Poland says U.N. to rename Auschwitz death camp
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The United Nations has accepted Poland's request to rename the Auschwitz death camp on its list of World Heritage sites to make clear it was run by Germans not Poles, the Polish government announced on Wednesday.
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Poland will hand over another part of the zone it administers in Iraq under a planned reduction of its forces next year, Defence Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski said in an interview published Friday.
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KRAKOW, Poland  - Ukrainian President Viktor  Yushchenko, who visited Auschwitz on Thursday, recalled his  father's ordeal in the death camp he described as a "sacred  place" for him and his family.
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Snowflakes swirled around the crematoriums and barbed wire of Auschwitz, and a shrill train whistle pierced the silence as frail survivors and humbled world leaders remembered the victims of the Holocaust on Thursday, the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp.
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The UN Secretary General opens a special session on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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Israel marks the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi's Auschwitz death camp in a low-key way.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN General Assembly commemorated the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps with a special session yesterday, and survivor Elie Wiesel and world leaders confronted a question that has long haunted the United Nations: whether the world body has the will to stop genocide.
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With calls of "never again," the U.N. General Assembly commemorated the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps with a special session Monday, a stark change for a body that has been reluctant to address the extermination of the Jews during World War II.
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If the world had listened to the horrors of the Nazi death camps, perhaps genocide in Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda could have been avoided, speakers told the first-ever U.N. General Assembly session on the Holocaust of World War II.
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Poland's president said Wednesday he will attend the commemorations of the end of World War II in May in Moscow, but said the notorious 1939 pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union should be condemned at ...
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The International Auschwitz Council agreed Tuesday to modernize a 51-year-old exhibition at the site of the Nazi death camp and build walls to prevent the ruins of gas chambers from sinking into the ground.
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Two days before the world remembers the  liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp, German and French  leaders uttered vows on Tuesday of "never again" but groups in  Russia and Britain kept controversy alive.
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Memorial ... visitors walk through the gates at Auschwitz. EUROPE united in collective sorrow and shame at yesterday's commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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World leaders gathering in Poland to mark 60 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp.
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Pope Benedict XVI visited the Auschwitz concentration camp as &quot;a son of the German people&quot; Sunday and asked God why he remained silent during the &quot;unprecedented mass crimes&quot; of the Holocaust.
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The command of the Polish-led multinational force in Iraq will move out of a camp that includes ancient Babylonian archaeological sites by year's end, Poland's defense minister said Sunday during a surprise ...
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OSWIECIM, Poland  - World leaders and survivors  stopped to remember the horror of the Holocaust on Thursday at  a snow-swept ceremony in Auschwitz-Birkenau on the 60th  anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp.