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  PM Modi at Yad Vashem: Why the Holocaust museum visit matters beyond symbolism

  World | February 26, 2026 17:15 IST

  PM Modi Israel visit: The leaders kicked off with an emotional visit to the Hall of Names, where Netanyahu recounted heartbreaking fates of his wife Sara's family members lost in the Holocaust. PM Modi continued to the Book of Names Hall, a somber repository preserving records of 6 million victims.

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  Brazilian President compares Israel's offensive in Gaza to Holocaust, Netanyahu responds

  World | February 19, 2024 10:36 IST

  Lula's remarks came as leaders of the African Union summit condemned Israel's offensive in Gaza, which has killed nearly 29,000 Palestinians. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu as promised to "finish the job" as a member of his war cabinet threatened an invasion in Rafah after Ramadan.

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  Embarrassment for Canada as Russia fumes over giving standing ovation to man who fought for Nazi

  World | September 25, 2023 19:14 IST

  Amid widespread criticism, the speaker of Canada’s House of Commons apologised for recognizing a man who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II.

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  International Holocaust Remembrance Day: How Jewish leaders save 10k fellow Jews from gas chambers

  World | January 27, 2023 17:29 IST

  As the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday, historians, activists, survivors and their families are all preparing for the time when there will no longer be living witnesses to share first-person accounts of the horrors of the Nazi genocide during World War II.

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  'Survived Hitler, murdered by Putin', says Ukraine minister on Holocaust survivor's death in Kharkiv

  World | March 22, 2022 8:40 IST

  Holocaust survivor Romanchenko survived the camps at Buchenwald, Peenemunde, Dora and Bergen-Belsen during World War II.

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  German dictionary changes definition of 'Jew' after outcry

  World | February 16, 2022 22:35 IST

  The Duden dictionary had recently added an explanation to its online edition saying that “occasionally, the term Jew is perceived as discriminatory because of the memory of the National Socialist use of language. In these cases, formulations such as Jewish people, Jewish fellow citizens or people of the Jewish faith are usually chosen”.

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  Whoopi Goldberg suspended by US TV network over Holocaust race remarks

  Hollywood | February 02, 2022 10:27 IST

  Whoopi Goldberg said during a discussion on 'The View' that race was not a factor in the Holocaust. She apologised hours later and again during an episode, but the original remark drew condemnation from several prominent Jewish leaders.

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  Facebook to remove content that denies or distorts the Holocaust

  News | October 13, 2020 10:34 IST

  Facebook has announced it would remove all content that "denies or distorts the Holocaust.

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  Holocaust survivors demand Facebook, other social media networks to ban denial posts

  News | August 15, 2020 14:02 IST

  World’s biggest documented genocide is the Holocaust. During the World War 2, as many as 6 million Jews were massacred in the Nazi concentration camps. 75 years later, the survivors of the Holocaust demand Facebook, other social networking sites to ban denial posts. Arno Klarsfeld, kin of a Holocaust survivor shares his story with us.

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  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg faces flak for refusing to ban Holocaust deniers

  Technology | July 19, 2018 9:21 IST

  Mark Zuckerberg is facing backlash again on social media for refusing to ban Holocaust deniers on his platform. 

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  World's oldest man and Holocaust survivor breathes his last at 113

  Lifestyle | August 13, 2017 13:04 IST

  During the Nazi occupation of Poland, Kristal was confined to the ghetto there and later sent to Auschwitz and other concentration camps.

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  PM Narendra Modi visits Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial

  World | July 05, 2017 0:00 IST

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi today visited Israel's Yad Vashem memorial and honoured the victims of the Holocaust.

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  Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor, dies at 87

  World | July 03, 2016 10:08 IST

  New York:Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor whose classic “Night” became a landmark testament to the Nazis’ crimes and launched Wiesel’s long career as one of the world’s foremost witnesses and humanitarians,

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  Holocaust 'most heinous crime', says Palestine's Abbas

  World | April 27, 2014 16:40 IST

  Jerusalem: In a rare gesture towards Israel, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today for the first time publicly decried the Nazi genocide of Jews in the Holocaust as “the most heinous crime” against humanity in modern

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  Hitler's wife may have had Jewish ancestry: documentary

  World | April 06, 2014 13:43 IST

  London: The Nazi leader had wed his long-term lover Eva Braun just hours before their joint suicide in his Berlin bunker in 1945 towards the end of World War II.In what could prove to be