Holocaust

Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar, will appear at the UNs International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to defend the country against accusations of genocide committed against the Rohingya ethnic minority. Suu Kyi, who became a global icon when she…

Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who in the early 1980s raised interest rates to historic highs and triggered a recession as the price of quashing double-digit inflation, died, according to his office. He was 92. Volcker took charge of the …

A holocaust survivor watched starving concentration camp prisoners roast and eat the human flesh of a child just to stay alive. Nazi hunter and former concentration camp prisoner Josef Lewcowicz witnessed "so much cruelty that nothing surprised" him during h…

(OSWIECIM, Poland) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced a feeling of “deep shame” during her first-ever visit on Friday to the hallowed grounds of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where Adolf Hitler’s regime murdered more than a mi…

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…