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Germans will never forget 'unfathomable horrors' at death camps, says Merkel

Germans will never forget the “unfathomable horrors” the Nazis inflicted at death camps. The words of Chancellor Angela Merkel, as she addressed a

Armenia

Armenia remembers the victims of 1915 massacre

Armenians have marked the centenary of the mass killing of their people at the hands of Ottoman Turkish forces in 1915. Coming from all over the

Germany

Auschwitz accountant 'morally guilty' for his work at Nazi death camp

A 93-year-old former bookkeeper at Auschwitz has told a German court that he felt morally guilty for his work at the Nazi death camp. Oskar Groening

Germany

'Accountant of Auschwitz' Holocaust trial begins in Germany

A former Auschwitz concentration camp guard has admitted to being “morally guilty” but says he committed no crime. Oskar Groening, 93, is before a

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Israel

Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

Israel came to a two minute standstill on Thursday to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day. To the sound of a siren people stood in solemn silence in

Cinema

Phoenix - a powerful post-Holocaust drama

‘Phoenix’ sees German director Christian Petzold reunite with his muse Nina Hoss for this poignant, perfectly executed film-noir. Emerging from the

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Auschwitz survivors mark 70 years since Nazi death camp liberated

Poland

Auschwitz 70th anniversary: Memories produce warnings for a modern world

Auschwitz’s last survivors urged the world not to forget the horrors of the Holocaust as they marked the 70th anniversary of the Nazi death camp’s

Poland

Auschwitz survivors 70 years on plead for 'our children's future'

At the Gate of Death, survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau have marked 70 years since their liberation from the Nazi German extermination camp in Poland

Poland

Auschwitz liberation 70 years on, mourning of millions

Auschwitz was liberated 70 years ago, today, by the advancing Soviet Red Army. For the 70th commemoration, former prisoners laid flowers at the Death

France

Auschwitz prisoner's tattoo like a tomb stone

Auschwitz survivor Elie Buzyn reflects on the marks of inhumanity that untold millions of people suffered from 70 years ago. He eventually settled in

Poland

[As it happened] Remembering the Holocaust at Auschwitz, 70 years on

Germany

Merkel speech opens Auschwitz anniversary events

German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed an audience gathered in Berlin for an event marking 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, the former

Poland

Holocaust Memorial Day: some key facts and figures

Holocaust facts and figures The Holocaust was the killing of around six million Jewish people by the Nazi regime from 1933 up to the end of the

Poland

Poland snubs Putin over Auschwitz anniversary

Russian President Vladimir Putin is not expected to attend Holocaust commemorations in Poland later this month as he apparently hasn’t been invited

Israel

Pope Francis kisses hands of Holocaust survivors

USA

Hitchcock's unseen holocaust horror

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Sharing the pain, learning the lesson