Holocaust

Angela Merkel has expressed "deep shame" during her first visit as Germany's chancellor to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Holocaust memorial and pledged to fight rising racism and anti-Semitism in her country and Europe. A black-clad Merkel said on Friday that the c…

ANGELA Merkel was again spotted losing her balance during her first ever trip to the Auschwitz concentration camp amid Germany's anti-Semitism spike. It comes amid growing fears for the German Chancellor's health after she was seen shaking uncontrollably in …

Daniel Libeskind's Swarovski star tops the Rockefeller Center's Christmas tree for a second year. In this interview with Dezeen, the architect says the design, like much of his work, is strongly influenced by his experience as an immigrant. Libeskind designe…

A photo of West Virginia corrections officer trainees giving a straight-arm Nazi salute drew the governor's condemnation on Thursday.  Gov. Jim Justice ordered the firing of all state employees involved in the incident, which is under investigation by the st…

Image copyrightEPAImage caption The political art group says it found victims' ashes in soil near former Nazi death camps A German activist group has apologised for displaying what it claimed to be Holocaust victims' ashes in a memorial near the German par…

The International Skating Union (ISU) has apologized after an Auschwitz-themed ice skating costume was nominated for the organization's "best costume" list in what they have called an "error." The costume was worn by Russian figure skater Anton Shulepov as h…

The Chicago-area Holocaust denier who got 26% of the vote when he ran for Congress two years ago wants to give it another shot. Arthur Jones, 71, filed paperwork Monday declaring his candidacy for the 3rd House District Republican primary in Illinois. Jone…

Though Slave Play," which was written and directed by queer black men, takes a lot of the assumptions of what might be called social justice culture for granted, its nevertheless promiscuous in its provocations. (A central conflict revolves around a black wom…

Hans Calmeyer was a left-wing German lawyer -- his law license was temporarily suspended when he was accused of being a Communist -- who was inducted into the German army under the Nazis, who put him in charge of an office that determined which Dutch people w…

Amazon has removed Christmas ornaments and other items with images of concentration camps after the Auschwitz Memorial raised concerns about their sale. A Twitter account for the Auschwitz Memorial shared images Sunday of Christmas ornaments, a mouse pad and…