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Survivors Strive To Ensure Young Do Not Forget Auschwitz
Auschwitz has become a byword for Nazi Germany's grim murder of six million European Jews in World War II.
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French Holocaust Denier Faces Extradition From UK
A prominent French Holocaust denier, who fled the country after being convicted under anti-Nazi laws, can be extradited back to France, a Scottish court ruled on Thursday.
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Like Anne Frank, Polish Girl Kept War Diary. It Remained Locked For Years
As the Nazis strengthened their grip on Europe in 1939, Renia Spiegel, a 14-year-old Jewish girl in Poland, turned to a new companion. "Today, my dear Diary, is the beginning of our deep friendship," she wrote on Jan. 31 that year. For more than three years, Renia documented her life in more than 650 handwritten and densely filled pages.
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Europe's New Holocaust Museum Pits Jews Against One Another
A Hungarian museum built to remember the horrors of the Holocaust is pitting branches of the European Union's largest eastern Jewish community against one another.
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Jewish Documents Of Holocaust Hidden From Nazis, Soviets For Years Reveals Secrets
For decades, a confessional in a church in Lithuania's capital Vilnius kept a precious secret: a trove of documents offering an unprecedented glimpse into Jewish life in Eastern Europe before and during the Holocaust.
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Austria Likens Hungarian PM Orban's Refugee Policies to Nazi Deportations
Austria's Chancellor criticised Hungary for its handling of the refugee crisis on Saturday, likening the country's policies to Nazi deportations during the Holocaust as refugees complained of their treatment in the eastern European country.
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Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu Says Europe 'Learned Nothing' From Holocaust
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said Europeans appeared to have learned nothing from the Holocaust, after an EU court ordered the removal of Hamas from its terror blacklist.
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Poland Bids to Reclaim Forgotten Past as Haven for Jews
Poland, the country on whose soil Nazi Germany carried out the darkest acts of the Holocaust, is starting to re-connect with its other role in Jewish history, as a home for 1,000 years to one of the world's biggest Jewish communities.
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US Holocaust survivor meets Polish saviour 70 years on
A Jewish boy who hid from the Nazis in a hayloft reunited after 70 years in New York on Wednesday with the Polish son whose parents risked everything to save him.
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US finds long-lost diary of top Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler aide
The US government has recovered 400 pages from the long-lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a confidant of Adolf Hitler who played a central role in the extermination of millions of Jews and others during World War Two.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel to open Berlin Holocaust memorial for Roma
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will inaugurate a memorial to murdered Roma and Sinti victims of the Nazis on Wednesday, as Europe's largest minority grapples with ongoing discrimination.
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Survivors Strive To Ensure Young Do Not Forget Auschwitz
Auschwitz has become a byword for Nazi Germany's grim murder of six million European Jews in World War II.
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French Holocaust Denier Faces Extradition From UK
A prominent French Holocaust denier, who fled the country after being convicted under anti-Nazi laws, can be extradited back to France, a Scottish court ruled on Thursday.
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Like Anne Frank, Polish Girl Kept War Diary. It Remained Locked For Years
As the Nazis strengthened their grip on Europe in 1939, Renia Spiegel, a 14-year-old Jewish girl in Poland, turned to a new companion. "Today, my dear Diary, is the beginning of our deep friendship," she wrote on Jan. 31 that year. For more than three years, Renia documented her life in more than 650 handwritten and densely filled pages.
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Europe's New Holocaust Museum Pits Jews Against One Another
A Hungarian museum built to remember the horrors of the Holocaust is pitting branches of the European Union's largest eastern Jewish community against one another.
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Jewish Documents Of Holocaust Hidden From Nazis, Soviets For Years Reveals Secrets
For decades, a confessional in a church in Lithuania's capital Vilnius kept a precious secret: a trove of documents offering an unprecedented glimpse into Jewish life in Eastern Europe before and during the Holocaust.
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Austria Likens Hungarian PM Orban's Refugee Policies to Nazi Deportations
Austria's Chancellor criticised Hungary for its handling of the refugee crisis on Saturday, likening the country's policies to Nazi deportations during the Holocaust as refugees complained of their treatment in the eastern European country.
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Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu Says Europe 'Learned Nothing' From Holocaust
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said Europeans appeared to have learned nothing from the Holocaust, after an EU court ordered the removal of Hamas from its terror blacklist.
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Poland Bids to Reclaim Forgotten Past as Haven for Jews
Poland, the country on whose soil Nazi Germany carried out the darkest acts of the Holocaust, is starting to re-connect with its other role in Jewish history, as a home for 1,000 years to one of the world's biggest Jewish communities.
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US Holocaust survivor meets Polish saviour 70 years on
A Jewish boy who hid from the Nazis in a hayloft reunited after 70 years in New York on Wednesday with the Polish son whose parents risked everything to save him.
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US finds long-lost diary of top Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler aide
The US government has recovered 400 pages from the long-lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg, a confidant of Adolf Hitler who played a central role in the extermination of millions of Jews and others during World War Two.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel to open Berlin Holocaust memorial for Roma
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will inaugurate a memorial to murdered Roma and Sinti victims of the Nazis on Wednesday, as Europe's largest minority grapples with ongoing discrimination.
