World news about “Holocaust” published by euronews.
‘Most wanted’ WWII criminal charged aged 98A 98-year-old man has been charged in Hungary with war crimes committed while he served as a Nazi officer nearly 70 years ago. Laszlo Csatary was named last… 18/06/2013
Israel PM opens Holocaust exhibition at Auschwitz Remembering the past Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has opened a Holocaust exhibition at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland. Just a few hours… 13/06/2013
Austria: Anniversary marked at former concentration camp Political leaders and survivors have been commemorating the 68th anniversary of the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. It coincided… 06/05/2013
Hungarians protest against growing anti-Semitism Thousands of Hungarians gathered along the banks of the Danube on Sunday in their annual March of the Living which remembers the victims of the Holocaust… 22/04/2013
Thousands join March of the Living to mark Holocaust Tens of thousands of people have taken part in this year’s March of the Living – a memorial to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day. The rally to honour the… 08/04/2013
HBO unearth Holocaust rescue documentary The documentary “50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr and Mrs Kraus” may bear many of the same hallmarks as other heroic stories from the Holocaust – with… 08/04/2013
Auschwitz: march of the living – nocomment The March of the Living, an annual silent tribute to victims of Holocaust, was held in Auschwitz on April 8. It is a three kilometre symbolic walk from the… 08/04/2013
The Holocaust memorial day comes soonInaugurated in may 2005, the Holocaust memorial in Berlin often appears on symbolic pictures. Here, these two people jumping from concrete elements of the… 26/01/2013
Sharing the pain, learning the lesson Is there ever a silver lining when tragedy strikes? Sometimes there are useful lessons to be learned from listening to people’s experiences. We look at what… 11/01/2013
Euro 2012: Azzurri visit Auschwitz Italian players visited the infamous death camp Auschwitz on Wednesday taking time out from their Euro 2012 preparations. During their visit teary-eyed… 06/06/2012
Water on the Warsaw Uprising MemorialWater drips over the mural dedicated to the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 on the side of the Slasko-Dabrowski Bridge near the old town of Warsaw REUTERS/Peter… 23/02/2012
French movie shines light on role of Muslims in the resistance French movie, “Les hommes libres,” – ‘The Free Men’ – brings to the big screen the little known story of Muslim men and women who saved the lives of Jews… 29/09/2011
Holocaust Remembrance DayIsrael marked Holocaust Remembrance Day with ceremonies and events throughout the country and around the world. At 10.00 am (local time) Israel came to a… 08/04/2013
Sharing the pain, learning the lessonIs there ever a silver lining when tragedy strikes? Sometimes there are useful lessons to be learned from listening to people’s experiences. We look at what… 11/01/2013
Roma victims commemoratedA memorial to the 500,000 Sinti and Roma people who were murdered by the Nazis has been inaugurated by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. It is intended to… 24/10/2012
Israeli young have Nazi camp numbers tattooed on their own armsHundreds of descendents of Holocaust survivors in Israel have had the tagging numbers which were imposed by Nazi prison warders on their relatives, tattooed… 05/10/2012
Hollande opens Jewish memorial centre in DrancyFrance has inaugurated a memorial and museum to honour the memory of Jews deported during the second world war. President François Hollande went to Drancy… 21/09/2012
Nazi descendants march together through death campsGrandchildren of Nazis together with Holocaust survivors and their descendants have begun a symbolic week-long march across Poland through the sites of former… 22/08/2012
Hollande highlights French role in wartime round-up of JewsPresident Francois Hollande has recognised France’s role in the Holocaust at a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of a notorious round-up of Jews. The… 22/07/2012
‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’ not a sick joke says organiserFourteen finalists gathered in Israel on Thursday night for a controversial beauty pageant called ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’, which critics have denounced as… 29/06/2012
Poland demands Obama apology over ‘death camp’ slip-upPoland has complained after US President Barack Obama slipped up during a ceremony to honour a dead World War II hero. Obama described what he called a… 30/05/2012
Israel marks Holocaust Memorial dayTwo minutes silence was marked across Israel on Thursday to remember the victims of the Holocaust. Sirens echoed across the country to mark the national… 19/04/2012
Protests at Austria far-right ball as Holocaust rememberedThere have been protests in Austria against an annual ball attended by European far-right leaders – which this year coincides with Holocaust Remembrance… 28/01/2012
Holocaust Remembrance Day marked worldwideIt is international Holocaust Remembrance Day. And at Auschwitz, survivors of Hitler’s Final Solution were among those marking 67 years exactly since the… 27/01/2012
Shock German survey on Holocaust Remembrance DayIt is international Holocaust Remembrance Day. But as the world recalls the horrors of the Hitler era, a new survey shows that a fifth of young Germans do… 27/01/2012
Germany marks Nazi Wannsee Conference anniversaryIn Germany, a memorial has taken place to mark the 70th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, the official start of the mass extermination of Jews. It was… 20/01/2012
Back in the Day: Nazis put the Final Solution on the recordJanuary 20, 1942 Fifteen senior officials in the Nazi German regime meet for the Wannsee Conference to make official arrangements for the deportation and… 20/01/2012
Israel displays Eichmann itemsRevisiting a dark period of crime and punishment: a licence plate is among the items vaunting the capture in Argentina more than 50 years ago of Adolf… 14/12/2011
Last gay holocaust survivor diesThe last survivor of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals has died in his sleep at the age of 98. Rudolf Brazda was interned in Buchenwald for 32… 05/08/2011
Romanian pogrom showed Nazis ‘how to do mass murder’Romania has marked the 70th anniversary of one of the worst pogroms of the Holocaust. Up to 15,000 Jews in the city of Iasi – a third of the total – were… 28/06/2011
Satisfaction and stupefaction after Demjanjuk trialObservers at the trial of John Demjanjuk expressed relief at the verdict, but many were stunned when the court ordered Demjanjuk’s release on the grounds of… 12/05/2011
Court frees Demjanjuk after finding him guiltyA court in Munich has freed 91-year-old John Demjanjuk just hours after finding him guilty of being an accessory to mass murder during his time at the Sobibor… 12/05/2011
Five years prison for Nazi Holocaust helperA 91-year-old man has been found guilty of helping to kill thousands of Jews in the Sobibor Nazi concentration camp during World War II. John Demjanjuk, who… 12/05/2011
Trial of ‘most wanted’ Nazi war crime suspect startsThe world’s most wanted Nazi war crimes suspect has gone on trial in Hungary. 97-year-old Hungarian Sandor Kepiro struggled into the Budapest court to face… 05/05/2011
Holocaust survivors asked for wartime relicsIsrael has been honouring the victims of the Nazi Holocaust in its annual day of remembrance. In Jerusalem, and elsewhere in the country, life came to a… 02/05/2011
Israel mourns as it marks Holocaust DayOn the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day Israel has held a ceremony at the country’s official memorial site of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Survivors lit six… 02/05/2011
Holocaust film goes on show in IranA kind of televisual revolution began in Iran on Monday. ‘Shoah’, Claude Lanzmann’s nine-and-a-half hour documentary on the Holocaust began its first… 09/03/2011
Turkey holds first Holocaust memorialTurkey has held its first-ever public ceremony commemorating the Holocaust at Istanbul’s biggest synagogue. Members of Turkey’s foreign ministry were… 28/01/2011
Germany marks Holocaust memorial dayGermany is marking Holocaust memorial day, 65 years after the liberation of Auschwitz. This year, Europe’s Roma are being represented for the first time… 27/01/2011
La SNCF exprime ses regrets pour son rôle dans la ShoahLors d’une cérémonie organisée à Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis), le président de la SNCF, Guillaume Pepy, a reconnu le passé sombre de la compagnie. Celui-ci a… 25/01/2011
FBI reveals massive Holocaust fraudSeventeen people have been charged in the United States with stealing millions of dollars meant for victims of the Nazis during World War Two. The money came… 10/11/2010
Book claims German diplomats active in HolocaustGermany’s Foreign Ministry played a far more active role in the Holocaust than previously thought, a new book reveals. ‘‘The Office and the Past’‘ claims… 26/10/2010
Holocaust exhibition created by survivorsThe horrors of everyday life in a Nazi concentration camp. Painted by members of the Holocaust themselves, this exhibition is a stark reminder of the six… 14/04/2010
Israel remembers Holocaust amid Iran fearsIsrael came to a standstill today as it remembered the six million Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust. 24 hours of commemorations… 12/04/2010
Survivors mark Buchenwald liberation, 65 years onIt is 65 years since Buchenwald was liberated. Those too young to have known the horrors of the Nazis joined survivors to mark the anniversary at the… 12/04/2010
Holocaust survivors focus on future lessonsIt was a cold and snowy day just like in January 1945 when the extermination camp was liberated. Survivors of Auschwitz-Birkanau joined world dignitaries at… 28/01/2010
Auschwitz ceremony remembers liberation dayIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has led a remembrance ceremony at the site of Auschwitz concentration camp on the 65th anniversary of its… 27/01/2010
Auschwitz survivor meets liberators of Nazi campThey know the horrors of Auschwitz first hand. Back in Poland on International Holocaust Memorial Day, survivor Alberto Israel has met two former Soviet… 27/01/2010
Peres addresses Bundestag in BerlinThe Israeli President Shimon Peres has given an emotional address to the German parliament, the Bundestag. He had gone to the special session in Berlin to… 27/01/2010
Sixty-five years after freedom for AuschwitzSixty-five years ago to the day, the Soviet Red Army marched into Auschwitz, bringing liberation to the remaining prisoners there. For more than a million… 27/01/2010
Six million Jews rememberedSixty-five years ago the Nazi death camps Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland were liberated by Allied troops. January 27 has become known as International… 27/01/2010
The horror of Auschwitz 65 years onJanuary 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers enter Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, the biggest concentration and extermination camp of the Third Reich. 7,000 of the camps… 26/01/2010
Peres meets German President before key speechIn Germany, Israeli President Shimon Peres began the second day of his state visit by meeting Horst Koehler, his German counterpart. He had travelled to the… 26/01/2010
Israeli museum to show Auschwitz plansIn the week that marks 65 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, the original blueprints of the Nazi death camp are set to go on display in Israel. The… 24/01/2010
Auschwitz locals in land compensation callResidents near Auschwitz are stepping up a campaign to get compensation for land and property seized by the Nazis to build the infamous death… 21/01/2010
Auschwitz sign ‘stolen for international collector’Police in Poland say the entrance sign to the Auschwitz nazi death camp was stolen to order for an international collector who neither lived in Poland nor is… 22/12/2009
Auschwitz sign robbers not neo-NazisThe five men detained by Polish police on Monday for stealing the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp sign, are common thieves. The police in the southern city… 22/12/2009
Auschwitz sign suspects “not neo-Nazis”Five men arrested in Poland for stealing the infamous “Arbeit macht frei” sign at the Auschwitz concentration camp have been described as common criminals… 21/12/2009
Australia to extradite nazi war crime suspectAustralia has given the green light to the extradition of one of the world’s most wanted nazi war crimes suspects. 88-year old Charles Zentai is listed by… 13/11/2009
Murder trial of Nazi stormtrooper opens in GermanyThe trial of a former SS soldier, who confessed to having killed three Dutch civilians has got underway in the German city of Aachan. The hearing was… 28/10/2009
Religious leaders at Auschwitz to honour victimsAgainst the sombre backdrop of Auschwitz- Birkenau, representatives of major world religions have paid tribute to those who died in the Nazi’s most notorious… 08/09/2009
Demjanjuk charged with Holocaust atrocitiesA suspected Nazi death camp guard has been formally charged with helping to murder 27,000 Jews in World War II. The trial of John Demjanjuk, 89, will be… 13/07/2009
Doctors say John Demjanjuk is fit to stand trialAccused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk has been deemed fit enough by medical experts to stand trial for allegedly helping to kill 29,000 Jews in 1943… 03/07/2009
Guard dies in attack on Holocaust Museum in WashingtonAn elderly man described by the media as a white supremacist has been shot and critically wounded after killing a security guard at the Washington Holocaust… 11/06/2009
Obama visits Buchenwald concentration campUS president Barack Obama has been visiting the concentration camp of Buchenwald in eastern Germany. Buchenwalkd was one of the largest and first camps… 05/06/2009
Pope winds up Holy land tourThe Pope has left Israel at the end of his Middle East tour with a robust message that the Holocaust would never be forgotten nor denied. In a farewell… 15/05/2009
