Heirs of Holocaust survivors have filed a lawsuit in Chicago against the Hungarian state railway company MÁV, demanding compensation for MÁV’s involvement in deporting Jews to the Nazi camps during World War II.

Elie Wiesel said he would not cry if the "pathologically sick" Iranian president was assassinated.

Israeli President Shimon Peres said the Kaddish prayer for the victims of the Holocaust during a speech in the German parliament.

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will mark International Holocaust Day today with a visit to the Auschwitz death camp, which was liberated by Soviet troops 65 years ago.

Events are taking place at Auschwitz to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, as the world marks Holocaust Memorial Day.

On January 27, the Moscow Jewish Community Center hosted a ceremony in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.

Marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, President Obama said the death camp invokes a "sacred duty" to remember Nazi crimes.

A survivor testifying at the war crimes trial of accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk said he did not recall seeing Demjanjuk at the camp.

Israel’s former chief rabbi and current chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel Meir Lau, has said in an interview with Italian television that Pope Benedict XVI should be welcomed.

John Demjanjuk's lawyer made a new attempt Tuesday to halt the 89-year-old's trial on charges that he was an accessory to the murder of thousands of Jews at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp.