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.
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.
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.
The crowds continue to visit the dead.
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.
Greek president Karolos Papoulias proposes a technocratic government after coalition talks fail to produce anything.
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."
The stranger who rescued a malnourished teen lying on the side of the road speaks with CNN's Brooke Baldwin.
Rubino Romeo Salmoni, who survived Hitler's horrors in Auschwitz, was 91
The word "comic" typically conjures up images of muscly men in colorful tights who possess superhuman powers.
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.
CNN's Kevin Flower reports on an unofficial way that children in Nazi camps passed the time and kept hope alive.
Micha and Dan Glass are not your ordinary Monopoly players.
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compromise to the dispute over the proposed Islamic center and mosque in the World Trade Center vicinity -- that it be withdrawn and built elsewhere, much as the late pontiff had canceled plans for a convent near the Auschwitz concentration camp.
"It's like building a Japanese garden at Pearl Harbor or a big swastika in Auschwitz."
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 has a history of anti-Semitism, but that's changing as it deals with its past. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports.
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.
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.
65 years later, a Russian soldier tells how he helped liberate Auschwitz death camp and its emaciated survivors.
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 Benedict XVI visited the main Jewish synagogue in Rome on Sunday, a trip that unfolded amid heightened tension between Catholics and Jews.
Thieves steal infamous Auschwitz death camp sign bearing the cynical phrase 'arbeit macht frei' or 'work sets you free.'
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.
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.
Two additional suspects in the strangulation of an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor were arrested Friday, the Manhattan district attorney's office said.
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.
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.
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.
She told stories, flirted outrageously with boys and was constantly changing her hairstyle.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In an unusually small gathering, the Pope offers a blessing and private comfort to victims and survivors of 9/11
Actor Charlton Heston died at his Beverly Hills home at the age of 84 Saturday, his family said.
Max Mosley's curious S&M session has put him in the spotlight. His parents being celebrity Hitler fans doesn't help
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.
Famed French mime artist Marcel Marceau has died at the age of 84. CNN's Emily Chang reports.
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.
As more tourists spend their vacations at sites of disaster and depravity, a former war correspondent offers a word of caution
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
Max Garcia, a retired San Francisco architect, doesn't need an anniversary to remind him of Auschwitz.
Ivan Martinooshkin led 50 machine gunners from Moscow to Auschwitz. It took more than a year.
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.
Among the few child surviors of Auschwitz was an 11-year-old girl, Rena Marguilies -- my mother.
For some prisoners at Auschwitz, each note, each chord, every soaring crescendo of Brahms served as protection from the gas chambers.
World leaders have joined elderly Holocaust survivors in Poland to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz.
Joszf Paczynski remembers the day in 1942 when he saw a group of fellow prisoners at Auschwitz being gassed and cremated.
On a gray day, French high school students are learning about a dark heritage.
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.
Adam Koenig was one of eight siblings in a Jewish family.
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.
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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