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French president marks anniversary of Holocaust detentionsupdated: Sun Jul 22 2012 10:30:00

French President Francois Hollande paid tribute at a commemorative ceremony Sunday to thousands of Jewish people who were rounded up and detained in a Parisian cycling stadium by the Vichy government exactly 70 years ago.

Nazi war crimes suspect arrested in Hungaryupdated: Wed Jul 18 2012 10:47:00

An elderly man suspected of Nazi war crimes has been arrested in Hungary, prosecutors said Wednesday, after a worldwide Jewish rights organization discovered him living in Budapest.

Officials: Alleged Nazi war criminal found in Hungaryupdated: Mon Jul 16 2012 21:30:00

A worldwide Jewish rights organization is pushing Hungarian authorities to prosecute a man it claims is a Nazi war criminal, recently discovered in Budapest, Hungary, who allegedly sent more than 15,000 Jews to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944.

Memorial tourism bears witness to tragedy updated: Mon May 28 2012 11:58:00

The crowds continue to visit the dead.

Jewish group condemns remarks by leader of Greek far-right partyupdated: Tue May 15 2012 11:48:00

A Jewish group in Greece has condemned the leader of the extreme-right Golden Dawn party over comments he made about the Holocaust in a TV interview.

Technocracy to save Greece?updated: Tue May 15 2012 11:48:00

Greek president Karolos Papoulias proposes a technocratic government after coalition talks fail to produce anything.

Passer-by spotted emaciated Wisconsin girl; relatives chargedupdated: Tue Feb 21 2012 19:22:00

A Wisconsin man who stumbled across and alerted authorities to a young girl investigators say was kept in a basement, starved and sexually abused, said Tuesday she looked much younger than her 15 years -- "like she just came from Auschwitz."

Passerby finds 70 lb. teen on roadsideupdated: Tue Feb 21 2012 19:22:00

The stranger who rescued a malnourished teen lying on the side of the road speaks with CNN's Brooke Baldwin.

People.com: Rubino Romeo Salmoni, Real Life Inspiration for Life Is Beautiful, Diesupdated: Tue Jul 12 2011 13:51:00

Rubino Romeo Salmoni, who survived Hitler's horrors in Auschwitz, was 91

The top five political comic booksupdated: Mon May 23 2011 05:18:00

The word "comic" typically conjures up images of muscly men in colorful tights who possess superhuman powers.

3 men charged in Auschwitz sign theftupdated: Fri Nov 26 2010 11:32:00

Three people have been charged in last year's theft of the famous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, a prosecutor said Friday.

Hand-drawn "Ghetto" Monopolyupdated: Fri Nov 05 2010 13:21:00

CNN's Kevin Flower reports on an unofficial way that children in Nazi camps passed the time and kept hope alive.

Hand-drawn Monopoly recalls life in ghettoupdated: Fri Nov 05 2010 13:21:00

Micha and Dan Glass are not your ordinary Monopoly players.

On Islamic center, what would Pope John Paul do?updated: Fri Aug 27 2010 09:27:00

The late Pope John Paul II has been described as the inspiration for a possible compromise to the dispute over the proposed Islamic center and mosque in the World Trade Center vicinity -- that it be withdrawn and built elsewhere, much as the late pontiff had canceled plans for a convent near the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Protected by online anonymity, hate speech becomes an online mainstayupdated: Mon Aug 16 2010 20:26:00

"It's like building a Japanese garden at Pearl Harbor or a big swastika in Auschwitz."

U.S. pledges $15 million to preserve site of concentration campupdated: Sat Jul 03 2010 13:58:00

The United States will donate $15 million to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, pending congressional authorization and appropriations, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday.

Poland's Jewish revivalupdated: Fri Jul 02 2010 12:33:00

Poland has a history of anti-Semitism, but that's changing as it deals with its past. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports.

Gaza convoy tapes edited, Israel acknowledgesupdated: Sun Jun 06 2010 18:47:00

Israel acknowledged Sunday that it edited recordings of what it said were anti-Semitic and anti-American radio calls by pro-Palestinian activists who tried to run the Gaza blockade and that it could not identify the origin of the broadcasts.

Intriguing people for January 27, 2010updated: Wed Jan 27 2010 08:41:00

Steve Jobs The state of the union is ... digital. Apple is expected to release a wireless, multimedia touch-screen device Wednesday at an invitation-only event in San Francisco, California, according to blogs and news reports.

Liberating Auschwitzupdated: Wed Jan 27 2010 07:45:00

65 years later, a Russian soldier tells how he helped liberate Auschwitz death camp and its emaciated survivors.

Auschwitz liberator: Prisoners saved from hellupdated: Wed Jan 27 2010 07:45:00

Ivan Martynushkin is a rare surviving witness to the horrors of the Holocaust, and only one of a handful still living who liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.

Pope visits synagogue, calls for dialogueupdated: Sun Jan 17 2010 19:43:00

Pope Benedict XVI visited the main Jewish synagogue in Rome on Sunday, a trip that unfolded amid heightened tension between Catholics and Jews.

Holocaust symbol stolenupdated: Mon Dec 21 2009 10:56:00

Thieves steal infamous Auschwitz death camp sign bearing the cynical phrase 'arbeit macht frei' or 'work sets you free.'

5 arrested as Auschwitz sign recoveredupdated: Mon Dec 21 2009 10:56:00

Police in Poland have recovered the infamous sign stolen from the front gate of the Auschwitz concentration camp and arrested five men, they announced Monday.

Nazi sign stolen from Auschwitz gatesupdated: Mon Dec 21 2009 10:16:00

A sign synonymous with the Nazi work camps of World War II was stolen overnight from the Auschwitz Concentration Camp memorial in Poland, police said Friday.

New arrests made in killing of Auschwitz survivorupdated: Fri Aug 07 2009 15:05:00

Two additional suspects in the strangulation of an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor were arrested Friday, the Manhattan district attorney's office said.

In diary, shooting suspect shares despair, intent to killupdated: Wed Aug 05 2009 18:06:00

He felt lonely, said he hadn't had a girlfriend since 1984. He said his father didn't love him. And he detailed plans to kill young women.

Arrest made in death of Nazi concentration camp survivorupdated: Mon Aug 03 2009 13:10:00

A Bronx woman has been charged with murder and robbery in the death of an 89-year-old Nazi concentration camp survivor, and police said a man is still being sought in connection with the death.

Nazi concentration camp survivor, 90, found strangledupdated: Fri Jul 31 2009 20:52:00

A 90-year-old Holocaust survivor was found strangled Thursday in his Upper East Side apartment, a spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner said Friday.

Childhood friend recalls tragic diarist Anne Frankupdated: Fri Jun 12 2009 16:48:00

She told stories, flirted outrageously with boys and was constantly changing her hairstyle.

Pope: We should have Googled Holocaust bishopupdated: Sat Mar 14 2009 08:12:00

The pope has admitted making mistakes over the lifting of the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying bishop, saying the church will make much greater use of the Internet in the future to help avoid such controversies.

Holocaust denier strains Catholic-Jewish relationsupdated: Wed Feb 18 2009 15:56:00

The gray-haired bishop speaks haltingly at first, choosing his words with care. He pauses, stumbles, repeats himself, underlines words vocally for emphasis. But then he warms to his topic, and the words begin to flow freely.

German bishops say 'no room' for Holocaust denier in Catholicismupdated: Sun Feb 08 2009 07:32:00

Germany's Catholic bishops are calling for the expulsion of a bishop, recently brought back into the church by Pope Benedict XVI, after new reports that Richard Williamson denies the Holocaust.

The Screening Room's top 10 movie heroesupdated: Tue May 27 2008 08:03:00

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes -- from the gun-packing maverick who shoots first and asks questions later to the unlikely hero, blinking with surprise at his newly found ass-kicking skills.

Time.com: The Pope Prays at Ground Zeroupdated: Sun Apr 20 2008 18:00:00

In an unusually small gathering, the Pope offers a blessing and private comfort to victims and survivors of 9/11

Hollywood legend Charlton Heston dead at 84updated: Sun Apr 06 2008 06:49:00

Actor Charlton Heston died at his Beverly Hills home at the age of 84 Saturday, his family said.

Time.com: Formula One's 'Nazi' Sex Scandal updated: Fri Apr 04 2008 15:00:00

Max Mosley's curious S&M session has put him in the spotlight. His parents being celebrity Hitler fans doesn't help

Visiting sites of tragedy to touch history, ease grief updated: Mon Feb 25 2008 09:50:00

On a blustery January day, a few tourists gather at the spot where the World Trade Center once stood in New York City. In pictures, words and a roll call of the dead, an area of kiosks and signs near the eastern edge of the site recounts the events of September 11, 2001.

Silence made goldenupdated: Wed Sep 26 2007 15:58:00

Famed French mime artist Marcel Marceau has died at the age of 84. CNN's Emily Chang reports.

Hate charge for 'Nazi Nobel' callupdated: Thu Aug 23 2007 23:19:00

German police have charged the leader of a leading far-right political party with inciting racial hatred after he recommended Adolf Hitler's former deputy for the Nobel peace prize.

Time.com: Vacationing at Auschwitzupdated: Fri Jun 22 2007 17:40:00

As more tourists spend their vacations at sites of disaster and depravity, a former war correspondent offers a word of caution

Suspect named in attack on Nobel laureateupdated: Fri Feb 16 2007 21:30:00

Police issued an arrest warrant Friday for a New Jersey man suspected of roughing up Nobel laureate and Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel at a San Francisco hotel earlier this month.

Ballerina sparks anti-fascist rowupdated: Fri Jan 12 2007 09:59:00

Anti-fascist protesters demonstrated outside a London theater on Friday, shouting noisy slogans against a ballet dancer who belongs to a far-right political party.

Auschwitz on pope's Polish visitupdated: Thu May 25 2006 03:01:00

Pope Benedict XVI has begun a bittersweet trip to Poland, where he will pay homage to the late Pope John Paul II, and his beloved predecessor's homeland.

Sharon: Never forget Nazi killersupdated: Thu May 05 2005 09:50:00

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has told thousands at a march in Poland recalling the Holocaust to "always remember the victims and never forget the murderers."

Couple accused of torturing childrenupdated: Thu Feb 03 2005 23:30:00

A manhunt has been launched in Florida for a couple accused of torturing five of seven children in their home, including pulling out their toenails with pliers and keeping them so malnourished that they "looked like pictures from Auschwitz," authorities said Thursday.

Playing in the Auschwitz cabaretupdated: Tue Feb 01 2005 07:11:00

Max Garcia, a retired San Francisco architect, doesn't need an anniversary to remind him of Auschwitz.

Soviet liberator recalls Auschwitzupdated: Tue Feb 01 2005 06:44:00

Ivan Martinooshkin led 50 machine gunners from Moscow to Auschwitz. It took more than a year.

'I was a guinea pig for Mengele'updated: Mon Jan 31 2005 06:57:00

As she recounts her story 60 years later, 70-year-old Eva Kor says it's as if she's back at Auschwitz with her twin sister, Miriam. The pain and horror are still very real.

How my mother survived Auschwitzupdated: Mon Jan 31 2005 06:50:00

Among the few child surviors of Auschwitz was an 11-year-old girl, Rena Marguilies -- my mother.

Surviving Auschwitz with Brahmsupdated: Mon Jan 31 2005 06:25:00

For some prisoners at Auschwitz, each note, each chord, every soaring crescendo of Brahms served as protection from the gas chambers.

Leaders, survivors mark Auschwitz liberationupdated: Thu Jan 27 2005 06:19:00

World leaders have joined elderly Holocaust survivors in Poland to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz.

Barber to the SS, witness to the Holocaustupdated: Wed Jan 26 2005 07:25:00

Joszf Paczynski remembers the day in 1942 when he saw a group of fellow prisoners at Auschwitz being gassed and cremated.

Keeping France's dark history aliveupdated: Tue Jan 25 2005 12:37:00

On a gray day, French high school students are learning about a dark heritage.

A bleak, hopeless landscapeupdated: Tue Jan 25 2005 09:25:00

It looked just as it does in all the photos and films I've seen about Auschwitz. And the winds that blew across the fields, and the dusting of snow that fell the night before made the camp seem even starker than I'd imagined.

Surviving the horror of Auschwitzupdated: Sun Jan 23 2005 13:39:00

Adam Koenig was one of eight siblings in a Jewish family.

The deadly medicine of the Holocaustupdated: Fri Apr 23 2004 17:47:00

In the infancy of a wicked regime, the very first year of Adolf Hitler's dictatorship, the new German chancellor signed a chilling mandate: the law for the prevention of genetically diseased offspring.

EU urged to fight anti-Semitismupdated: Thu Feb 19 2004 08:40:00

Jewish and European leaders have called for concrete action to combat a resurgence of the "monster" of anti-Semitism on the continent.

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