The Holocaust

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...
18:57 27 February 2022

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 ...
19:44 2 February 2022

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 ...
16:49 24 January 2022

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...
15:40 24 January 2022

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...
20:15 23 January 2022

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...
18:44 23 January 2022

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...
12:28 22 January 2022

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...
9:27 22 January 2022

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...
11:31 21 January 2022

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, ...
14:25 19 January 2022

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...
11:41 9 January 2022

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...
19:34 31 December 2022

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...
11:36 23 December 2021

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...
11:34 13 November 2021