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Pro-Palestinian rally at Buchenwald memorial shut down by German authorities

The rally was slated for April 12, marking the 81st anniversary of Buchenwald’s liberation by US troops. But the city of Weimar said on Monday it would ban the event on the memorial grounds.

A visitor stands in front of a watchtower behind a fence on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar
A portrait of Friedrich Torberg, Jan. 1, 1970.

A lost novel from 1943 that predicted the Holocaust has been recovered

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators wear keffiyeh at a protest to condemn the interception of the vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla, in Rome, Italy, October 1, 2025.

Anti-Zionist group plans keffiyeh protest amid Buchenwald camp's ban on pro-Palestinian symbols

A recreated train car stands as a memorial at the former loading ramp in Bergen-Belsen, Germany, April 15, 2015.

Deutsche Bahn’s new rail plan cannot be allowed to erase a vital Holocaust memory site - opinion


Setting the record straight on Ustasha Holocaust crimes - opinion

Given the general ignorance about the horrors of Jasenovac, I think it would be helpful to very briefly describe one of its commanders, to give insight into the type of people who built and ran it.

Victims of the Nazi-backed Ustasha regime killed at the end of the World War II lay on the ground surrounded by Ustasha soldiers near the Sava River in Croatia in 1945.

Poland 'reexamining' Israeli student trips to concentration camps

The Polish deputy foreign minister said the country would announce its next steps concerning the squabble with Israel.

Cards are placed between railway tracks in the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz as people take part in the annual "March of the Living" to commemorate the Holocaust, in Oswiecim, Poland, April 12, 2018.

Secret documents leaked about concentration camps on British islands

The Channel Islands were conquered by the Nazis in 1940 after then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made the decision that they were of little strategic importance.

As part of the Atlantic Wall, between 1940 and 1945 the occupying German forces and the Organisation Todt constructed fortifications around the coasts of the Channel Islands such as this observation tower at Battery Moltke, Jersey

The shared history of anti-Jewish and anti-Asian hate

Japanese-American soldiers also rescued thousands of survivors of a Nazi death march nearby, caring for them until medical personnel could arrive.

WITNESSING THE destruction of the last hut at Bergen-Belsen two days after the concentration camp was finally evacuated, May 1945.

Germany won’t prosecute former concentration camp guard deported from US

German prosecutors said they had insufficient evidence to prosecute the 95-year-old man for the suspicion of involvement in Nazi war crimes.

Guard tower at Stutthof concentration camp

Writing poetry helps me process the unspeakable evils of the Holocaust

The poems written by Sutzkever and other poets in the ghettos and even in the Nazi death and concentration camps were their way of refusing to become dehumanized.

VISITORS WALK along the railway track at the main gate of the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp.

Canada's parliament motion says China's treatment of Uighurs is genocide

"We can no longer ignore this. We must call it for what it is — a genocide," Conservative lawmaker Michael Chong said.

Ethnic Uighur demonstrators take part in a protest against China, in Istanbul, Turkey October 1, 2020.

Google Doodle honors Fredy Hirsch, Zionist educator who saved Holocaust youth

He saved the lives of many Jewish children and provided many others with a glimpse of confidence and dignity in the hardest circumstances the world had ever known.

TEACHER AND Zionist youth movement leader Fredy Hirsch, who ran the children’s block in Auschwitz-Birkenau

German prosecutors charge 100-year-old former concentration camp guard

Prosecutors and court officials in Neuruppin, where the charges were brought, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

THE FORMER Nazi concentration camp in Sachsenhausen on the 75th anniversary of its liberation by Soviet and US troops, during the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) near Berlin, Germany, on April 17.

Nazi secretary at Stutthof camp charged for role in 10,000 murders

As the woman was under 18 when she served at the camp, she will be charged at a juvenile court.

'Death Gate' at Stutthof Concentration Camp