Museum authorities at the former Nazi death camp have protested to an online vendor that was selling miniskirts, pillows and other items bearing photos of the camp, where some 1.1 million people were killed during World War II.
Poet Halina Birenbaum and Auschwitz-Birkenau museum threatened to boycott Turin International Book Fair if it included Italian publisher with links to neo-fascist CasaPound party.
U.S. Attorney Robert S. Brewer Jr. says it's possible the suspect, John T. Earnest, could face the death penalty following last month's shooting at Chabad of Poway, in a suburb north of San Diego. "We will not allow our community members to be hunted in their houses of worship," says Brewer.
High-ranking officials of Germany's Lutheran church unveil the installation to remember the malign activities of a so-called "dejudification institute" that was founded 80 years ago to eliminate all Jewish influence from Christian life in the country then run by the Nazis.
Chabad of Poway synagogue sought a $150,000 federal grant to install gates and more secure doors, but it took nearly a year for the application to be approved and the money to be distributed. "Obviously, we did not have a chance to start using the funds yet," says Rabbi Simcha Backman, a week after the deadly shooting.
As Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, thousands attend annual event in Poland to keep the memory of the six million Jews alive.
Under Spanish law, "Rue Saint-Honoré, Après-midi, Effet de Pluie" by Camille Pissarro legally belongs to the museum, although District Court Judge John F. Walter called decision to keep the work "inconsistent" with international agreements.
New survey finds many Austrians lack basic knowledge of Nazi genocide, even though Mauthausen concentration camp was just outside city of Linz and some key perpetrators of the Holocaust were Austrian.
Speaking at state ceremony at Yad Vashem, President Reuven Rivlin says, "No interest and no consideration of realpolitik can justify a dishonorable alliance with racist groups or elements who do not acknowledge their past and their responsibility for the crimes of the Holocaust."
"What if a girl in the Holocaust had Instagram?" asks a trailer for the "Eva Stories" project that launches ahead of Wednesday's Holocaust Remembrance Day
