Holocaust survivor Marian Turski dies aged 98
Holocaust survivor Marian Turski, who became a journalist in Poland and headed an international committee of Auschwitz survivors, has died at the age of 98, said the Polish weekly magazine Polityka, ...
Letter shows Pope Pius XII probably knew about Holocaust early on
Wartime Pope Pius XII knew details about the Nazi attempt to exterminate Jews in the Holocaust as early as 1942, according to a letter found in the Vatican archives that conflicts ...
US and EU slam Palestinian president’s remarks on Holocaust
The United States and the European Union on Thursday criticised remarks about the World War Two persecution of Jews and antisemitism by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
In a statement, the ...
Cyprus and Israel are inextricably linked says defence minister
The 2,000 Israeli babies born in Cyprus after the World War II created an umbilical link between the two countries, Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides said on Thursday.
The minister was speaking ...
Defence minister commemorates 73 years since closure of Jewish detention camps
A monument dedicated to the Jewish Holocaust survivors who found temporary refuge to Cyprus after WWIII is a testament to the long-standing Cypriot Israeli friendship, Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides said ...
A moral call to action: the lesson from Jan Karski
By Clark Young
I attended Georgetown University from 2005-2009 where Professor Karski had previously taught for five decades. And yet I didn’t know anything about him until years after ...
Cyprus marks Holocaust Remembrance Day
Cyprus on Thursday observed Holocaust Remembrance Day which this year marked 77 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by Allied forces. President Nicos Anastasiades tweeted: “We will always ...