Romania says it had role in Holocaust
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President Ion Iliescu yesterday admitted Romania's complicity in the Holocaust, ending decades of denial that hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed in the country when it was an ally of Nazi Germany.
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When Leizer Finkelstein was 17, he was summoned, along with hundreds of other Jews, to the police station in his hometown of Iasi, in northeast Romania.
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Ukraine marks the 65th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, when more than 30,000 Jews were shot by the Nazis.
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Romania's president presented a report Monday denouncing the former Communist regime as 'criminal and illegitimate' and guilty of committing crimes against humanity -- the country's first such official ...Comment
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An international panel headed by Nobel-prize winner Elie Wiesel released a report Thursday detailing the responsibility of Romania's pro-Nazi authorities in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews and ...
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Bells gently tolled as Ukrainian and foreign dignitaries on Wednesday commemorated the 65th anniversary of the Nazi massacre of Jews at the Babi Yar ravine, placing flower-encircled candles at the foot of a giant monument to the tens of thousands of victims.
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TEHRAN -- Iran's Foreign Ministry yesterday convened a conference on the Holocaust that it boasted would provide a spirit of scientific inquiry and an airing of diverse views, but appeared to be attended primarily by Holocaust deniers and skeptics from around the world.
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Preparations for the Day of Memory of the Jewish People's Genocide have begun in Lithuania.
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BERLIN -- Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder of Germany expressed shame yesterday over the horrors of the Nazi era, acknowledging that Adolf Hitler's regime enjoyed wide support among Germans and promising that his country will always try to keep alive the memory of the Holocaust.
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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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Last June, President Ion Iliescu announced that "within the borders of Romania, there was no Holocaust between 1940 and 1945." But Leizer Finkelstein doesn't much care what Iliescu thinks.
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Romania's president is investigated for an alleged discriminatory remark - the second time this year.
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Citizens of Arab nations also played a role in the events of World War II, whether as villains or heroes, collaborators or 'righteous gentiles.' Denial of the Holocaust is a consistent theme of Arab politics - ...
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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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BUCHAREST, Oct 22 (IPS) - Twice this year, the Romanian National  Anti-Discrimination Council has had to issue judgments about  problematic statements made by President Traian Basescu. In one  of the instances, the Council declared the head of state guilty  of discrimination against the Roma.
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Up to two million people were killed or persecuted by the communists in Romania, an official report says.
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LODZ, Poland  - 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.