Henry Kissinger, the diplomat with the thick glasses and gravelly voice who dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China, died on Wednesday. With his gruff yet commanding presence and behind-the-scenes manipulation of
A school district has apologised after it used passages from Nazi Holocaust architect Heinrich Himmler as its “quote of the day”. As part of its morning ritual, the Indianola Community School District in Iowa featured quotes that are expected to enrich the
A Holocaust survivor rescued by Britain has told how the pro-Palestinian marches have left him fearing for his life for the first time since fleeing the Nazis. He said the brewing hatred which has infected swathes of the country brought back vivid
Italian politicians and Jewish leaders have condemned the vandalizing this week of four tiny memorial plaques embedded in sidewalks in front of apartment buildings where Roman Jews were living when they were deported from the Nazi-occupied city in 1944 and sent to
Israel has announced the recall of its diplomatic staff from Turkey following President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s controversial likening of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza to the Holocaust. Tensions between the two nations have escalated dramatically in the wake of Erdogan’s remarks. Israeli
The great grandson of a Holocaust survivor has today faced an “anti-Jewish mob” at his university. Speaking to Express.co.uk, Dov Forman says that he was sat in the lecture hall at a university in London today (Thursday, October 19) when he heard
Italian lawmakers voted unanimously Wednesday to back a long-delayed project to build a Holocaust Museum in Rome, underlining the urgency of the undertaking following the killing of Israeli civilians by Hamas fighters in what have been deemed the deadliest attacks on Jews
Newly unearthed wartime correspondence from Pope Pius XII indicates he may have known about the Holocaust earlier than previously believed. Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, on Sunday reproduced a typewritten letter that was recently found in the Vatican archives. The letter,
Eva Fahidi-Pusztai, a Holocaust survivor who spent the late years of her life warning of the re-emergence of far-right populism and discrimination against minorities across Europe, has died. She was 97. The International Auschwitz Committee said Fahidi-Pusztai died in Budapest on Monday.
The German government on Tuesday presented plans for a “German-Polish House” in Berlin to serve as a memorial to Polish victims of World War II and detail Germany’s brutal occupation of its neighbor between 1939 and 1945. The documentation center is intended