The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis said Thursday that Germany has agreed to extend another $1.4 billion overall for Holocaust survivors around the globe for the coming year. The compensation was negotiated with Germany’s
Matthias Weniger put on a pair of white cloth gloves and carefully lifted a tarnished silver candleholder, looking for a yellowed sticker on the bottom of it. The candlestick is one of 111 silver objects at the Bavarian National Museum that the
A crowd of more than 25,000 cheered on 100-year-old Holocaust survivor Helen Kahan as she threw the first pitch of the game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the New York Yankees. “It was really wonderful and exciting,” Kahan told Fox News
Seventy-eight years after surviving three concentration camps and a death march, one Florida woman will celebrate her 100th birthday by throwing out the first pitch at Tropicana Field as the Tampa Bay Rays host the New York Yankees on Friday evening, May
Switzerland’s executive body agreed Wednesday to help pay for the country’s first national memorial to honor the six million Jews and other victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution. The Federal Council, the seven-member executive branch, approved 2.5 million Swiss francs (about
Andrew Bridgen has been expelled from the Conservative Party for good, after comparing Covid vaccines to the Holocaust. He was removed from the party on April 12 it was revealed earlier today. He had already had the Conservative whip removed, meaning he
Israelis ground to a halt for a nationwide moment of silence on Tuesday in remembrance of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust as a two-minute siren wailed across the country. Vehicles and pedestrians halted on streets and highways as Israelis
Thousands of people assembled Tuesday at the former site of Auschwitz for the March of the Living, a yearly Holocaust remembrance march that falls this year on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Participants
Israel’s president appealed for national unity as the country marked the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday after months of mass protests that have roiled the nation. Yom Hashoah, the day Israel observes as a memorial for the 6 million Jews
A dating site scammer is facing up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to swindling £2.2 million ($2.8 million) from a Holocaust survivor. Peaches Stergo, 36, “lived a life of luxury” thanks to the enormous cash sum she swindled out of