Poland Buries Remains Believed to Be Jews
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The remains of 11 people believed to be Jews killed in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against Nazi occupiers were buried Thursday in a ceremony hailed by Jewish leaders as a sign of the rekindled relationship ...
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MAALOT-TARSHIHA, Israel -- Franz Feibel spent five years in the Buchenwald concentration camp, helplessly watching the ashes of Jewish prisoners spew out of the crematorium smokestack.
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KEVLJANI, Bosnia  - Forensic experts said Friday  they had found remains of 182 people, believed to have been  wartime prisoners killed by Bosnian Serb forces, in a mass  grave in western Bosnia and that they expected to find more.
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MENDEN-BARGE, Germany  - German authorities said on Thursday that they had unearthed the remains of 51 people, most of them children, in what may be a mass grave for murdered victims of Hitler's euthanasia program.
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The caretaker of Afghanistan's only functioning synagogue and one of the last remaining Jews in Kabul has died. But the man now believed to be the sole survivor of this once-thriving Jewish community, who feuded bitterly for years with the deceased, said Tuesday he was not sad to see him go.
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On the edge of the 19th-century cemetery, some 1,500 people stood in silent tribute as a Jewish cantor and a choir chanted Hebrew prayers in honor of those taken in railway cattle cars to Auschwitz and other ...
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LANCOVO, Slovenia  - After digging for two hours in a chilly forest clearing, the workers had their evidence: bones and the soil-covered, blackened remnant of a shoe confirmed this was a secret mass grave from World War Two.
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Palestinians say they&#39;ll honor Arafat&#39;s request by burying him in Jerusalem in the future. A checkered head scarf arranged the way Arafat wore his is planted on a stick at the grave.
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Ukraine reburied nearly 2,000 victims of Stalinist repression, paying its respects to those gunned down by the Soviet secret police before World War II and dumped into a mass grave, organizers said Sunday.
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Jewish leaders and Warsaw officials lit the candles of a large menorah in the center of the capital on Monday for Hanukkah, a rare public observance of a Jewish holiday in Poland.
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"They will come to you and say: Give me your coat. Take off your pants. Give me your shoes."  More than 700 people in Poland, including a former prime minister and foreign minister, signed an open letter condemning statements about Jews by a right-wing Roman Catholic priest who runs a controversial radio station.A magazine had reported that Rev. Tadeusz Rydzyk, during a lecture earlier this year at a journalism school, described Jews as greedy and criticized President Lech Kaczynski for donating land in Warsaw for a Jewish museum.Hundreds of people _ including former Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and former Auschwitz inmate and Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski _ signed the letter, saying Rydzyk's comments 'revealed his contempt' for Jews and fellow Christians. Read more
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Shouts of revenge echoed in a Palestinian refugee camp Monday as thousands buried a Hamas terrorist who was killed in a car bombing blamed on Israel.
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MENDEN-BARGE, Germany  - German authorities have unearthed the remains of 51 people, many of them children, in what may be a mass grave for murdered victims of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.
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Ukraine on Saturday reburied  some 2,000 people killed by the Soviet secret police over  several years up to the Second World War and left in mass  graves at a site near the capital.
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The skeletal remains of at least 51 people &#151; many of them children &#151; have been unearthed, and authorities suspect some were killed by the Nazis because they were disabled and considered worthless by the regime.
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Two pieces of Christian art that predate the Holocaust raise questions about anti-Semitism.
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WARSAW -- 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.