The Mormon church has apologized for the posthumous baptism of the parents of Simon Wiesenthal. A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints last month submitted the names of Wiesenthal's parents for posthumous baptism, the Salt Lake Tribune...

A new grant-giving foundation will provide one-time grants to help improve the quality of life for Holocaust survivors living in the United Kingdom. The Six Point Foundation said it has $6.3 million to assist victims of Nazi persecution or refugees, fugitives...

Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, will challenge President Hugo Chavez in upcoming elections. Capriles, 39, governor of the Miranda state, won a primary Sunday with 61 percent of the vote to...

WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. -- More than 65 years ago Kurt Kaufmann was liberated from the Auschwitz concentration camp. This weekend his U.S.-born grandson, Evan Kaufmann, is taking the ice for the German national hockey team. After finishing a successful...

NEW YORK -- Jewish French film director Claude Lanzmann denied accusations that he sexually harassed a guard at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport. A female Israeli security guard filed a complaint on Wednesday saying that Lanzmann, who directed the landmark...

"La Habanera" is the next film in the Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series, and will be screened at 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26 in the Holocaust Museum's theatre in the Jewish Federation Kopolow Building, 12 Millstone Campus Drive.Director...

A box of surgical tools owned by the commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp is set to be auctioned. The wooden box of medical instruments going up for sale Feb. 11 belonged to SS Major Anton Burger, who helped turn the camp into a showcase...

Scientists using ground-probing electronics may have discovered the missing mass graves at the site of Treblinka, one of the Nazis' most notorious death camps. No actual bodies were found and the graves were not excavated, in keeping with Jewish law,...

PRAGUE -- Jewish and historical groups in Poland have called for a day to be devoted to Poles who helped Jews during the Holocaust. The Association of the Children of the Holocaust, the Jan Karski Association, and the Museum of the History of Polish...

SNCF, the French national railroad, has handed over digital copies of hits World War II–era archives. The documents were transferred to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and the Shoah Memorial in Paris, SNCF said...

A leader of Hungary's far-right, anti-Semitic Jobbik Party questioned the Holocaust and claimed that Jews were colonizing Hungary, in an interview with Britain's Jewish Chronicle. Marton Gyongyosi, deputy leader and foreign affairs spokesman for Jobbik,...

Rabbi Menachem Youlus, who was dubbed the "Jewish Indiana Jones" for his remarkable tales of rescuing Holocaust-era Torah scrolls, pleaded guilty to fraud charges. Youlus' accounts turned out to be contradicted by historical evidence, witness accounts...