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Romania on Thursday unveiled a monument in memory of some 300,000 Jews and Gypsies killed during the Holocaust in the country, which at times denied that the extermination even happened.
An 89-year-old white supremacist charged with killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has arrived at a North Carolina prison for an evaluation of whether he's competent to stand trial.
The French official choked on the words he read to a room of Defense Ministry recruits and swallowed back tears as he tried to kick off an unusual program aimed at teaching about the Holocaust.
The Holocaust survivor was 6 on that spring day in 1945 when he last saw the U.S. Army soldiers outside Magdeburg, Germany.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah-muh-DEE'-neh-zhahd) is muting his remarks on the Holocaust, an event he has frequently questioned as a matter of historical fact.
The head of Harvard University's student newspaper is blaming an ad that questioned the Holocaust on "a miscommunication."
Gaza students won't learn about the Holocaust this year.
A Spanish newspaper is defending its plans to publish an interview this weekend with a British writer who denies the Holocaust, despite a furious complaint from Israel.
An 89-year-old white supremacist charged with killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was ordered to remain in jail Wednesday after prosecutors said the frail man was still dangerous because he had "no true friends" and "nothing to lose."
A vintage train carrying people who escaped the Holocaust as children is steaming from Prague to London to mark the 70th anniversary of mass evacuations of children from Czechoslovakia.
A Hamas spiritual leader on Monday called teaching Palestinian children about the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews a "war crime," rejecting a suggestion that the U.N. might include the Holocaust in Gaza's school curriculum.
Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin are, when they even hint at an analogy to the Nazis in talking about Obama’s health reform effort, engaged in the vile evil of Holocaust denial, writes bioethicist Art Caplan.
After surviving the Holocaust as a child, Israel Meir Lau — a former Israeli chief rabbi — spent decades searching for the man who saved his life.
A white supremacist accused of killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is scheduled to be arraigned in September.
A federal judge in Nashville has dismissed a lawsuit by a Holocaust survivor and his family against the German government over an extensive art collection seized by the Nazis.
A federal grand jury indicted an elderly white supremacist Wednesday on charges that could earn him the death penalty in the fatal shooting of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Hate crimes charges were added to the case against James von Brunn, who has been in a hospital since the shooting last month.
From the western edge of the Muslim world, the King of Morocco has dared to tackle one of the most inflammatory issues in the Middle East conflict — the Holocaust.
Prosecutors say a white supremacist accused of fatally shooting a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is in no condition to come to court.
An international conference assessing efforts to return property and possessions stolen by the Nazis to their rightful owners or heirs said Monday that caring for Holocaust survivors is a matter of the "utmost urgency."
A federal judge has agreed to postpone until Tuesday a hearing on the condition of the suspect in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting.
Prosecutors said Tuesday that a white supremacist accused of opening fire in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum still hasn't recovered enough to appear in court but has been turned over to the District of Columbia's Corrections Department.
German officer Wilhelm "Wilm" Hosenfeld saved two Jews from the Nazi Holocaust, including Wladyslaw Szpilman, whose story was the basis of the Oscar-winning film "The Pianist." But he died in obscurity in a Soviet prison after World War II.
Child pornography was found on a computer belonging to the white supremacist charged with shooting and killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the FBI said in court documents.
As a slave laborer in Auschwitz, Meyer Hack was forced to sort through the tattered clothing stripped off inmates before they were sent to the gas chambers. He gathered valuable belongings hidden inside the clothes, stuffed them in a sock, hid them and later spirited them to freedom.
The son of the man accused of killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum said Sunday that his father had long burdened his family with his white supremacist views and that he wishes his father would have died in the shooting instead.
Shlomo Carlebach's Reaction to the HolocaustI had the blessing of knowing Shlomo. While I was involved with a guru at the time, Shlomo patiently suggested I go live either in his "House of Love and Prayer" in San Francisco or at his Moshav at Modiin in Israel.
British bishop Richard Williamson to go on trial in Germany for Holocaust denial British Holocaust-denying bishop Richard Williamson faces trial in Germany for an outspoken TV interview in which he denied that the wartime extermination of the Jews took place.
Some Thoughts on Historians and Contemporary Anti-evolutionism.In a recent book review for The British Journal for the History of Science, Thomas Dixon asks what contribution historians of science can make to the debate about intelligent design (ID).
Hitler house sale alarms localsSome historians have suggested turning the building into a museum. However Mr Skiba vigorously opposes the idea, saying it would encourage people from all over the world to visit the site.
Rep. Israel Condemns Tea Party Protest Holocaust SignsRep. Israel (D-NY) condemns Tea Party protest Holocaust signs, Nov. 6, 2009.
Iran's Leading Holocaust Denier Named Deputy Minister Mohammad Ali Ramin, who is said to have shaped the views of Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad on the Holocaust, has been appointed deputy culture minister for media affairs. Ahmadinejad has called the Holocaust a "myth."
Germany's Merkel Tells Congress Iran Must Not Acquire Nuclear BombGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has told a joint session of the U.S. Congress that her country can never accept a nuclear-armed Iran.
Merkel: Allowing Holocaust denier nukes is 'non-negotiable'"German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that a nuclear bomb in the hands of Iran "is not acceptable."
Ahmadinejad:"Why is the Holocaust used as pretext to occupy the lands of other people?"In this interview with Newsweek Ahmadinejad clearly does not dispute the Jewish Holocaust as part of the 60 million people killed in WW2 but says "Why is the Holocaust used as pretext to occupy the lands of other people?"
Memoirs of Hitler aide could finally end Holocaust claims - TelegraphThe memoirs of the last SS adjutant to Adolf Hitler are to be published in a move historians say could cast away the last shred of doubt over his personal involvement in the Holocaust.
Numerous memoirs of the Holocaust have been published, and no doubt many are yet to be published. Most of these fall into a particular genre. They chronicle someone's experience of one of the darkest periods in human history.
A Time To Kill the Killers, A Time for OutrageIt's time to kill the most horrific mass murderers and family destroyers in America of the last decades-- health insurance companies.
Holocaust Denial Rides AgainThe big question of course is why should the world be forced to remember? Simply because the Holocaust is not a Jewish affair. It touched all of mankind.
Holocaust survivors angered as Israeli town twins with Dachau After being rejected by dozens of towns, Moshe Sinai, the mayor of Rosh Haayn, a town 12 miles east of Tel Aviv, accepted Mr Bürgel's offer. Moshe Sanbar, an 84-year-old Israeli politician who survived Dachau, said: "We were worked to death there.
Beck compares Fox News to Jews during holocaust, other news organizations to silent bystanders"These news organizations don't have any idea what they're in bed with right now... first they came for the Jews and I wasn't Jewish... you think they're gonna have any hesitation...
Off the Face of the Earth:The remarkable story of a group of Holocaust survivors who hid in one of the world's largest cavesThe night of October 12, 1942, when the Stermers finally ran for good, was moonless and unseasonably cold. The roads in and out of the town of Korolowka, deep in the farm country of western Ukraine, were empty of the cart traffic that had peaked during the fall harvest days.
Deep Denial: Why the Holocaust Still Matters | The New RepublicIn his recent speech to the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu focused in his opening remarks on the Holocaust. "One-third of all Jews perished in the great conflagration of the Holocaust," Netanyahu reminded the delegates.
Ahmadinejad, Netanyahu and the Holocaust: The ethics of memoryNetanayhu's latest installment was the speech at the UN. (Get the full text of Netanyahu's speech here). The part of the speech in which he attacks Ahmadinejad and the Holocaust denial is certainly justified.
Grayson Regrets Comparing Health Care Crisis to Holocaust Florida Rep. Alan Grayson, who has drawn fire for saying Republicans want Americans to "die quickly" if they get sick, expressed regret Friday for comparing the health care crisis to a "holocaust."
Is Ahmadinejad trying to hide his Jewish roots by bashing Israel?Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's scathing attacks against Israel and his repeated denials of the Nazi Holocaust could be motivated by a desire to conceal his own Jewish roots, an Iran expert told The Daily Telegraph on Saturday.
According to the English dictionary the word "Holocaust" can be used to mean any disaster involving many deaths, even though, after WWII it has often, and quite correctly, been used in reference to the extermination of 6 million Jews in Nazi Germany.
Grayson Throws "Apology" Back In GOP's Face, Likens Health Crisis to the HolocaustRepublicans got an apology of sorts from Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson Wednesday – it just wasn't the one they wanted. Instead of saying he was sorry about accusing Republicans of wanting people to "die quickly," he gave an apology "to the dead."
Democrat says GOP wants sick to just 'die quickly'House Republicans say it's payback time for the recent reprimand of one of their own for heckling President Barack Obama.
Everything You Know About Iran Is A MythThey don't say the Holocaust didn't happen; they are suggesting something more complex than that. That last quote in particular suggests that Ahmadinejad is using the word "myth" in its correct, technical sense.
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