The organisation that handles claims on behalf of Jews who endured torture at the hands of the Nazis, said on Thursday (June 15) that Germany has agreed to extend another monetary support of $1.

Germany to extend $1.4 billion to Holocaust survivors across the world in 2024

Germany has agreed to extend $1.4 bn to holocaust survivors all over the world. This payment is scheduled to be made in 2024. Since 1952, the German authorities have been paying a form of reparations to Jews, who survived the horrors of the holocaust.

Germany to pay reparations to Jewish survivors in 2024 | World News | WION

A Torah scroll, which was able to survive the Holocaust and is seen as the latest approach to understanding the history of Jews in the Middle East by Israel and its Arab allies, was unveiled by a private museum on Saturday in the United Arab Emirates.

Torah scroll, which survived the Holocaust, unveiled by UAE museum

For the first time, the German parliament will focus on and talk about the people persecuted and killed for their sexuality under Nazi rule during its annual Holocaust memorial commemorations.

In a first, German parliament to commemorate LGBTQ victims of Nazi rule

Today, the world is observing International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It’s the day for the commemoration of victims of the Jewish genocide that took place during World War 2.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: History, theme, significance, everything you need to know

Artificial Intelligence is doing wonders for humanity. At the same time, it holds the promise of doing much more in the coming years. In one such case, an AI-based software is helping the survivors of the Holocaust to record their memories and share their stories on the day when the world's observing International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

AI software helps holocasut survivors tell their stories

Australian politician Dominic Perrottet apologised on Thursday (January 12) and said that he was "deeply ashamed" over wearing a Nazi uniform on his 21st birthday.

Australian politician apologises, says it was ‘terrible’ decision to wear Nazi uniform on 21st b’day party

An American actor, author, and comedian Whoopi Goldberg once again apologized for comments claiming that the holocaust was not about race. 67-year-old apologizes following online backlash.

EGOT Winner Whoopi Goldberg repeats holocaust slur

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Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas compared Israeli action against his people to '50 holocausts' during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Scholz later described the comments as 'outrageous' and 'disgusting'. Palki Sharma tells you more.

Gravitas: Palestine President compares Israeli action to holocaust

Call it poetic justice to even the scales after decades as a European Jew has reportedly become the owner of a wristwatch that once belonged to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler for a whopping amount of $1.

Do you know who bought Adolf Hitler's watch? A European Jew

A prominent Jewish community organisation on Tuesday (July 26) voiced alarm and concern over Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's remarks against creating " peoples of mixes race".

Holocaust survivors criticise Hungary's Orban over race remarks

In Poland, a mass grave with human ashes equivalent to around 8,000 people has been discovered near a former Nazi concentration camp. On Wednesday, the country's Institute of National Remembrance, which looks into atrocities done during the Nazi occupation of Poland and the communist era, said that the remains were discovered close to the Soldau concentration camp, now known as Dzialdowo, north of Warsaw.

Mass grave with remains of 8,000 discovered at a former Nazi Germany camp in Poland

Joe Biden is off to a "meme start" on his first visit to Israel during his Middle-East trip. The US President made another error in a speech in Israel, saying "honour of Holocaust" rather than "horror.

Watch| Slip of tongue? Biden asks to keep alive 'honour' of holocaust during Israel visit

The Vatican said it will release thousands of letters addressed to Pope Pius XII by the Jewish people in Europe during World War-II seeking help and requesting information to find family members held in Nazi concentration camps.

Vatican to publish letters from Jews to Pope Pius XII during World War-II

Are you a fan of the popular series 'Stranger Things' and planning to get a tattoo like one of its characters Eleven? You might just be glorifying a part of holocaust history.

Planning to get a tattoo like Eleven from 'Stranger Things'? You might be glorifying a dark part of history 

Russian invasion: Ukrainian Holocaust survivors find shelter in Israel

The Buchenwald Memorial foundation on Monday said that a 96-year-old man named Boris Romantschenko, who survived four Nazi concentration camps during World War II, was killed Friday by a Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

Russia-Ukraine conflict updates: Holocaust survivor dies in Russian bombing in Kharkiv

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Russia-Ukraine conflict: Holocaust survivor dies in Russian bombing in Kharkiv

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday (March 20) addressed Isreali parliament and urged the Jewish nation to abandon neutrality and support Ukraine which is being invaded by Russia.

Zelensky addresses Israel parliament, compares Russian invasion to Holocaust

Jewish groups and institutions around the world condemned a strike in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, in the area of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, where tens of thousands of Jews were killed by the Nazis in a two-day massacre during World War II.

Jewish groups condemn strike near Babyn Yar holocaust memorial

At 98, Lily Ebert is perhaps the oldest user of the video-sharing social network app, TikTok. However, unlike many influencers who post trivial videos on cars, life lessons and heartbreaks, Ebert uses the platform to describe the horrors of the Holocaust.

This 98-year-old Holocaust survivor uses TikTok to tell her story—and she’s a sensation

The earth outside the tiny village of Treblinka, in eastern Poland, still bears traces of the death camp the Nazis built there in 1942. Close to 925,000 Jews were slaughtered at Treblinka, making it the second-largest Jewish killing field in the world after Auschwitz.

Poland is distorting how we remember the Holocaust

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the world remembered millions of people, over six million of them, who were killed at the hands of the Nazi German regime in Europe during the second world war.

Holocaust memorial day: World commemorates victims

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