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January 23, 2020

Pence's office denies Prince Charles 'snub' after video posted online

The press secretary for Vice President Mike Pence hit back at reports Thursday that he might have been “snubbed” by Prince Charles while at the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem.

January 23, 2020

World Holocaust Forum: Pence, Netanyahu, and other world leaders speak

The leaders who addressed the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem were united in condemning the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II, and in vowing to learn from the past. But their diverging views of what that entails reveal a world at odds about the legacy of the genocide, 75 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp.

January 23, 2020

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Few Americans know the death toll, poll finds

A new survey claims the Holocaust is receding in collective memory, as few Americans know the death toll of Jews.

January 23, 2020

World leaders attend anti-Semitism, Holocaust forum in Jerusalem

More than 40 world leaders, including Vice President Mike Pence, French President Emmanuel Macron, Britain’s Prince Charles and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, descended on Jerusalem Thursday to rally against anti-Semitism at the World Holocaust Forum.

January 23, 2020

Pence calls for world to 'stand strong' against anti-Semitism at Auschwitz liberation commemoration in Israel

Vice President Pence delivered a stirring speech in Jerusalem before an audience that included world leaders and Holocaust survivors, vowing that never again shall the world allow the atrocities committed by the Nazis to be repeated.

January 5, 2020

Berlin police block activists from dismantling left-wing installation said to hold Holocaust victims' remains

Activists said Sunday that Berlin police prevented them from dismantling an art installation that angered Jewish groups after those who erected it claimed it contained Holocaust victims’ remains.

December 31, 2019

West Virginia Nazi salute photo leads officials to plan Holocaust education

West Virginia plans to begin training its corrections department staff about the Holocaust after a photograph of correction officer cadets giving Nazi salutes led to dozens of firings and widespread outrage, officials said Tuesday.

December 16, 2019

Holocaust planner’s grave dug up, Berlin police say

Berlin authorities on Monday said the grave of a high-ranking Nazi official who helped plan the holocaust has been dug up.

December 6, 2019

Germany's Angela Merkel visits Auschwitz for first time amid rising anti-Semitism

German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on Friday, marking her first-ever visit to the notorious site in her 14 years as Germany’s leader.

December 5, 2019

German activists apologize for use of Holocaust victims’ remains in anti-Nazi installation

A German activist group has apologized for digging up and displaying what it claimed to be Holocaust victims’ remains in an installation meant to fight against far-right extremism.