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Holocaust Remembrance Day: Honoring victims and celebrating Jewish resilience

On Yom Hashoah, objects, letters, and fragments of lives cut short remind us that the Holocaust was not only about death, but about vibrant life.

Remembering the Holocaust: A call to preserve Jewish memory
Two people stand at a plaque at the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial near Weimar, Germany, Jan. 26, 2018.

Pro-Palestinian activists are banned from Buchenwald, where survivors vowed to fight for peace

A visitor stands in front of a watchtower behind a fence on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar

Pro-Palestinian rally at Buchenwald memorial shut down by German authorities

A portrait of Friedrich Torberg, Jan. 1, 1970.

A lost novel from 1943 that predicted the Holocaust has been recovered


German prosecutors charge 100-year-old former concentration camp guard

Prosecutors and court officials in Neuruppin, where the charges were brought, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

THE FORMER Nazi concentration camp in Sachsenhausen on the 75th anniversary of its liberation by Soviet and US troops, during the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) near Berlin, Germany, on April 17.

Nazi secretary at Stutthof camp charged for role in 10,000 murders

As the woman was under 18 when she served at the camp, she will be charged at a juvenile court.

'Death Gate' at Stutthof Concentration Camp

In this Holocaust film, a Jewish inmate makes up a language to survive

"Persian Lessons" is based on a short story by the screenwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase, who specializes in tragicomedies.

The site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz is pictured during the ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day, in Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2020.

Locals ski across graves at Buchenwald concentration camp

Memorial staff have increased security and called for locals to show respect and refrain from winter sports at the site of the camp.

A visitor stands in front of a watchtower behind a fence on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar

Former Nazi concentration camp guard removal order from the US upheld

Friedrich Karl Berger, a Tennessee resident, served as an armed guard in the Neuengamme prisoners' concentration camp during the winter of 1945.

Former hammer-workshop of the German concentration camp Neuengamme.

Belarus: Detainees piled in 'concentration camp' as jails run out of room

A curfew was reportedly imposed on the country on Tuesday and both mobile and internet connections were shut down to suppress the protests.

Clashes between law enforcement officers and opposition supporters after presidential election in Minsk

100-year-old survived six concentration camps, says Mengele 'saved' him

David Scharf: From Antwerp to Jerusalem, 2017

BNEI AKIVA members present David Scharf with a plant, honoring him on Yom Haatzmaut.

German court convicts 93-year-old man for Nazi crimes

Dey has admitted that he served at the camp and had knowledge of what took place, but has denied any complicity in the deaths of inmates - claiming that he never bought into the Nazi ideology.

'Death Gate' at Stutthof Concentration Camp

Pope: Libyan migrant centers are like concentration camps

"Yes, there is a war (in Libya) and we know that is ugly but you cannot imagine the hell that people live there in those lagers of detention," he said.

Pope Francis holds weekly general audience at the Vatican, May 15, 2019.

China’s increasingly oppressive actions show dangerous global trend

THERE ARE widespread reports coming out of China of forced labor, torture, beatings, forced use of medications and involuntary sterilizations, among and other egregious human rights abuses.

DEMONSTRATORS RUN from riot police shooting pepper-spray pellets during a protest in Hong Kong on June 9.