A Russian court on Monday rejected a request to release classified documents about Swedish World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg, whose fate remains a mystery seven decades after his reported death, Russian news agencies reported. Wallenberg, a former Swedish diplomat, helped save thousands of Hungarian ...
What was it like in a Nazi concentration camp? How did you survive? How has it affected your life since? Technology is allowing people to ask these questions and many more in virtual interviews with actual Holocaust survivors, preparing for a day when the estimated ...
Argentina on Tuesday gave Israel thousands of World War II era documents during a visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he says marks "a new dawn" in his country's relationship with Latin America. The digital documents delivered by President Mauricio Macri include nearly 140,000 ...
Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso on Wednesday retracted a remark to lawmakers of his faction in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party that could be interpreted as a defense of Adolf Hitler's motive for genocide during World War Two. Tuesday's comment by Aso, who also serves ...
Switzerland's tourism office on Tuesday decried an "unfortunate" incident in which a small Alpine hotel posted a sign asking "Jewish guests" to shower before swimming in the hotel pool. The Simon Wiesenthal Center demanded the closure of the Paradies Arosa hotel in the eastern town ...
A Louisiana congressman is apologizing for the “unintended pain” caused by a video of his visit to a gas chamber at a Nazi-era concentration camp. Rep. Clay Higgins said in an email Wednesday that he’s retracting the video, recorded at the Auschwitz camp that is ...
Tracing the path of their mother, who escaped the Holocaust with help from some defiant Japanese, New Yorkers Deborah and Shelley Reed experienced myriad emotions on their first visit to Japan during the peak cherry blossom season last month. It was around the same time ...
Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen denied Sunday that the French state was responsible for the wartime round-up of Jews at a Paris cycling track who were then sent to Nazi death camps. Former President Jacques Chirac and current leader Francois Hollande have both apologized ...
President Donald Trump's administration on Friday issued a Holocaust remembrance statement that failed to mention the 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi genocide. The statement cited the "victims, survivors, heroes" of the Holocaust but did not mention Jews or anti-Semitism. News reports said the omission ...
An annotated edition of "Mein Kampf," Adolf Hitler's notorious manifesto, has become a non-fiction best-seller in Germany. The publisher said Tuesday that a sixth print run will go on sale later this month. Some 85,000 copies of the book have been sold since it was ...
The Embassy of Israel in Japan on Thursday referred to a Japanese all-girl "idol" group that drew criticism at home and abroad for wearing outfits resembling Nazi uniforms in its social media accounts, saying it will invite the band to a "special seminar" about ...
World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg, who is credited with helping at least 20,000 Hungarian Jews escape the Holocaust, has been pronounced dead by Swedish authorities, 71 years after he disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The Swedish diplomat is believed to have died in Soviet captivity, ...
