Angela Merkel became Tuesday the first active German Chancellor to visit the former Nazi death camp in Dachau, located near Munich, where the Nazis killed more than 41,000 people before US troops liberated it in April 1945.
Nazi war crimes suspect Laszlo Csatary, who according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem had played a key role in the deportation of 15,700 Jews to Auschwitz, died while awaiting trial in a Hungarian hospital, his lawyer said Monday.
Israeli President Shimon Peres attended an official opening ceremony for a new museum dedicated to Latvia Righteous Gentiles in Riga Tuesday alongside his Latvian counterpart Andris Berzins.
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, recognized Lois Gunden, an American Mennonite who helped save Jewish children while in France during the Holocaust, as Righteous Among the Nations.
A new exhibition depicting through films the varying efforts taken by non-Jewish rescuers who came to the aid of persecuted Jews during the Holocaust, opened at Yad Vashem ’s Exhibitions Pavilion in Jerusalem.
