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New York hosts first-ever full replica of Anne Frank’s hiding place

A full-scale replica of Anne Frank's secret annex opened in New York City on Holocaust Remembrance Day, offering a look into her two years in hiding.

28/01/2025

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80 years since liberation of Auschwitz remembered

The 80th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation has been marked by a ceremony at the former Nazi death camp.

27/01/2025

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German court upholds conviction of former Nazi camp secretary, aged 99

Furchern was convicted after judges said they were convinced she knew and "deliberately supported" the fact that 10,505 prisoners were killed in gassings at the concentration camp near Danzig.

20/08/2024

United Kingdom

Death toll at WWII Nazi camps on tiny British island to be re-examined

The UK government has appointed a team of experts to carry out an investigation into whether the death toll at World War II camps on Alderney is much higher than the official figure.

01/08/2023

Slovakia

'Forgotten' Holocaust heroes help Slovakia come to terms with its past

Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler were the first Jews to escape from Auschwitz and warn the world of concentration camp genocide.

27/01/2023

Germany

Former German Nazi camp secretary appeals against conviction

The 97-year-old was found guilty last week of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders.

28/12/2022

Poland

Ashes of 8,000 WWII victims found in mass grave in northern Poland

The human ashes were unearthed near the former Nazi concentration camp of Soldau.

14/07/2022

Germany

Nazi camp guard, 101, jailed for 'complicity' in 3,518 murders

Josef Schütz was given a five-year jail term on Tuesday for complicity in the murder of 3,518 prisoners at the Sachsenhausen camp, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945.

28/06/2022

Ukraine

He survived four Nazi death camps but was killed by a Russian missile

Boris Romaschenko, 96, was interned in four different World War II concentration camps.

22/03/2022

Poland

Tourist arrested for giving Nazi salute outside gates of Auschwitz

The 29-year-old woman was fined after telling prosecutors that her gesture was a "stupid joke".

24/01/2022

Germany

Ex-Nazi camp secretary appears in court on war crimes charges

The 96-year-old woman faces more than 11,000 charges of accessory to murder.

19/10/2021

Poland

Anti-Semitic graffiti found at Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp

Nine barracks were spray-painted with anti-Semitic phrases in both English and German, the memorial said.

06/10/2021

Germany

Germany remembers victims 76 years since Buchenwald's liberation

"We the survivors are fading away but I hope that this process of remembrance will continue, said Alex Hacker, who was a prisoner at the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp.

11/04/2021

USA

US deports former Nazi concentration camp guard, 95, to Germany

Friedrich Karl Berger, 95, who moved to Tennessee in 1959, admitted to being a former concentration camp guard. He denies being an alleged "accomplice" in the deaths of camp prisoners.

20/02/2021

Germany

Nazi concentration camp secretary charged with complicity to murder

It is believed to be the first time for several years that a woman has been charged in relation to wartime Nazi atrocities.

05/02/2021

Germany

Nazi concentration camp guard Bruno Dey, 93, convicted in Germany

Prosecutors argued that while he was "no ardent worshipper of Nazi ideology'', Bruno Dey aided the killings that took place in Stutthof as a "small wheel in the machinery of murder".

23/07/2020

Netherlands

Dutch railway to spend millions compensating Holocaust survivors

Several thousands people, including 500 survivors, will receive up to €15,000 from NS as compensation for its role transporting Jews, Roma and Sinti to Nazi concentration camps.

27/06/2019

USA

Trump blames "pathetic" Democrat immigration policies for childrens' deaths

Attributes death to rigours of desert crossing and ill-health.

30/12/2018

Netherlands

Holocaust survivors to be compensated by Dutch wartime train operator

More than 100,000 Dutch Jews were killed during the Second World War.

28/11/2018