A fire that broke out overnight has destroyed a wooden barracks filled with the shoes of victims of the Majdanek Nazi death camp, in Lublin, eastern Poland, officials said.
Israeli President Shimon Peres will visit Croatia this week where he will pay tribute to the victims of a notorious World War II concentration camp, the presidency said on Wednesday.
The United States plans to contribute 15 million dollars to help preserve the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday in Krakow.
Survivors, relatives and government officials Wednesday honoured the memory of hundreds of French Jews who were killed by Nazi Germany in Estonia during the Holocaust.
Marta Rosenberg, an heiress to the widow of Oskar Schindler, has filed a lawsuit against the New York art dealer Gary Zimet in order to stop the US$ 2.2 million sale of a copy of ‘Schindler’s List’.
The German foreign ministry will give $3 million over the next four years to the Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History, to allow the groups to catalog new historical information about survivor refugees from Nazi Germany.
