Holocaust

The two massacres in Texas and Ohio became the nation's latest mass shootings as defined by the Gun Violence Archive. Wochit, Wochit WASHINGTON  Former President Barack Obama responded Monday to back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio over the weeken…

Daniel Lubetzky, the billionaire founder of KIND, joins me on The Forbes Interview podcast to share how he turned a nut-based snack bar into a $2.7 billion food empire with annual sales topping $800 million.His background is fascinating. The son of Holocaust …

(PHNOM PENH, Cambodia) — Nuon Chea, the chief ideologue of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodians, died Sunday, the country’s U.N.-assisted genocide tribunal said. He was 93. Nuon Chea was known as Brother No. 2, the right…

For Bill Wilson, it's simple. He won't pay $1,000 for a smartphone. Period.  "I'll be hanging onto my iPhone 6 Plus until grim death," says the radio production manager from Gainesville, Georgia.  One grand "is just too much money for what you get." Wilson …

Records from the Holocaust and Nazi persecution have become more accessible, thanks to newly digitised archives. A joint initiative between Ancestry and the Arolsen Archives an international centre on Nazi persecution has resulted in the digitisation of milli…

Estonian MEP has demanded a final solution  for Syrian refugees who break the law in Europe, in an apparent echoing of the language used by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust.  Jaak Madison, an MEP for Estonias right-wing Conservative Peoples Party, made t…

The letters were sent from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, Qari Muhammad Asim MBE, Chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board and Senior Imam. In a sepa…

Oswiecim (Poland) (AFP) - Roma and Jewish Holocaust survivors gathered at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Friday to mark 75 years since a massacre of Roma and Sinti people at the twin German death camps. Survivors also paid homage to some 500,000 others the Nazis kill…

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) American civil rights activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson prayed and mourned at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Friday as he joined survivors paying homage to an often forgotten genocide that of the Roma people on a key 75th anniversary. In addition …

The idea of paying reparations for slavery is gaining momentum in the United States, despite being long derided as an unrealistic plan, to compensate for state violence committed by and against people long dead. The topic saw substantive debate in the July 3…