Semitic act in France.
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WARSAW, Poland  - Poland's prime minister marked the 65th anniversary of the start of the Second World War on Wednesday, unveiling a new memorial on the spot where a German warship fired the opening shots at a Polish munitions depot, sparking nearly six years of bloody conflict.
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PARIS Aug. 25, 2004 - With French and American flags, vintage military vehicles and heartfelt memories, Paris on Wednesday marked the 60th anniversary of its liberation from the occupying Nazis the day the
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Jewish leaders are to join Polish dignitaries for the start of work on a museum in the former Warsaw Ghetto.
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Holocaust survivors and their families gathered at one of Europe&#39;s largest Jewish cemeteries Sunday to remember more than 200,000 Jews from this city killed by the Nazis
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Fire swept through a Jewish community center in eastern Paris in the early morning hours on Sunday after arsonists broke into the building and scrawled swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans inside.
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With French and American flags, vintage military vehicles and heartfelt memories, Paris on Wednesday marked the 60th anniversary of its liberation from the occupying Nazis &#151; the day the French capital recovered its honor after four years of hardship and shame.
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Israel's central Holocaust memorial  said on Tuesday over 2,000 people in Iran and thousands of  other people, including Iranians, had visited its new Farsi Web  site documenting the mass murder of 6 million Jews.