Poland, Israel condemn resurgent anti-Semitism at Auschwitz commemoration
The presidents of Israel and Poland called on Monday for greater efforts to combat anti-Semitism as the world marked 75 years since the liberation of...
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Anastasiades to visit Israel on Holocaust Remembrance Day
President Nicos Anastasiades will pay a state visit to Israel on January 23, 2020, on the occasion of the 16th International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which...
Polish officials may cancel trip to Israel over diplomatic spat
WARSAW, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Polish officials may cancel their planned trip to Israel, the head of the prime minister’s office, Michal Dworczyk, said on...
Commemoration for 2,200 children of Holocaust survivors born in Cyprus
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday visited a monument in Nicosia dedicated to the 2,200 children of Holocaust survivors who were born in British detention...
Ground broken for new Jewish Museum in Cyprus
By Evie Andreou Religious leaders, representatives of the government and of 10 other countries, and members of the Jewish community came together in Larnaca this...
Civilisation and human destructiveness
Modernity has done little to resolve an inherent contradiction within us all. Indeed it has exacerbated it By Andonis Vassiliades The pillars of democracy are...
Poland’s president says will sign Holocaust bill, defying critics
Poland’s president said on Tuesday he will sign into law a bill imposing jail terms for suggesting the country was complicit in the Holocaust, defying...
Polish lawmakers back Holocaust bill, drawing Israeli outrage
Polish lawmakers approved a bill on Thursday that would impose jail terms for suggesting Poland was complicit in the Holocaust, drawing concern from the United States and...
Foreign affairs ministry marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day
In a statement issued on Friday marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the ministry of foreign affairs condemned all manifestations of anti-Semitism, religious intolerance, xenophobia and...
Holocaust victim’s family brought together by pendant
Dozens of relatives from three continents lay a brass plaque in the pavement in Frankfurt on Monday, in memory of a Jewish schoolgirl who perished in the...
German court sentences 88-year-old Holocaust denier to jail
A German court sentenced an 88-year-old woman to six months in prison on Monday for denying the Holocaust and for inciting hatred. Ursula Haverbeck, who...
Ex-Auschwitz paramedic accused of accessory to mass murder
A 95-year-old former paramedic at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz was charged in a German court on Monday with being an accessory to the murder...
When did we stop caring about mass murder?
After the Holocaust, we thought we would ‘Never Forget’ mass killings, but our inability to focus on any of them for more than one news...
Pope, at Auschwitz, asks God to forgive ‘so much cruelty’
Hunched on a bench near the gate to the Auschwitz death camp site in Poland, Pope Francis prayed silently on Friday in tribute to 1.5...
Netanyahu rebukes Israeli general over Holocaust speech
By Jeffrey Heller Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, contradicting his defence minister, scolded Israel’s deputy military chief on Sunday for suggesting that Israeli society was showing...
First official visit by an Israeli defence minister to Cyprus
Israel`s Minister of Defence Moshe Ya`alon arrives in Cyprus on Wednesday for one-day visit, the first such official visit. He was invited by his Cypriot counterpart Christoforos...
Broad smiles and enduring spirit at Holocaust survivors’ beauty contest
By Amir Cohen To the strains of Madonna’s ‘Vogue’, the 13 women with a combined age of about 1,050 strutted down the runway cautiously, hindered...
Israel’s Netanyahu stirs trouble by linking late Muslim leader to Holocaust
By Luke Baker Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provoked a Holocaust controversy on Wednesday, hours before a visit to Germany, by saying that the Muslim...
Huckabee’s gas chamber reference to Iran deal draws Israeli criticism
By Jeffrey Heller US Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee drew rare criticism from Israel on Tuesday for comments in which he accused President Barack Obama...
Germany drops war crimes case against former SS soldier due to dementia
Germany will not prosecute a former Nazi SS soldier who allegedly helped kill more than 300 people in Italy during World War Two because he has dementia and is unfit...