Seventy years have passed since the horrific days in the beginning of November, 1941, when 17,500 innocent people were murdered.

Germany on Wednesday marked the 73rd anniversary of the Nazi pogrom that paved the way to the Holocaust with solemn ceremonies throughout the country and the opening of a new synagogue.

Seventy years ago the lives of 16,000-20,000 Jews of Mariupol ended in a trench located near the village of Agrobaza.

A memorial event marking 70 years since the murder of the Jews in Ukraine, including the massacres at Babi Yar and adjacent areas, will be held at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Thursday.

Top Ukrainian and Israeli officials paid tribute Monday to tens of thousands of Jews shot by the Nazis in Kiev 70 years ago in one of the Holocaust's deadliest massacres.

Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the BND, deliberately misled authorities hunting for Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, the weekly Der Spiegel said in a report published Saturday.

A recent event marked the 70 year anniversary since the day that Nazi occupiers and Romanian collaborators began to engage in the mass murder of Jews in the Nikolaev region. In this region, more than 200,000 Jews from Nikolaev, Odessa and Moldova were murdered.

Canada has taken a first step toward building a Holocaust Memorial near the federal capital, Ottawa, officials said Wednesday.

Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the BND, said that it shredded in the 1990s files relating to Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, confirming a report on Spiegel's online edition.

An American Orthodox Jewish man reportedly bought the diaries of notorious Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele in a controversial auction.