The Presiding Archbishop and General Overseer of the Christian Action Faith Ministries, Archbishop, Nicholas Duncan Williams, has charged the international community and all humanity to ensure that, the atrocities committed against the Jews during the Second World War by the German Nazis (HOLOCAUST) is not repeated. Speaking at this year’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Archbishop … Read more
Mr. Yisrael Kristal who survived the historic Holocaust and recognised as world’s oldest living man by Guinness World Records has reportedly passed away in Isreal on Friday at age 113 years and 330 days. According to local news reports, He was one month away from his 114th birthday, before his demise at the northern port city of Haifa … Read more
Controversy has erupted after an Israeli art student reportedly claimed to have stolen items from the Auschwitz death camp for an exhibit, but her school said Thursday the claim was false. The school said the student, whose grandparents survived the Holocaust, had in fact taken items from outside the site in Poland, not the camp … Read more
Poland’s chief rabbi on Wednesday condemned a US congressman for recording a video inside a gas chamber at the former Nazi-German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, calling it inappropriate activity at a memorial site. “This is a place to be quiet. This is a place to meditate, to think — not a place to make videos and … Read more
New York on Tuesday renamed a Manhattan street corner after Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, Nobel peace laureate and humanitarian who died last year. The southwest corner of 84th Street and Central Park West on the Upper West Side was permanently renamed “Elie Wiesel Way” at a ceremony attended by city officials under the baking … Read more
US President Donald Trump promised to fight anti-Semitism on Tuesday, seeking to put behind him a series of missteps over the issue that have dogged his presidency. His forcefully worded pledge comes after a string of threats against Jewish community centers across the country this year that raised concerns about rising anti-Semitism during last year’s … Read more
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Monday accused French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen of a new, dangerous form of Holocaust denial disregarding European responsibility for the World War II murder of Jews. “The prevalent message arising from recent political statements is uniquely disturbing,” Rivlin said at a ceremony for Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day. “And … Read more
Israelis stood silent and sirens rang out for two minutes on Monday as the country held its annual remembrance of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Drivers exited their cars and buses ground to a halt, while students at schools marked the two minutes of silence that began at 10:00 am (0700 GMT). … Read more
President Donald Trump vowed to wipe out anti-Semitism in a message to mark Israel’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day after his administration was criticized for past statements about the genocide. In a four-minute taped video played to the World Jewish Congress in New York, the US leader called the Holocaust “the darkest chapter of human history” … Read more
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday threatened to destroy those who call for the destruction of Israel, in a speech to mark the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. “Iran and the Islamic state want to destroy us, and a hatred for Jews is being directed towards the Jewish state today,” he said at a ceremony in … Read more
A group of naked men and women today slaughtered a sheep in a bizarre ritual at the former Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland. Fourteen people, aged between 20 and 27, chained themselves together in front of the camp’s infamous ‘Arbeit macht frei’ (‘Work makes you free’) sign, according to museum staff. The group also … Read more
The director of Warsaw zoo and his wife always carried cyanide during World War II. Danger was ever-present but they were ready to take their secret to the grave. The couple hid nearly 300 Jews and resistance fighters on zoo grounds during most of the war, under the noses of the German Nazis occupying Poland. … Read more
Israel’s Yad Vashem has written to Amazon chief Jeff Bezos urging the internet retail giant to remove books which deny the Holocaust, the Holocaust memorial organisation said Monday. “We strongly urge you to remove books that deny, distort and trivialise the Holocaust from your store,” Robert Rozett, director of the Yad Vashem libraries, wrote in … Read more
Brunhilde Pomsel, the former secretary to Nazi Germany’s propaganda boss Joseph Goebbels, has died aged 106. Her job brought her into close contact with Goebbels – one of the worst war criminals of the 20th century. She was one of the last surviving members of staff from the Nazi hierarchy, who only spoke about her … Read more
Nepal marked the International Day of the Commemoration of the Victims of the Holocaust on Friday along with the United Nations, embassies of Israel and Germany as well as the Delegation of the European Union. A special event was organized in Kathmandu to remember the 6 million people killed during the Holocaust between 1939 to … Read more
Mrs Christine Evans-Klock, the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Ghana, has urged members of the global body to institute educational programmes to imprint the memory of the Holocaust tragedy in the minds of successive generations to prevent the recurrence of genocides. They should also work towards mobilising civil society to educate the citizenry against such … Read more