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RTÉ to screen story tonight of how Tomi Reichental, survivor of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, reached out to former jailor.
Twitter users criticised the garment for its resemblance to the uniform Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust.
The MP has already said that he is going to appeal the €3,000 fine.
Thousands of Roma met their fate in the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers, died in medical experiments or starved to death. Others were displaced or sterilised.
The man admits joining the Waffen SS when he was 17 but denies being an Auschwitz guard.
Anne Frank never lived to tell her tale but we can honour her memory, and that of all the murdered, by challenging anti-Semitism where we find it.
That’s one of the findings from a worldwide survey on anti-Semitism.
The Crocus Project is is run by the Holocaust Education Trust Ireland (HETI) and aims to teach children about the consequences of discrimination.
Alice Herz-Sommer died in London on Sunday after a short illness.
The Minister warned against the rise of extreme far right political parties – including UKIP – in a speech last night.
Dieudonne’s says his “quenelle” gesture represents his anti-establishment views but people have been photographed making it at synagogues and Holocaust memorials.
Hearing of violence against Jewish community in Germany and Austria, English stockbroker Nicholas Winton organised transport of children to safety.
Seen as the start of the Holocaust, Kristallnacht took place across Germany 75 years ago tonight.
The world’s biggest online marketplace has removed the listings from its website and will donate nearly €30,000 to charity.
Kilkenny man Larry Brennan came to attention when he was pictured with a Hitler-themed birthday cake in a local paper – and then went on to make controversial comments on KCLR 96FM.
More than 90 per cent of Lithuania’s 200,000 pre-war Jews died at the hands of the Nazis and local collaborators during WWII.
More than 450,000 Holocaust survivors and heirs have received money from the fund which was set up for people who had kept secret accounts in Switzerland during the war.
Emery Jacoby shares his family’s tragedy online.
Hundreds of people – including Holocaust survivors – gathered to mark the uprising that saw Jewish people take arms against Nazi forces.
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Berlusconi is aiming to become prime minister again after elections in four weeks’ time.
The statue by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, depicts Adolf Hitler praying on his knees.
Over 700 of the 2,100 Jews living in Norway at the start of World War II were deported, only 34 survived concentration camps.
Fund administrators and German officials say payments to Holocaust survivors are needed “more than ever” as they enter their final years.
The Belgian Prime Minister said the country has been “complicit in the most abominable crime” by deporting tens of thousands of Jewish people to Nazi concentration camps during the war.
Laszlo Csizsik-Csatary was sentenced to death by a Czech court in 1948 but fled to Canada and had lived freely.
John Demjanjuk was convicted over a year ago of helping to herd some 28,000 people into gas chambers at the Sobibor Camp in Poland in the early 1940s.
Suspicion has fallen on a small fringe of ultra-Orthodox Jews, who are virulently opposed to the state of Israel.
Around 200,000 survivors live in Israel.
The Turkish shampoo company brought Adolf Hitler back to life as a spokesperson for its “manly” products.
John Demjanjuk, a retired autoworker in the US, had been charged with 28,060 counts of being an accessory to murder – one for every person who died at the concentration camp he was a guard at.
“The first ten years of this 15 year ordeal were absolutely hell”
On Holocaust Memorial Day, Justice Minister Alan Shatter writes that we should not assume that the type of horror created by the Nazi killing machine could not be repeated in the future.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews used the outfits to protest criticism of their strict lifestyle is a new form of ‘incitement’ and is ‘reminiscient of the German media before WWII’.
Dublin dweller Tomi Reichental was taken to Bergen-Belsen by the Nazis as a nine-year-old boy. Here he describes his experience of its horrors.
Eliota Fuimaono-Sapolu compared Samoa’s World Cup schedule to the Holocaust and apartheid on Twitter.
Sky Sports forced to immediately apologise after on-air comments from former Ireland striker.
Advocate for Holocaust survivors, Noach Flug, died yesterday in a Jerusalem hospital.
In Ireland and other similar countries, we worry about spending too much. Many people don’t have that luxury, writes economist Ronan Lyons.