Serbian President Boris Tadic on Sunday attended a memorial for the tens of thousands of mainly Serbs and Jews killed by Croatia's pro-Nazi Ustase regime during World War II.

Survivors and descendants of Jews killed during the Iasi pogrom in Romania on Tuesday attended ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of one of the worst single Holocaust massacres.

Brest marked the creation of a memorial to Holocaust victims, which was erected at the site of a mass grave of 350 Jews from Brest murdered by the Nazis during World War II.

An elderly former Dutch resistance worker confessed to murdering a suspected collaborator 65 years ago, only to find out years later her victim was in fact saving Jews from Nazi persecution, authorities said Thursday.

The man who typed up Oskar Schindler's list which helped save more than 1,000 Jews from the Nazis, Mietek Pemper, has died in Germany aged 91, the Bavarian city where he lived said Thursday.

US President Barack Obama on Friday honoured the Jews who fought and died in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against Nazi Germany, as he began a working visit to Poland.

Britain will contribute 2.1 million pounds (2.4 million euros, 3.4 million dollars) to help preserve the site of Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the British embassy in Poland said Thursday.

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre called on Acting Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme to remove Justice Minister Stefaan De Clerck who voiced support for an initiative to give amnesty to the country’s Nazi collaborators during WWII and suggested that it may behoove the government to ''forget'' its Nazi past.

Bavaria has refused to extradite a convicted Nazi war criminal back to the Netherlands, from where he broke out of jail in 1952, Germany's justice ministry said.

A leading Israeli Nazi-hunter has deplored the release of former death camp guard John Demjanjuk, hours after a German court convicted him of helping to kill at least 28,000 people.