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Israel Comes to Standstill to Remember Holocaust
(JERUSALEM) -- Israel came to a standstill for two mournful minutes Monday as sirens pierced the air in an annual ritual to remember the 6 million Jews...
20 Years Later, Schindler’s List Producer and Holocaust Survivor Branko Lustig Looks Back
One generation after the movie's release, the subject matter is more important than ever, the producer tells TIME
A Muted Anniversary: Are Europeans Forgetting the Holocaust?
On Monday France marked the 70th anniversary of the notorious July, 1942 roundup and deportation of over 13,000 Jews in Paris. That so-called Vel d’Hiv operation...
Israel Hosts Holocaust Survivor Beauty Pageant
In a June 22 contest some critics deemed “macabre,” fourteen Israeli Holocaust survivors between the ages of 74 and 97 competed for the title of “Miss Holocaust...
‘Joe The Plumber’ Blames Gun Control For The Holocaust
Remember when John McCain touted Samuel J. Wurzelbacher as the voice of reason during the 2008 presidential campaign? Yeah, that was a while ago.
Urban Outfitters Under Fire over ‘Holocaust T-Shirt’
Fashion retailer Urban Outfitters is facing outcry from Jewish groups over a t-shirt critics say is an offensive reference to the Holocaust. The yellow shirt...
On Holocaust Day, Israelis Debate Netanyahu’s Parallel with Iran
Wednesday was Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, an annual event marked by solemn ceremony, highways dotted with drivers standing beside their cars stopped for...
Holocaust Survivor, 82, Killed By Hurricane Irene
A moment of silence for Rozalia (Leah) Stern-Gluck, an 82-year-old Brooklyn grandmother and Holocaust survivor who tragically drowned in her Catskills cottage...
Museum Looking for Help to Identify the Holocaust's Lost Children
The U.S.'s largest Holocaust museum is looking to identify more than 1,000 survivors of the conflict, and they've turned to the Internet for help. The United...
Did Poles Profit Off Jews During the Holocaust?
At first glance, it seems like an ordinary, innocent photograph: a group of Polish peasants holding shovels in a field on a sunny day. But look closer and you...
A Mass Grave Raises Ghosts of Romania's Holocaust Past
One day in 1941, Vasile Enache was tending his cows in the forest of Vulturi, near the city of Iasi, 260 miles (420 km) northeast of Bucharest, when he heard...
The Plot to Cheat Germany's Holocaust Survivors' Fund
Fanya Bochkaryova was 16 years old when Nazis killed her father in 1941. "We lived in Odessa [in Ukraine]. My grandmother, my sister, my uncle," she says. "The...
Were German Diplomats Complicit in the Holocaust?
One of the pillars of Germany's political establishment, the Foreign Ministry, was a "criminal organization" during the Nazi era, and the country's diplomats...
Genetic Scars of the Holocaust: Children Suffer Too
The Holocaust is a crime that never seems to quit. Even as the ranks of survivors grow smaller each year, the impact of that dark passage in history continues to...
Pope's Silence Rings Loudly at Holocaust Memorial
Few question Pope Benedict XVI's good will, nor the eloquence of his prose. But for the second time in three years, the Pope has delivered a highly anticipated...
Argentina Deports a Holocaust-Denying Bishop
Fabled as the Shangri-la of fugitive Nazis, Argentina found itself dealing with old ghosts when it was revealed that a Holocaust-denying bishop, suddenly...
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Failed Holocaust Fable
When the full extent of the Holocaust became generally known after the end of World War II, the thought that its horror was too monstrous to write about in the...
Teaching Auschwitz to the Palestinians
As the road dips and rises through the Hebron hills, white etched with the glowing green of vineyards, the turn-off to Edna village is marked by the grey,...
Why Holocaust Denial Hurts the Palestinian Cause
By bringing together a macabre assortment of neo-Nazis, Klansmen and other right-wing cranks — many of whom would be just as keen to rid Europe of Muslims as the...
A Nation of Holocaust Deniers?
It's pretty vile having a Holocaust denier as a president. I feel partly responsible, because I didn't vote in the election that brought President Mahmoud...
