January 27 is marked as a Holocaust Remembrance Day across the globe. A day to honour and remember 6 million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis in World War 2. The day marks the liberation of the Auschwitz prisoners by the soviet army in 1945.

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Remembering the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust

January 27 is celebrated as a Holocaust Remembrance Day across the globe. A day to honour and remember 6 million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis in World War 2. The day marks the liberation of the Auschwitz prisoners by the soviet army in 1945.

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Remembering the 6 million Jews killed in Holocaust

Maus, which is a Pulitzer prize-winning graphic novel about the holocaust, has been banned by a Tennessee school board in the US. This happened after a total of 10 board members unanimously agreed in favour of removing the novel from the curriculum, citing its use of phrases like “God Damn” and the image of a nude woman.

This is why a US-based school board has banned Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust novel

Naor Gilon, Israel's envoy to India, has said "there is no anti-Semitism in India; this phrase doesn't just exist" as both sides begin official celebrations of the establishment of diplomatic ties 30 years ago.

No anti-semitism in India, says Israel's Envoy to India Naor Gilon

The mysteries around the betrayal of Anne Frank, might have been solved. A Jewish notary has been identified as the 'prime suspect' who betrayed the teen diarist and her family to the Nazis. Frank, who died aged 15, was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage and emerged as one of the most discussed victims of the Holocaust. Anne and her sister died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Anne became popular posthumously with the 1947 publication of 'The Diary of a Young Girl'. She documented her life while in hiding from 1942 to 1944. The diary became one of the most haunting accounts of the Holocaust.

Was Anne Frank betrayed? How Nazis found her hiding place in 1944

The conspiracies and mysteries around one of the most famous incidents of World War II , namely the betrayal of Anne Frank, might have been solved. A Jewish notary has been identified as the 'prime suspect' who betrayed the teen diarist and her family to the Nazis.

Who betrayed Anne Frank to the Nazis? Surprise suspect 'identified' after 77 years

A court in Holland has banned a right-wing political leader from comparing coronavirus restrictions to the Holocaust on social media. The ban came after legal action by World War 2 survivors and Jewish organisations.

Court punishes Dutch MP for comparing Covid restrictions to Holocaust

Bernard Krutz, holocaust survivor who was hidden as a toddler during the war and was then adopted by a Polish Jewish family after the war, didn’t remember his parents or his family name. However, DNA testing helped him find his cousin. Watch this miraculous story of this holocaust survivor.

Holocaust survivor Bernard Krutz finds lost cousin after 73 years

Local police reported a case of vandalism as two swastikas had been painted on a synagogue near Tel Aviv in the city of Bnei Brak. Israel’s Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, denounced the vandalism act and called it a "grave act of hatred".

'Grave act of hatred': Israel PM denounces painting of swastikas on synagogues

On the eve of the Tokyo Games, organisers fired the director of the opening ceremony over a joke he made about the Holocaust, while media reported former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a staunch advocate for the Tokyo Games, would skip the showpiece event.

Olympics-Opening ceremony director fired over Holocaust joke on Games eve

The Tokyo Organising Committee stated Thursday that Kentaro Kobayashi, the director of the Olympics opening ceremony, has been removed from his position following news reports concerning his past statements about the Holocaust.

Director of Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony ousted over past comments on Holocaust

Sidestepping a roaring waterfall and stumbling over rocks, an Austrian amateur theatre group re-enacts the treacherous Alpine escape of thousands of Jews seeking a new home after the Holocaust.

In the Austrian Alps, post-Holocaust escape is re-enacted

During his Independence Day speech to the armed forces of the former Soviet republic, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed as Europe's last dictator, said that Jews 'controlled the world' and managed to force the world to remember the Holocaust.

World bows to Jews, says Belarusian President Lukashenko in anti-Semitic outburst

The Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene has apologised for equating the mandatory wearing of safety masks in the US House of Representatives to the horrors of the Holocaust.

US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene compares COVID-19 masks to Holocaust, apologises

Roman Polanski revisits the "horror" of his Holocaust childhood in a new documentary that premiered Sunday in the controversial Oscar-winning director's Polish hometown of Krakow.

Roman Polanski revisits Holocaust boyhood in new film

Roman Kent, who as an orphaned teenager endured the horrors of Auschwitz and other hellish camps and later channeled his sorrow and rage into helping to lead an American movement to memorialize the Holocaust and provide reparations for aging Jewish survivors, died Friday at his home in Manhattan.

Roman Kent, who reminded the world of the Holocaust, dies at 92

April 26 in history: Worst nuclear disaster in history occurs in Chernobyl and more

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that Western governments should treat the people who insult the Prophet the same as those who deny the Holocaust, reported the Pakistani newspaper, Dawn.

Insulting Prophet should be same as denying Holocaust: Imran Khan

A top commander in Hitler’s secret police, responsible for deporting tens of thousands of Jews, was shielded by US and German authorities after World War II and later joined West Germany’s foreign intelligence service, which knew about his wartime role, newly disclosed records reveal.

He led Hitler’s secret police in Austria. Then he spied for the West.

A year spent hiding at home from the coronavirus has given Anne Bertolino, 96, a lot of time to dwell on the past: the anti-Semitic abuse she suffered on the streets of Hamburg, Germany, as a child; the grandparents who pushed for her and her sister to leave the country for their own safety; and her mother, a widow who was killed in Auschwitz.

The push to vaccinate 20,000 Holocaust survivors in New York

French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot has announced that the country will return a masterpiece by Gustav Klimt to the heirs of its owner, more than 80 years after she was forced to sell it in the Nazi era.

France to return Klimt painting looted by Nazis to Holocaust victim

A French Holocaust survivor battling with an American university over a painting by Camille Pissarro that was stolen by the Nazis went to court in Paris on Tuesday to try block the university from suing her for millions of dollars.

French Holocaust survivor battling with US university over Nazi-looted painting

Holocaust Remembrance Day: A look at Israel's hidden memorial

Emanuele Filiberto, the descendent of Italy'w wartime king Victor Emmanuel III apologised to country's Jewish community for monarchy's role in Holocaust. "I condemn the 1938 racial laws, all of whose weight I still feel on my shoulders to this day, and with me the whole royal house," 48-year-old Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy said of his great-grandfather.

Italian king's heir apologises for monarchy's role in Holocaust during second world war

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