Huffington Post report follows revelation that parents of Holocaust survivor and Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal were posthumously baptized, along with Mitt Romney's atheist father-in-law Edward Davies.
Some 22,000 Jewish people confined to ghettos under the Nazis during World War II are entitled to smaller pension payments than they initially claimed, a German federal court ruled Tuesday.
France's state-run railways said Friday it had handed over its digital copies of its archives for the period covering World War II, when it deported tens of thousands of Jews, to three Holocaust museums.
The governments of Israel and Germany will sign Wednesday an agreement whereby Germany will support Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial and Institute, to the sum of one million euro annually, from 2012-2021.
Romanian President Traian Basescu on Friday stressed the importance for his country to recognize its role in the Holocaust, on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The full text of the speech pronounced by the new President of the European Parliament, German Martin Schulz, at an event marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day - the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945- this week at the European Parliament in Brussels.
In 2012, Belgium assumes the presidency of the ''International Task Force for Holocaust Remembrance, Education and Research'', which defends democratic values through educational efforts against racism and anti-Semitism.
Turkish public television will show an epic French documentary about the Holocaust, the first broadcast of its kind by national media in a Muslim state, it was announced Wednesday.
The newly elected President of the European Parliament, German Martin Schulz, paid tribute to the memory of the six millions Jews who were killed in the Holocaust, during a special ceremony at the seat of the EU institution in Brussels.
