Holocaust

Image copyrightReutersImage caption People placed roses on a remaining portion of the Berlin Wall during a ceremony on Saturday German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned against taking democracy for granted, at a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of t…

ROME — An 89-year-old senator who survived the Holocaust has been placed under police protection after withstanding a barrage of anti-Semitic abuse online. Liliana Segre, who was sent to Auschwitz at the age of 13, became a target after she proposed establis…

An 89-year-old Italian woman who survived the Holocaust has been given a police escort after receiving a barrage of anti-Semitic threats.  Liliana Segre, who was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 at the age of 13, has been receiving up to 200 hate messages a day…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Liliana Segre has reported receiving about 200 hate messages a day An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor in Italy has been assigned police guards for protection after receiving hundreds of threats on social media. Lili…

A Delhi court on Monday summoned Sudhir Chaudhary, Editor-in-Chief of Zee News, as an accused in a criminal defamation case filed by Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra for allegedly saying in his show that her speech in the Lok Sabha on the signs of fascism was plagia…

DENVER Federal authorities in Colorado have arrested a man they said was known to promote white supremacy, accusing him of taking part in a plot to blow up a synagogue in Pueblo, a city two hours south of Denver, according to federal court documents. The man…

In what will likely be one of the last of its kind, a pair of Jewish siblings shared an emotional reunion with the woman who helped save their lives during the Holocaust. Sarah Yanai and Yossi Mor were just children when the Nazis invaded their native Greece…

Media captionBergen-Belsen survivors meet 74-years after their liberation It's been 74 years since the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated by British troops during World War Two and in Belfast, thousands of miles away, two of its survivors are mee…

Jerusalem (AFP) - Eyes brimming with tears, 92-year-old Melpomeni Dina Gianopoulou was reunited Sunday with Jewish siblings she had helped hide from Nazis in her native Greece during World War II. Holocaust survivor Sarah Yanai, 86, had tears in her eyes as …

Image copyrightChristoph Israng on Twitter (@velvyslanec_SRN)Image caption German ambassador Christoph Israng tweeted a picture of the mask Police are investigating the sale of Adolf Hitler masks at a shop in the capital of the Czech Republic, local media …