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Clarification: Italy-Pope-Holocaust story
ROME - In a story June 21, The Associated Press referred to Auschwitz as a death camp in Poland. The story should have explained that Auschwitz was a Nazi-run death camp in German-occupied Poland.
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Queen Elizabeth II begins state visit to Germany
BERLIN - Queen Elizabeth II began a state visit to Germany on Tuesday that will include her first trip to a former Nazi concentration camp.
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Queen meets survivors, liberators of former Nazi camp
BERLIN - Queen Elizabeth II concluded her three-day state visit to Germany on Friday with a somber visit to Bergen-Belsen, the first former Nazi concentration camp she has visited.
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Report: World Jewish population nears pre-Holocaust level
JERUSALEM - The world's Jewish population has grown to be nearly as large as it was before the Holocaust, an Israeli think tank said in its annual report Sunday.
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Nicholas Winton, savior of Jewish children, dies at 106
LONDON - He was just a 29-year-old clerk at the London Stock Exchange when he faced the challenge of a lifetime. Traveling with a friend to Czechoslovakia in 1938, as the drums of impending war echoed...
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Szabad, Hungary's first post-Soviet parliament chief, dies
BUDAPEST, Hungary - Gyorgy Szabad, a historian who survived forced labor during the Holocaust to become the speaker of Hungary's first post-communist Parliament, has died at age 90.
View ArticleJewish officials protest art installation at Polish museum
WARSAW, Poland - Jewish officials are furious over a video installation at a Polish museum that shows naked men and women playing a game of tag in a gas chamber.
View ArticleReview: From Holocaust survivor to Medal of Honor recipient
"Single Handed" (Berkley), by Daniel M. Cohen
View ArticleSchool to pay $4.5M settlement to bullied Jewish students
WHITE PLAINS, New York - A federal judge approved a $4.5 million settlement between an upstate New York school district and five Jewish students who say they endured years of abuse by classmates who...
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Jewish group honors Christian Poles who rescued Jews in WWII
WARSAW, Poland - Jewish officials honored nearly 50 elderly Christian Poles who saved Jews during World War II, praising them as heroes during an event in Warsaw on Sunday organized as an expression of...
View ArticleEXCHANGE: Holocaust survivor speaks about faith, strength
FREEPORT, Illinois - The last time Alexandra Goode saw her father was a day he had taken her to school. The year was 1941 and her family was living in Yugoslavia. That day, the German army invaded her...
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Former Auschwitz guard, 94, convicted as accessory to murder
LUENEBURG, Germany - Oskar Groening confessed during his trial to feeling "moral guilt" for serving as an SS sergeant at Auschwitz. On Wednesday, a court ruled that he was guilty of being an accessory...
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Remains of victims of Nazi experiments found in France
PARIS - It started with a letter, a brief reference to samples taken from the bodies of Holocaust victims used in Nazi medical research. Decades later, the jars and test tubes found behind a glass...
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Remains of victims of Nazi experiments found in France
PARIS - It started with a letter, a brief reference to samples taken from the bodies of Holocaust victims used in Nazi medical research. Decades later, the jars and test tubes found behind a glass...
View ArticleRomania bans Holocaust denial, fascist symbols
BUCHAREST, Romania - Romania's president has signed into law legislation that punishes Holocaust denial and the promotion of the fascist Legionnaires' Movement with prison sentences of up to three years.
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Review: 'Phoenix' a masterful postwar drama set in Berlin
Out of the ashes of summer moviegoing emerges a masterpiece.
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Obama calls GOP criticism of Iran deal 'ridiculous,' 'sad'
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - President Barack Obama unleashed a blistering and belittling rebuke of Republican White House hopefuls Monday, calling their attack on his landmark nuclear deal with Iran...
View ArticleMunich council upholds ban on Holocaust 'stumbling stones'
BERLIN - Munich's city council has refused to lift a ban on so-called "stumbling stones," tiny plaques embedded in sidewalks to commemorate Holocaust victims outside their former homes, which are a...
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Ohio State marching band song made fun of Holocaust victims
COLUMBUS, Ohio - An unofficial marching band song that made fun of Holocaust victims is the type of thing Ohio State University has pledged to eradicate from the band program, the university said...
View ArticleGypsies' plight emphasized on Roma Holocaust Day
BUDAPEST, Hungary - Europe's top human right official drew attention to the abuses and discrimination faced by the Roma minority as Europe commemorated the tens of thousands of Gypsies killed during...
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