UN Commemorates Nazi Death Camp Liberation
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The U.N. General Assembly commemorated the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps with a special session Monday, 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 future genocide.
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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 prevented, speakers told the first-ever U.N. General Assembly session on the Holocaust.
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The 192-nation General Assembly  paid tribute on Friday to Kurt Waldheim, the fourth U.N.  secretary-general, without mentioning his tarnished legacy as  an officer in Nazi Germany&#39;s army in the Balkans.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (IPS) - The importance of this week's recognition by  the United Nations of the Nazi Holocaust lies as much in its  relevance to today's international realities as it does to  the historical significance of the liberation of the Auschwitz  death camp by Soviet forces 60 years ago Thursday.
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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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Auschwitz: Some of the last remaining survivors of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in southern Poland will gather here on Thursday, alongside world leaders and soldiers from the Soviet Red Army, for a solemn ...
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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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The tears, the joy and the euphoria that ushered in the liberation of Paris 60 years ago Wednesday were on the agenda of a grandiose fete meant to help Parisians relive the day they threw off the shackles of Nazi occupation.
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The UN General Assembly is to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz with a special session.
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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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As the world marks the liberation 60 years ago of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz today, Britain's chief rabbi made a plea to remember the Holocaust and its lessons without hate.
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UNESCO officially renamed the Auschwitz death camp in Poland Thursday to reflect the German Nazi role, and added seven new sites to its world heritage registry, including ancient ruins in Iraq.
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Holocaust survivors on Sunday marked the 70th anniversary of the Buchenwald concentration camp's founding by honoring more than 38,000 victims whose identities had previously been unknown.
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Images of the ceremonies held to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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Holocaust survivors and their families gathered at one of Europe's largest Jewish cemeteries Sunday to remember more than 200,000 Jews from this city killed by the Nazis, a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the last transports from the Lodz ghetto to Hitler's death camps.
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Festivities are beginning in Ukraine to mark the 60th anniversary of Ukraine s liberation from the Nazi invaders.
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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.