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New exhibit reveals details on French icon Simone Veil's life

The exhibition at Paris's Hotel de Ville features previously unpublished documents about the life of Simone Veil

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Inauguration of symbolic synagogue in Kyiv

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Chief rabbi of Kyiv Jonathan Benyamin Markovitch attend the inauguration of a symbolic synagogue at the memorial site commemorating the victims of Babyn Yar, one of the biggest massacres of Jews during the Nazi Holocaust.

World News

'It started with words': Holocaust survivors warn on hate speech

“The survivors of Auschwitz experienced first-hand what it is like when words become deeds. Their message to us: do not be indifferent!”

France

Holocaust victim was forced to sell the Klint art in 1938

France is returning a Gustav Klint painting to the family of its pre-war owner.

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France

French village inherits fortune from Austrian Jew it housed during WW2

In Chambon sur Lignon, only one person remembers Erich Schwam, who died at the end of December at the age of 90 in Lyon, leaving no relatives behind.

World News

The most striking images from this week's top stories

The key stories of the week have been captured by photographers around the world.

Travel News

Remembering the Holocaust: Where are the main tributes around Europe?

Today, the world is remembering the earth-shattering events of the Holocaust. Here are the European landmarks that pay eternal tribute to the millions of lives lost.

United Kingdom

Auschwitz survivor marks Holocaust Memorial Day after COVID recovery

Lily Ebert, 97, survived Auschwitz and COVID-19. Now she and her great-grandson are writing a book together.

World

Holocaust memorial day: thousands of names projected in Berlin

76 years ago, the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in occupied Poland was liberated. The day is commemorated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This year, pandemic restrictions in Germany mean the anniversary is being mostly marked virtually.

World News

What Nazi family albums and propaganda images tell us today

A selection of archive photographs shows the suffering of Jewish victims at the hands of their Nazi persecutors during the Holocaust in WWII.

Ukraine

Plans unveiled for Holocaust memorial complex at Ukraine's Babyn Yar

The ravine near Kyiv was the site of one of the worst Nazi massacres of Jews and ethnic Poles during the Second World War

World News

Facebook to ban posts about Holocaust denial

The move is the company's latest attempt to take action against conspiracy theories and misinformation ahead of the US presidential election.

Poland

Belongings of 'The Pianist' Wladyslaw Szpilman up for auction

A fountain pen, silver pocket watch and other prized possessions of the late Jewish-Polish composer Wladyslaw Szpilman go under the hammer in Warsaw next week.

The Cube

Mayor apologises for comparing French police to WWII Vichy regime

France's interior minister has called remarks comparing modern-day police to the Vichy regime "scandalous".

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".

Poland

Amazon series Hunters under fire over Auschwitz 'human chess' scene

The Auschwitz Museum in Poland says that inventing atrocities that didn't happen at the Nazi death camp only encourages Holocaust denial.

Vatican

Hitler's Pope or wartime saint? Pius XII's archives set to go public

More than 150 historians and researchers have signed up to access the soon-to-open Vatican archives of the World War II-era pope.

World News

In pictures: The best images from this week's biggest stories

Here is our selection of the best pictures from this week.

World

Liliana Segre: Auschwitz survivor talks about her experience

Segre was deported from Italy to Auschwitz in 1944 when she was 13 years-old. She was one of 776 Italian children under the age of 14 who were sent to the Nazi concentration camp. Only 25 survived

Germany

German right-wing MP closes eyes and slumps during Holocaust speech

German right-wing MP closes eyes and slumps during Holocaust speech