Nazi cautionary dramas wade into political, factual disputes
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood mustered its creative forces in the 1940s when Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany sought to conque...
China’s Israel envoy compares virus travel bans to Holocaust
JERUSALEM — China's acting ambassador to Israel apologized on Sunday after comparing the closure of several national borders to Chinese citizens amid ...
For Auschwitz survivor, telling her story is reason to live
NEW YORK — Bronia Brandman pulls up a sleeve on her leather jacket and shows the blue tattoo inked on her forearm that is a muted witness to her pain ...
Prince Charles visits Jerusalem tomb of unique ancestor
JERUSALEM — Britain's Prince Charles on Friday paid a solemn visit to the tomb of his grandmother, who sheltered Jews during the Holocaust and whose t...
Key quotes from world leaders at Holocaust forum
JERUSALEM — The presidents of France and Germany warned of rising anti-Semitism. Israeli and American leaders lashed out at Iran. Russia's president t...
Leaders vow to learn from Holocaust, offer competing lessons
JERUSALEM — Speaker by speaker, world leaders on Thursday denounced the rising threat of anti-Semitism and vowed never to forget the lessons of the Ho...
Russia-Poland feud over history clouds Auschwitz anniversary
WARSAW, Poland — Over the next several days, world leaders will gather twice to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the...
AP PHOTOS: After Auschwitz, survivors still bear witness
Seventy-five years after the killing stopped at Auschwitz, the survivors still bear witness, and many observe the rising hatred and anti-Semitism in t...
AP PHOTOS: Auschwitz, 75 years after its liberation
OSWIECIM, Poland — On Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet Red Army liberated the Auschwitz death camp in German-occupied Poland. The Germans had already fled we...
Hungary commemorates 1945 liberation of Budapest ghetto
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary's Jewish community on Sunday commemorated the 75th anniversary of the liberation by Soviet troops of the Budapest ghetto, ...
Agnes Keleti, the oldest living Olympic champion, turns 99
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Although she turned 99 on Thursday, even a 9-year-old would have a hard time keeping up with Agnes Keleti's irrepressible energy a...
Holocaust education planned after WV jail guard Nazi salute
CHARLESTON, W. Va. — West Virginia plans to begin training its corrections department staff about the Holocaust after a photograph of correction offic...
From New York to Moscow, Holocaust survivors share memories
PARIS — Holocaust survivors in several cities around the world are lighting candles for Hanukkah together, as Jewish community leaders try to keep fir...
Pope blasts ‘inhuman, un-Christian’ rebirth of anti-Semitism
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has denounced the "inhuman, un-Christian" rebirth of anti-Semitism, weighing in on an issue that has convulsed Italy in re...