The Holocaust
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, shake hands after a press conference after their talks in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Aug.16, 2022. (Wolfgang Kumm/dpa via AP)
Palestinian President Abbas skirts apology for Munich attack

By Frank Jordans Aug. 16, 2022 09:43 PM EDT

This undated photo released by Tokyo 2020 shows Kentaro Kobayashi, a key director of Tokyo Olympics’ opening ceremony. The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee dismissed the director of the opening ceremony on Thursday, July 22, 2021 because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998. (©Tokyo 2020 via AP)
Olympic opening ceremony director fired for Holocaust joke

By Mari Yamaguchi Jul. 21, 2021 11:18 PM EDT

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and German Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas, right, sign an agreement during a ceremony for the launch of a U.S.-Germany Dialogue on Holocaust Issues at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Thursday, June 24, 2021. Blinken is on a week long trip in Europe traveling to Germany, France and Italy. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)
US, Germany confront rising antisemitism, Holocaust denial

By Matthew Lee Jun. 24, 2021 07:53 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 20, 2021, file photo Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks in Brooklyn Center, Minn., during a news conference at the site of the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright by a police officer during a traffic stop. A group of Jewish House Democrats are accusin Omar of likening the U.S. and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban. The 12 Democrats say her comparison shows prejudice and gives ”cover to terrorist groups." Their criticism comes after Omar asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken about atrocities she says have been committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan and the Taliban. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
Dems, GOP edging away from fight over Reps. Greene, Omar

By Alan Fram Jun. 16, 2021 01:06 PM EDT

Aranka Engel, 103, left, holds the hand of fellow Holocaust survivor Jean Kurz, 81, while watching Orthodox Jewish singer Yaakov Shwekey perform at a concert honoring them and dozens of other Holocaust survivors on Monday, June 14, 2021, at the Yeshivah of Flatbush theater at Joel Braverman High School in the Brooklyn borough of New York. It was the first large gathering for New York-area Holocaust survivors after more than a year of isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
NY Holocaust survivors celebrated at concert after isolation

By Luis Andres Henao Jun. 14, 2021 08:57 PM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 12, 2021, file photo, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Greene apologized Monday, June 14, 2021, for affronting people with recent comments comparing the required wearing of safety masks in the House to the horrors of the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Rep. Greene apologizes for comparing safety masks, Holocaust

By Alan Fram Jun. 14, 2021 07:41 PM EDT

Newly-elected House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., second from left, watches as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., left, speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, May 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
GOP leaders condemn Greene over Holocaust comments

By Brian Slodysko May. 25, 2021 12:34 PM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2021 file photo, Holocaust survivor Joseph Zalman Kleinman gestures to the arm he prefers to receive the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19, in Jerusalem. Kleinman who lived through through the Auschwitz death camp and testified against Adolf Eichmann in the Nazi commander's trial in Jerusalem, died Tuesday in Israel. He was 91. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
Holocaust survivor who testified against Eichmann dies at 91

By Ilan Ben Zion May. 04, 2021 02:26 PM EDT

Points cover the surface of a plaster model from a sculpture by Chas Fagan of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winning author Elie Wiesel in the Human Rights Porch at the Washington National Cathedral, Thursday, March 25, 2021. The marks are made with a pointing machine, a measuring tool to accurately copy plaster sculpture models into stone. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel gets seat at National Cathedral

By Ashraf Khalil Apr. 28, 2021 12:09 AM EDT

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, center, lays down a wreath during commemorations marking the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, Sunday, April 11, 2021. On April 11, 1945 the US Army liberated the concentration camp Buchenwald. At left is Steinmeier's wife Elke Buendenbender. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
German president: Buchenwald a reminder of Nazi 'barbarism'

Apr. 11, 2021 06:54 AM EDT

Today in History

By The Associated Press Apr. 11, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
Today in History Today is Sunday, April 11, the 101st day of 2021. There are 264 days left in the year. Today’s...

Israelis stand next to their cars as sirens mark a nationwide moment of silence in remembrance of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, April 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
March of the Living honors medical workers battling COVID-19

By Laurie Kellman Apr. 08, 2021 08:08 AM EDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 19, 2016 file photo a sticker from around 1900 reading: 'Don't buy from Jews' is displayed at an exhibition of antisemitic and racist stickers at the Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historic Museum) in Berlin, Germany. Before local anti-Jewish laws were enacted, before neighborhood shops and synagogues were destroyed, and before Jews were forced into ghettos, cattle cars, and camps, words were used to stoke the fire of hate. 'ItStartedWithWords' is a digital, Holocaust education campaign posting weekly videos of survivors from across the world reflecting on those moments that led up to the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)
Holocaust survivors use social media to fight anti-Semitism

By David Rising Apr. 08, 2021 12:01 AM EDT

Israeli students visit at the museum "From Holocaust to Revival" on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Israel, Wednesday, April. 7, 2021. Holocaust remembrance day is one of the most solemn on Israel's calendar with restaurants and places of entertainment shut down, and radio and TV programming focused on Holocaust documentaries and interviews with survivors. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
On Holocaust Day, Netanyahu issues warning about Iran

By Josef Federman Apr. 07, 2021 03:10 PM EDT

FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2019 file photo, Strasbourg chief Rabbi Harold Abraham Weill looks at vandalized tombs in the Jewish cemetery of Westhoffen, west of the city of Strasbourg, eastern France. Coronavirus lockdowns in 2020 shifted some anti-Semitic hatred online, where conspiracy theories blaming Jews for the pandemic’s medical and economic devastation abounded, Israeli researchers at Tel Aviv University's Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry in an annual report Wednesday, April 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)
Report: Pandemic amped up anti-Semitism, forced it online

By Laurie Kellman Apr. 07, 2021 04:02 AM EDT

School fires football coach after anti-Semitic play calls

Mar. 24, 2021 01:23 PM EDT
DUXBURY, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts high school fired its successful football coach and hired an outside consultant Wednesday to assist an investigation into...

FILE - In this Feb.7, 2021 file photo a man visits the Holocaust Memorial during snowfall in central Berlin, Germany. Germany has committed millions of dollars in extra funding to survivors of the Nazi Holocaust to help ensure that all of them are able to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, the organization that handles claims on behalf of Jewish victims said Wednesday.(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Germany funds vaccine assistance for Holocaust survivors

By David Rising Mar. 24, 2021 07:39 AM EDT

Pope visits Holocaust survivor in Rome home to thank her

By Frances D'emilio Feb. 20, 2021 04:56 PM EST
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday visited with a Holocaust survivor in her Rome apartment to pay tribute to all those who suffered from what he called “the...

FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2021 file photo, 90-year-old Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre wears a face mask to curb the spread of COVD-19 as attends the debate at the Senate prior to a confidence vote, in Rome. On Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese expressed solidarity and closeness to Segre and denounced the “new and unacceptable attack she suffered on the (social media) network” marked by a “very dangerous mix of hate, violence and racism.” Segre's efforts to encourage other older adults to receive the anti-COVID-19 vaccine as she did have triggered a wave of anti-Semitic comments and other invective on social media. (Yara Nardi/pool photo via AP, file)
Italy: Holocaust survivor's plug for vaccine sparks hatred

Feb. 19, 2021 01:11 PM EST

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right, and Rabbi Shaul Nekrich, right, take part in a ceremony at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021 to complete the historic Sulzbach Torah Scroll from 1792, rediscovered in 2013 and just restored. The ceremony takes place on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Odd Andersen/Pool Photo via AP)
Germany remembers Auschwitz liberation in parliament

By Kirsten Grieshaber Jan. 27, 2021 08:08 AM EST