Switzerland approves its first national memorial honoring victims of the Holocaust

The Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities umbrella group says that until now there have been only small, private sites dedicated to 'the numerous Swiss victims of persecution'

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Unseen Kristallnacht photos published 84 years after Nazi pogrom

Images released by Israeli Holocaust memorial show Hitler’s regime clearly orchestrating 1938 atrocity

Two Holocaust memorials smeared with antisemitic, pro-Russian slurs

"The Ponary massacre" took place between 1941 and 1944 near the railway station at Ponary (now Paneriai), About 100,000 Jews, Poles and Russians, were murdered.

Debut novel by ‘Russian Proust’ to be published in English for the first time

The translation of Deceit by ‘groundbreaking’ author Yuri Felsen, who died in Auschwitz in 1943, is set to come out next May

Anti-Semitic graffiti discovered by staff at Auschwitz death camp

Wooden barracks at the death camp were spray-painted with English and German phrases.

Ukraine's forgotten 'Holocaust by Bullets'

The country is still grappling with how to remember one of the worst massacres of World War Two.

Olympics opening ceremony director sacked for Holocaust joke

The decision to remove Kentaro Kobayashi comes a day before the opening show is due to be held.

Bones discovered on FU campus: all evidence points to Auschwitz

Could the remains be those of victims of death camp doctor Josef Mengele? Very likely. The Free University's leadership is blocking further excavations.

Ukraine unveils 'pop-up book' synagogue at site of Holocaust massacre

The Swiss-designed building is operated by a hand winch and has a painted ceiling of stars that echoes the sky on the night of the atrocity

How the Nazis used music to celebrate and facilitate murder

Music is supposed to transcend the mundane and horrific. Yet it has also served as an accompaniment to torture and punishment.

The Nazi in the family

He was a murderer who fled to the UK. But why didn't he face justice?

Stutthof Camp: Holocaust guard Harry S found unfit to stand trial at 96

The court says there is a "high degree of probability" Harry S is guilty and he must pay legal fees.

Friedrich Karl Berger: US deports ex-concentration camp guard to Germany

Friedrich Karl Berger, 95, worked at the Nazi Neuengamme camp during World War Two.