Israel passes controversial law defining itself as a state of the Jewish people
Critics fear this will spark discrimination against its Arab citizens, which make up 20% of the population.
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Critics fear this will spark discrimination against its Arab citizens, which make up 20% of the population.
His comments sparked global anger, with the United States, United Nations, European Union and others criticising them.
The measure must still pass the Senate before being signed by the president.
Critics called it a “profoundly obvious omission”.
Spokesperson Sean Spicer says the media is ‘nitpicking’
Elie Wiesel wrote tens of books and was a professor and Nobel Prize winner.
An Israeli NGO has filed a suit.
The Israeli leader stirred controversy by claiming a Palestinian leader gave Hitler the idea of exterminating Jews.
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Oskar Gröning looks like he could be a kindly grandfather. He probably is. But he also volunteered to serve in one of the greatest murder camps ever constructed.
The man had taken artefacts from the ancient city of Gamla in the Golan Heights in Israel.
The director was speaking to a group of Holocaust survivors in Poland today.
They were all buried today.
“We used to receive anonymous anti-Semitic letters. Now people sometimes send them with their name and address.”
That’s one of the findings from a worldwide survey on anti-Semitism.
Hearing of violence against Jewish community in Germany and Austria, English stockbroker Nicholas Winton organised transport of children to safety.
Seen as the start of the Holocaust, Kristallnacht took place across Germany 75 years ago tonight.
More than 90 per cent of Lithuania’s 200,000 pre-war Jews died at the hands of the Nazis and local collaborators during WWII.
The guards are aged up to 97 and face possible charges of accessory to murder.
For decades German courts only prosecuted Nazi war criminals if evidence showed they had personally committed atrocities, but since a 2011 landmark case all former camp guards can be tried.
The statue by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, depicts Adolf Hitler praying on his knees.
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Over 700 of the 2,100 Jews living in Norway at the start of World War II were deported, only 34 survived concentration camps.
Fund administrators and German officials say payments to Holocaust survivors are needed “more than ever” as they enter their final years.
The Belgian Prime Minister said the country has been “complicit in the most abominable crime” by deporting tens of thousands of Jewish people to Nazi concentration camps during the war.
The Turkish shampoo company brought Adolf Hitler back to life as a spokesperson for its “manly” products.
Sandor Kepiro, 97, has been acquitted of war crime charges related to the execution of 35 Serbs and Jews in Serbia in 1942.
The 50-year-old designer has said he intends to seek help for alcohol problems after being fired by the House of Dior and charged with making racist comments by French police.