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People in Israel observed the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day with sirens halting life for two minutes.

Holocaust survivors across the world are uniting to deliver a message on the dangers of unchecked hate and the importance of remembrance at a time of rising global antisemitism.

The Auschwitz Memorial and other anti-hate organizations have condemned British-Irish comedian Jimmy Carr for a remark in his latest Netflix special.

The McMinn County School Board voted to ban Pulitzer prize-winning graphic novel, “Maus” by Art Spiegelman from eighth grade language arts curriculum.

A new graphic book depicts the autobiographies written by six Jewish teenagers just before World War II. It is being published as a major archive of prewar documents about the Jews of Eastern Europe are reunited online.

A top administrator with the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, advised teachers last week that if they have a book about the Holocaust in their classroom, they should also offer students access to a book from an “opposing” perspective, according to an audio recording obtained by NBC News. Gina Peddy, the Carroll school district’s executive director of curriculum and...

Roman Kent, who survived the Holocaust and helped make sure the world never forgot its horrors, died at 92 in his Manhattan home, his daughter said.

The 9-year-old girls met in the schoolyard near their Berlin homes to say goodbye. Ilse Betty Grebenschikoff and Anne Maria Wahrenberg were best friends who leaned on one another during the early days of the Nazi’s anti-Jewish campaign. In 1939, both of their families were preparing to flee Germany for different destinations. Grebenschikoff and Wahrenberg embraced, cried and promised to…

Israelis stood in silence for two minutes on Thursday to remember the six million people who died in the Holocaust.

The Claims Conference, an organization that seeks restitution for victims of the Holocaust, launched a social media campaign explaining the speech and words that were said prior to the Nazi-led genocide of millions of people, including 6 million Jewish people.

Dr. Edith Eger speaks about “The Gift,” her book that mentions grief as a force for positive change, inspired by her story surviving the Auschwitz concentration camp, and her healing process from the trauma.

Hundreds of Holocaust survivors in Austria and Slovakia have received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine 76 years after Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz death camp

A new study showed how disconnected younger generations have become from the realities of the Holocaust. Professor of Modern Jewish History Deborah Lipstadt explains why that is so dangerous.

The rise of Holocaust deniers on social media platforms has been deeply painful to the elderly survivors of the genocide. These survivors are now taking to Facebook with the hashtag #NoDenyingIt to call on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove Holocaust deniers from the company’s platforms

The rise of Holocaust deniers on social media platforms has been deeply painful to the elderly survivors of the genocide. These survivors are now taking to Facebook with the hashtag #NoDenyingIt to call on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove Holocaust deniers from the company’s platforms.

A court in Hamburg, Germany, convicted former Nazi guard Bruno Dey of being an accessory to the murder of over 5,200 prisoners during World War II.

People across Connecticut held somber ceremonies on Monday to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Monday marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Survivors of the Auschwitz death camp tell their harrowing stories as they gather at the site to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp – some of them for the first time.

Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp prayed and wept as they marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by the Soviet army