Holocaust

Holocaust Quotes
Here are some Holocaust quotes that bring to mind that dark period in the history of the world.

Jewish Holocaust Facts
The Holocaust stands out for its frightening rationality and efficiency in systematically killing the Jewish people and other so-called subhumans.

Why did the Holocaust Happen?
Much is talked, written and read about the Holocaust. The Holocaust may be one of the most discussed aspects of the World Wars. Though today it is claimed that everything about the Holocaust has been revealed, many laymen individuals have gone on record to say that only some bits and pieces of the Holocaust have been spoken about

Holocaust Survivor Killed During Massacre While Saving Students
Dr. Liviu Librescu survived the horrors of the Holocaust during World War II, only to die at the hands of a gunman while telling his students: "Run!"

Brits Decide Holocaust Too Hot For Students
Some educators in Britain have decided that the Holocaust, and other historical events like the Crusades—are not worthy of classroom discussion because the subject nature may offend Muslim students, especially those for whom Holocaust denial is a way of life.

Facts About The Holocaust
Information on the Holocaust and its premise of 'ethnic cleansing'.

Siblings Separated by Holocaust Reunited 65 Years Later
The Glasberg family of Chernowitz, Russia, was broken apart in 1941 when the Nazis invaded, and daughter Hilda believed most of her family had died. But 65 years later, her grandsons located her brother in Canada—thanks to the Internet.

Small Trunks Carry Big Message about Tolerance, Character
A unique "self-contained" program by the Holocaust Museum Houston is taking the work out of course preparation on a difficult and sensitive subject.

Archaeologists Discover Treasures of Holocaust Victims in Poland
Holocaust survivors working in conjunction with an Israeli archaeologist in Lublin, Poland have found jewelry and other artifacts that were apparently hastily buried by prisoners at the Majdanek death camp.

Ceremonies Mark 60th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation
World leaders gathered in Poland on January 27th to remember the victims of the Holocaust who were imprisoned in the Auschwitz death camp during World War II.

German Railways Admits Complicity in Holocaust
German railways admits central role Nazi-era predecessor played in the Holocaust with new exhibition

Holocaust Hero Accused of Savings Theft
The only surviving member of the Bielski brothers, the trio hailed as second world war heroes for their role in helping hundreds of Jews escape the Holocaust, is facing charges in Florida that he tricked a 93-year-old woman out of all her savings

Cracks Appear in Berlin's Holocaust Memorial
Berlin's Holocaust memorial is said to be in urgent need of repair after cracks were found in some 400 of its concrete slabs.

University Denies Tenure to Outspoken Holocaust Academic
Political scientist loses bid after four to three vote - Rancour lives on in Jewish and academic worlds

Polish Girl's Holocaust Diary Unveiled After 60 Years
More than 60 years after it was written, the diary of a 14-year-old Jewish girl who is being described as the 'Polish Anne Frank' has been unveiled by Israel's Holocaust museum.

Vatican Ambassador to Boycott Holocaust Memorial in Row Over Photo
The Vatican ambassador to Israel has sparked a public row after refusing to attend this Sunday's annual Holocaust memorial service in Jerusalem in protest at a description of the wartime role of Pope Pius XII.

Letter Proves Speer Knew of Holocaust Plan
A newly discovered letter by Adolf Hitler's architect and armaments minister Albert Speer offers proof that he knew about the plans to exterminate the Jews, despite his repeated claims to the contrary.

Holocaust Denial Writer Jailed for Five Years
Extradited German given maximum sentence - Publisher a dangerous agitator, judge says

Germany Bids to Outlaw Denial of Holocaust Across Continent
Nazi symbols and racist speech 'should be banned' - Prince Harry's fancy dress would have broken law

Romania's First Gift to the European Union - a Caucus of Neo-fascists and Holocaust Deniers
Accession states mean group has enough MEPs - Le Pen deputy set to be leader of far-right alliance

Holocaust Denier Irving Freed Early From Prison
Remaining 23 months to be served on probation - Author had 'impeccable conversion', says judge

Holocaust Deniers Gather in Iran for 'scientific' Conference
Visitors include ex-KKK chief and radical rabbis - Israel calls for action against 'sick phenomenon'

Britons to Attend Iran's Holocaust Conference
Gathering will consider whether deaths took place - Event 'will not be a forum for anti-semites'

Iran Cartoon Show Mocks Holocaust
Tehran exhibition attacks West's 'double standards' over religious satire.

Will Germany Declare War On Iran?
With the "Hitler-like" rhetoric coming from Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his denial of the Jewish holocaust seems to have German chancellor Angela Merkel screaming for action.

Lone Jewish Mp Confronts Ahmadinejad on Holocaust But Stresses Loyalty to Iran
Maurice Motamed has one of the loneliest jobs in the Middle East. When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made his controversial Holocaust statements, the sole Jewish MP in Iran's 290-member Majlis (parliament) felt he had no option but to confront him.

Closed Archive Leads to Holocaust Denial Claim
· Calls for Germany to open up secret cache · Documents include files on 17 million people

Irving Jailed for Denying Holocaust
David Irving, the discredited historian and Nazi apologist, was last night starting a three-year prison sentence in Vienna for denying the Holocaust and the gas chambers of Auschwitz.

David Irving Jailed for Holocaust Denial
The British revisionist historian and Nazi apologist David Irving was today sentenced to three years in prison after he admitted denying the Holocaust.

Austrian Court Jails Holocaust Denier Irving
The British revisionist historian and Nazi apologist David Irving was today sentenced to three years in prison after he admitted denying the Holocaust.

Irving Pleads Guilty to Holocaust Denial
The British revisionist historian and Nazi apologist David Irving today pleaded guilty to charges of denying the Holocaust in 1989 but claimed his views had changed since then.

Tight Security As Trial of Holocaust Denier Begins
The British Nazi apologist and revisionist historian David Irving goes before three Austrian magistrates and a jury of eight in Vienna this morning to plead guilty to charges of denying the Holocaust.

Danish Paper Pursues Holocaust Cartoons
The Danish paper responsible for the original caricatures of the prophet Muhammad is set to stoke the row further by running cartoons satirising the Holocaust. By John Plunkett.

Iranian Paper to Run Holocaust Cartoons
Muslim protesters infuriated by cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad raised the diplomatic stakes last night as Iran's best-selling newspaper announced it would retaliate by running images satirising the Holocaust.

We Want to Step Out of the Shoah Shadow, But We Run Into Obstacles
As the Holocaust goes from memory to history, Jews have tried to move forward. But the deniers haul us back again.

Lies and politics: Are they the same?
The holocaust of World War II is now just a "myth"....say politicians! Those who were there say differently....

Obituary: Manfred Alexander
Manfred Alexander, who has died aged 85, began his working life as a bricklayer in Berlin and ended up as a property broker in New York.

Tehran Faces Backlash Over Conference to Question Holocaust
Iran announced yesterday it would stage a conference to question the authenticity of the Holocaust, a move certain to stir international anger.

Western Music is Latest Target of Iran's Hardline President
· Holocaust denial followed by cultural crackdown · Bee Gees and Clapton among artists banned

Iranian President Calls Holocaust a 'myth' in Live Tv Broadcast
Iran's ultra-Islamist president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, triggered a fresh wave of international outrage yesterday by dismissing the Holocaust as a myth and calling for Jews to be moved to Canada and Alaska.

The Sickness Bequeathed By the West to the Muslim World
The Iranian president's support for Holocaust denial is a measure of how far the infection of Jew-hatred has spread.

Mel Gibson to Produce Tv Series Based on Holocaust
Mel Gibson, whose controversial film The Passion of the Christ was condemned in some quarters as being anti-semitic and whose father has been accused of being a Holocaust denier, is working on a mini-series set against the backdrop of the Holocaust.

'Repentant' Irving to Plead Guilty But Must Stay in Jail
David Irving, the discredited British historian of the Nazis, will spend Christmas and New Year in a Viennese jail after yesterday being refused bail and being remanded for four weeks pending trial for allegedly lying about the Holocaust.

Holocaust Denial Charges Against Irving
Austrian prosecutors filed charges yesterday against David Irving, the Nazi apologist historian branded a racist and anti-semite by a high court judge five years ago, for allegedly denying the existence of the gas chambers at Auschwitz.

Wiesenthal Buried in Israel
Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who did more than any single individual to bring Nazi war criminals to justice, was buried in Israel today.

End of an era
Holocaust's avenging angel is no more. Let’s salute this real life hero…

Obituary: Simon Wiesenthal
Veteran Nazi-hunter and Holocaust survivor whose quest for justice set a moral standard for the postwar world.

Tireless Voice of 6m Murdered Jews
Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who did more than any single individual to bring Nazi war criminals to justice, died yesterday at his modest home in Vienna at the age of 96.

Wartime Codebreakers Missed Clues to Holocaust
Coded Nazi messages intercepted by Britain could have exposed the scope of the Holocaust years before the liberation of the death camps, but Allied codebreakers failed to fully understand the information they had, according to United States government analysis of intelligence from the era.

Swastika Drawn on Holocaust Memorial
Vandals scrawled a Nazi swastika on Germany's new Holocaust memorial within hours of it opening to the public.

60 Years On, Berlin Honours Hitler's Victims
After years of controversy and delay, Germany opened its Holocaust memorial yesterday - a vast field of concrete slabs in the historic heart of Berlin only a few hundred metres from the site of Hitler's bunker.

World Leaders at Launch of Holocaust Museum
A new Holocaust museum, designed to affirm Israel's claim to be the principal keeper and interpreter of survivors' memories, opened in Jerusalem yesterday.

Leaders and Survivors Gather at Auschwitz
World leaders and Holocaust survivors today gather to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Dresden parliament in uproar at neo-Nazi outburst
Leading neo-Nazis outraged an east German state assembly yesterday by branding the second world war western allies "mass murderers" and accusing the British of perpetrating a "holocaust" against Germans.

Wall of Names for Museum
Stone walls bearing the names of 76,000 people deported from France to Nazi concentration camps during the second world war will mark the entrance to a Holocaust memorial museum.

Settlers Fight Back With Symbol of the Holocaust
Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip have adopted Star of David badges similar to those which Jews were forced to wear by the Nazis in the 30s in protest at Israel's plan to evacuate them from their homes.

Last Slab of Berlin Holocaust Monument Put in Place
The last slab of Berlin's Holocaust Memorial was lowered into place yesterday, marking the end of nearly 20 years of wrangling in Germany over how to commemorate Europe's murdered Jews.

Gypsies Win Right to Sue Ibm Over Role in Holocaust
A Swiss appeals court yesterday ruled that the US computer giant IBM may have helped Adolf Hitler pursue mass murder more quickly than would otherwise have been possible, opening up the prospect of a $12bn lawsuit against the company by Gypsy organisations.

The Holocaust's Shadow
Europeans are being urged to ensure that the anti-semitism of the Nazi era never happens again. But exaggerating the problem won't help solve it, writes Ian Black.

Our Part in the Holocaust
One Channel Island at least is owning up to its wartime shame. On Tuesday, Holocaust Memorial Day, a small ceremony will take place in the Occupation Tapestry Gallery of the Jersey Museum in St Helier.

Berlin's Jewish Memorial Halted
A Holocaust memorial in Berlin was at the centre of huge embarrassment after it emerged that one of its German construction firms had supplied Zyklon B used in Nazi gas chambers.

Palestinian leader rejects allegation of Holocaust denial
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian prime minister, was forced yesterday to publicly confront allegations that he was a Holocaust denier.

'Holocaust on a Plate' Angers Us Jews
An animal rights organisation has sparked outrage with a campaign and exhibition that compares the slaughter of livestock to the Holocaust in the second world war. The exhibition, called Holocaust on Your Plate, juxtaposes harrowing images of people in concentration camps with disturbing...

Memories caught on the brink of extinction
Internet archive rekindles family life in the shtetl, the eastern European Jewish villages razed in the Holocaust

Reborn Covent Garden takes a big gamble with lavish Holocaust opera
"This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair... " The closing lines of Sophie's Choice by William Styron are among the most poignant in modern literature and they could have almost been written for the Royal Opera House.

Who Chooses the Righteous Gentiles?
Court enters row about non-Jews honoured for Holocaust heroism.

Holocaust writer wins Nobel Prize
This year's Nobel Prize for literature has been won by Hungarian author and Holocaust survivor Imre Kertesz, whose autobiographical novels explore how individuals can survive when subjected to "barbaric" social forces.

German author hit by Holocaust allegation
A leading German newspaper yesterday announced that it had abandoned plans to serialise a new novel by one of the country's most celebrated authors, saying it had concluded that the work was an anti-semitic "document of hate".

Holocaust survivor shocks fellow Jews by voting for the National Front leader
Jo Goldenberg lost both parents and all his sisters in Auschwitz, and survived the Nazi occupation of Paris and a terrorist bomb attack on his celebrated kosher restaurant in the Marais district. He knows about anti-semitism. And on Sunday he voted for Jean-Marie Le Pen.

IBM 'dealt directly with Holocaust organisers'
Author says US firm had control of Polish subsidiary. Newly discovered documents from Hitler's Germany prove that the computer company IBM directly supplied the Nazis with technology which was...

Swiss helped Nazis by refusing entry to Jews
The Swiss authorities knowingly contributed to the Holocaust by turning away Jewish refugees, a five-year study concluded yesterday.