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Poland's president decides to boycott Holocaust memorial in Israel

Yad Vashem in Jerusalem said only the leaders of of WW2's four allied powers - plus Israel, as the host nation - would be asked to speak at the event.

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Hannukah: Germany's Jews celebrate start of Festival of Lights

Berlin's Jewish community on Sunday celebrated the start of Hannukah, the Festival of Lights.

Poland

Amazon removes 'inappropriate' Auschwitz Christmas products

The Auschwitz Memorial asked Amazon on Sunday to take down items featured on the website that it said were inappropriate.

Austria

Austria to grant citizenship to descendants of victims of Nazism

Second and third-generation relatives with British nationality have expressed interest in applying for citizenship of the EU country as Brexit looms.

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World News

First-ever movie in Slavic Esperanto premieres at Venice festival

Director Vaclav Marhoul said he specifically chose an invented language for the villagers' dialect. "I didn't want the villagers (speaking) Ukrainian or Polish or Russian or something like that because those people are really bad people," he said.

Lithuania

Sole synagogue in Lithuania's capital Vilnius shuts over safety fears

The move follows what the Lithuanian Jewish Community called “rising tension and incitement” in the wake of the city council’s vote to rename a street that had been named in honour of a Hitler ally.

USA

Florida principal reassigned after saying Holocaust was not "factual"

After furor and calls for his resignation, the Palm Beach County school board announced the principal would be moved to an administrative role.

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.

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Israel comes to a standstill in memory of the Holocaust

Israelis paused to the sound of a lamenting single-tone siren across the country, marking Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day in commemoration of the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during the Second World War.

Poland

Thousands take part in March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew led thousands in annual March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau to honour Holocaust victims

Israel

Journal of teenage Holocaust victim retold for social media age

#TheCube | As Israel commemorates the Holocaust on May 1 and 2, the diary of a Jewish teenage Holocaust victim is being recounted using Instagram for a social media generation.

Poland

Thousands march in Auschwitz for Holocaust Remembrance Day

The annual March of the Living event commemorates the victims of the Holocaust at the former Nazi concentration camp in Poland.

Hungary

Watch: Budapest Holocaust march honours Scottish missionary

Jane Haining died at Auschwitz and is the only Scot to be honoured as “righteous among the nations” by Yad Vashem.

Germany

German band Rammstein stirs outrage with Nazi death camp music video

A new trailer from German hard rockers Rammstein has shocked politicians and Jewish groups as band members are dressed as concentration camp detainees.

Poland

Auschwitz visitors told not to balance on train tracks for photos

Auschwitz Memorial told visitors in a Tweet "there are better places to learn how to walk on a balance beam than the site which symbolizes deportations of hundreds of thousands to their deaths".

World

Your Call in full: Gender equality and is the Holocaust forgotten?

Catch the full episode of Monday night's episode of Your Call.

Belarus

Remains of hundreds of Jews unearthed in Nazi-era grave in Belarus

Soldiers in Belarus have unearthed the bones of hundreds of people shot during World War Two from a mass grave discovered at the site of a ghetto where Jews lived under the Nazis.

United Kingdom

London court upholds Holocaust denial conviction against singer

Anti-Semitism campaigners say the case has set a precedent for future convictions of Holocaust deniers in the UK.

USA

Holocaust camp survivor, liberator sit side-by-side at SOTU speech

A Holocaust survivor and one of the soldiers who liberated the German concentration camp he was imprisoned at sat side-by-side during US President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.

USA

Watch: US Congress sings Happy Birthday to Holocaust survivor

US Congress united during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to sing Happy Birthday to an 81-year-old Holocaust and Pittsburgh massacre survivor.