Germany's Memorial to Jews Completed
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A crane hoisted the last of thousands of charcoal-colored slabs into place at Germany's national Holocaust memorial Wednesday to commemorate the 6 million Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis.
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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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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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"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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On the final stop of his trip to his predecessor's homeland, the German Pope visited the notorious death camp and offered a remarkable meditation on the Holocaust
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Experts have determined that the remains of about 60 people found at a construction site in central Germany were from long before World War II, police said Friday.
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Paris' new memorial to the Holocaust was inaugurated 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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Nearly eight decades after their tragic deaths, two of Theodor Herzl's children were buried Wednesday in Jerusalem in an official ceremony that fulfilled the founder of modern Zionism's century-old will.
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German President Horst Koehler on Wednesday applauded Israeli plans withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, calling the decision a "courageous step", while also citing the rising Jewish population in Germany as being ...
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The makers of a movie starring Tom Cruise about a failed plot to kill Adolf Hitler will most likely be allowed to use a German memorial site after all, a spokesman for the Finance Ministry said on Friday.
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Israel's first Olympic gold medallist  dedicated his victory on Wednesday to his 11 countrymen killed  in the Munich massacre of 1972, vowing he would visit their  memorial to show them his medal.
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BERLIN, Sept. 14 -- The first rabbis since the Holocaust were ordained in Germany on Thursday, the latest marker in the gradual return of Judaism to a nation where most vestiges of Jewish life were once eradicated.
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A wall with the engraved names of 76,000 Jews deported from France to Nazi death camps during the Holocaust was unveiled in Paris Monday.
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DRESDEN, Germany  - A trio of students will be   confirmed as rabbis this week, the first such ordination in   Germany since the Nazi regime began the slaughter of six   million European Jews more than 60 years ago.
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Werner Bab remembers going with his father to Berlin's Rykestrasse Synagogue in the 1930s, soon after the Nazis came to power &#151; a time, he says, when all the talk among the Jews at Sabbath services centered on politics and how to get out of Germany.
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PARIS -- With name after name engraved on pale stone walls, a new monument in the city's Jewish quarter pays tribute to the 76,000 Jews rounded up in France during the Holocaust and sent to Nazi death camps.
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The victims' bones were laid in a simple pine coffin and lowered into the ground, along with bags containing the clothes and shoes of the men, women and children, in the capital's Jewish cemetery.