Holocaust Research

MUNICH, Germany: Holocaust survivors on Tuesday accused John Demjanjuk of exaggerating his health problems to try to derail his trial ahead of harrowing testimony on the horrors of the Sobibor Nazi death camp.  

In 2001, Demjanjuk was again put on trial – this time for having served as a guard at Sobibor and other Nazi concentration camps in Poland and Germany. He was convicted, and in 2004, his U.S. citizenship was once again revoked. A year later, he was ...  

NEW YORK (AP) | A Holocaust survivor and the Polish Christian who risked his life to save him are especially grateful this Thanksgiving season: The two men were reunited for the first time in 65 years. Joseph Bonder, 81, went to John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday afternoon to welcome Bronislaw Firuta, 83, from Wroclaw, Poland. "My dear, beloved Joseph, we both outlived Stalin and Hitler, and I can't believe we are here today...  

Manhattan, NY – A 79-year-old Holocaust survivor who runs a kosher cafe on Madison Avenue is suing his landlords for discrimination, claiming they illegally prevented him from selling his business while simultaneously depriving him of customers by walling him off with a decorative door. “My youth, my childhood were taken from me in World War II. [...]  

Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) takes place internationally each year on the 27th January, and over the past 9 years thousands of teachers and librarians have commemorated HMD in their  libraries and classrooms.  27th January 2010 marks a particularly poignant year as on this date 65 years ago, the largest Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated.Holocaust Memorial Day Trust are urging everyone in the UK to become part of The...  

BEVERLY HILLS, CA -- 11/20/09 -- A holocaust escapee, Estherleon Schwartz was four years old when her father tossed her over a barbed wire fence into the waiting arms of Swiss soldiers, uttering the words, "Save my daughter and she will always serv..  

  Holocaust survivor Eva Kor is sharing her story and her life lessons at a lecture at Kutztown University tonight. Kor survived horrific medical experiments at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. But Thursday night, she glazed over the torturous experience. She focuses instead on life lessons.   

Body language was the only language Joseph Bonder needed to say "thank you" to Bronislaw Firuta, when the two met at JFK International Airport under the bright light of camera flashes in a media room here.  

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A notorious Holocaust denier convicted of attacking Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel in an elevator has now set his sights on an 80-year-old Pembroke Pines, Fla., woman whose memoir recounts her ordeal in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.  

MARSHFIELD -- Eva Kor, 75, not only survived the horrors of the Holocaust concentration camp Auschwitz, but she also is a survivor of the medical experiments conducted by the notorious Dr. Josef Mengele.  

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - More than 60 years after the Holocaust, politicians, newspapers and television have warned about the growing influence of “Holocaust deniers,” who dispute that the policy pursued by the German government during the Second World War resulted in the killing of six million Jews, most of them in gas chambers.  

Under communism, Jewish suffering in the Holocaust generally was subsumed as part of overall suffering during World War II. Most Holocaust or World War II memorials in communist Europe even at death camps such as Auschwitz and Buchenwald honored generic  

A notorious Holocaust denier convicted of attacking Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel in an elevator has now set his sights on an 80-year-old Pembroke Pines woman whose memoir recounts her ordeal in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.  

WARSAW (AP) — The memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a Facebook page hoping that the popular social-neworking site will help it reach young people around the globe and engage them in discussions about the former Nazi death camp and the...  

Jerusalem-----September 20..... It is a sad day in Israel. A sad day for all Jews, Christians and other persecuted men, women and children who survived the European Holocaust. Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who helped track down Nazi war ...