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25 Jun 2022

10 life lesson's from Anne Frank's diary that will change your life

A person who has courage and faith will never die in misery: Anne Frank Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in Germany's Frankfurtbut Anne Frank was a Jewish girl of German-Dutch origin

25 Jun 2022

Google Doodle honours Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim Anne Frank

Anne Frank died when she was 15. She described her life in hiding from the Nazi party in a diary. Millions of Jews had to flee their homes to avoid persecution.

Russia-Ukraine war

22 Mar 2022

'Survived Hitler, murdered by Putin': WW II survivor killed in Ukraine

"Putin managed to `accomplish` what even Hitler couldn`t," Ukraine's Defence Ministry said on 96-year-old's death.

12 Oct 2020

'FB updating hate speech policy to ban Holocaust denial, distortion content'

"We've long taken down posts that praise hate crimes or mass murder, including the Holocaust. But with rising anti-Semitism, we're expanding our policy to prohibit any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust as well," said Zuckerberg in a FB post. "If people search for the Holocaust on Facebook, we’ll start directing you to authoritative sources to get accurate information," added Zuckerberg.

25 Jul 2020

Ex-Nazi guard Bruno Dey convicted over mass murder at Stutthof Camp

Rolled into the courtroom in a wheelchair and hiding his face behind a blue folder, Bruno D. acknowledged he had been an SS guard in the Stutthof concentration camp near Gdansk in what was then occupied Poland, but he said his presence did not amount to guilt.

02 Mar 2020

Vatican opens archives on history's most controversial Pope Pius XII

Award-winning German religious historian Hubert Wolf will be in Rome on Monday, armed with six assistants and two years of funding to start exploring documents from the "private secretariat" of the late pope.

10 Apr 2017

Israel condemns Le Pen comments on WWII round up of Jews

Israel on Monday condemned French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen's for denying her country was responsible for the war-time round-up of Jews later sent to Nazi death camps.

12 Jan 2017

Jewish groups ask Donlad Trump to apologise for invoking Nazis

US President-elect Donald Trump is under fire from Jewish groups who sought an apology from him for his remark comparing reports about him to Nazi-era propaganda, saying his statement was erroneous, offensive and denigrating to Holocaust survivors.

29 Sep 2016

Ukraine marks 75 years since Babi Yar mass slaughter of Jews

A sombre Ukraine on Thursday marks 75 years since the World War II slaughter of some 34,000 Jews on the outskirts of Kiev, one of the largest massacres of the Holocaust. The carnage by Nazi forces at the Babi Yar ravine has caused years of soul-searching and debate in Ukraine over the participation of local collaborators in the killings and atrocities that followed.

Auschwitz guard

17 Jun 2016

Ex-Auschwitz guard, "willing henchman" in Holocaust, convicted in Germany

A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard was sentenced to jail in Germany on Friday by a judge who branded him a "willing and efficient henchman" in the Holocaust.

15 May 2016

Israeli PM accuses Iran of ''preparing another Holocaust''

"I think all the countries of the world need to stand up and condemn this unequivocally," the Israeli PM said.

13 May 2016

Venezuela's UN envoy apologises to Israel over 'final solution' remarks

The "final solution" refers to the Nazi plan to exterminate Jews during World War II.

11 Mar 2016

Israeli Holocaust survivor world`s oldest man: Guinness

A 112-year-old Israeli Holocaust survivor who lived through both world wars is now the world`s oldest living man, Guinness World Records said on Friday.

25 Jan 2016

Angela Merkel opens Holocaust art expo with anti-Semitism warning

Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday opened a major exhibition featuring works by Jewish concentration camp prisoners, as she pledged to combat a feared rise in anti-Semitism in Germany linked to a record influx of refugees.

27 Nov 2015

Ex-prisoner Gross - Remembering Holocaust eased Cuba imprisonment

American former prisoner Alan Gross said remembering how his family survived the Holocaust helped him through five years of imprisonment in Cuba, where he was held on espionage charges, according to interview excerpts released on Friday.

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