Germany has doubled its share of a fund to preserve the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to €120 million euros, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Tuesday.
Seventy-five years after the
liberation of Auschwitz, a dwindling number of elderly Holocaust survivors gathered at the former German Nazi death camp on Monday to honour its more than 1.1 million mostly Jewish victims and to share their alarm over rising anti-semitism.
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday said acknowledging Nazi crimes was part of Germany's national identity in a
message aimed at far right calls for a shift away from a culture of remembrance.
Germany's Angela Merkel crossed the
gates of the former Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland on Friday for the
first time in her 14 years as chancellor, promising to battle a new wave of
anti-Semitism.
Leon Schwarzbaum is one of the last survivors of Auschwitz -- the Nazi death camp that Chancellor Angela Merkel will be
visiting for the first time on Friday.
Angela Merkel will visit the Auschwitz death camp in Poland on Friday for the first time in her 14 years as chancellor, as Germany grapples with a resurgence of anti-Semitism.
A museum slammed US e-commerce giant Amazon for selling Christmas ornaments with images of the Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, calling them inappropriate.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will pay her first visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau next Friday, her spokeswoman said, ahead of the 75th anniversary commemorations for the liberation of the Nazi death camp.
Netflix on Thursday said it would add
information to a Holocaust documentary on Nazi German death camps that Poland
said "rewrites history" because it features an "incorrect" map.
Kazimierz Albin, the last survivor of the
first convoy of prisoners sent by the Nazis to the Auschwitz death camp has
died at the age of 96, the camp museum said on Tuesday.
Eva Mozes Kor, a survivor of Auschwitz and the death camp's infamous doctor Josef Mengele, has passed away in Poland during a trip to the Holocaust site, sources said.
Survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp, now in their 90s, are still working tirelessly to ensure their first-hand testimonies are passed on to younger generations.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Friday paid homage to victims of the Holocaust at the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, a day after he accused Iranian authorities of plotting a "new Holocaust".
Heiko Maas (SPD) became the first German Foreign Minister in 26 years to visit the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Monday ahead of a meeting with his Polish counterpart.
The President of Germany’s Jewish Central Council Josef Schuster has launched a scathing attack on the far-right AfD, criticising the party’s position on Holocaust remembrance and questioning their democratic credentials.
Germany's jailed "Nazi grandma" Ursula Haverbeck, 89, on Friday lost a challenge before the country's highest court, which reaffirmed that constitutional free speech guarantees do not cover Holocaust denial.
Documents from the post-war Auschwitz trial have been classed part of the UNESCO "Memory of the World Register", underlining their significance as "common heritage of humanity", Germany's foreign minister said Wednesday.
German police Monday located and arrested an 89-year-old grandmother convicted on several occasions for Holocaust denial, after she failed to turn herself in to begin serving her prison sentence.
German prosecutors brought charges
Monday against a 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard, accusing him of abetting murder in the latest 11th-hour attempt to use the criminal justice system to
address the Holocaust.
On Saturday Germany is reflecting upon the genocide and atrocities of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime with ceremonies around the country and beyond. This year politicians and organizations have cautioned against renewed anti-Semitism.
A former Nazi SS guard known as the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz, 96, lost his final legal challenge against being jailed when Germany's highest court Friday rejected his appeal.
A former Nazi SS guard known as the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz, now 96, has filed a challenge against his jail sentence, his lawyer said on Tuesday, arguing that imprisonment would violate his "right to
life".
