A former Nazi death camp guard dubbed the "Accountant of Auschwitz" has died before he could begin serving his four-year sentence, a lawyer has told German prosecutors.

Elderly survivors are gathering at the former Auschwitz death camp as political leaders warned that the Nazi genocide must continue to serve as a warning while the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

A woman who was one of the few Italian children to survive deportation to a Nazi death camp has been made a senator-for-life in Italy.

A group of 11 people took off their clothes, killed a sheep and chained themselves together by the main gate of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, before being detained by police, officials have said.

A Polish court has handed one-year suspended prison terms and fined two Portuguese teenagers who wrote their names on a gate of the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Dozens of Auschwitz survivors have laid flowers at the infamous execution wall in the former Nazi death camp today, paying tribute to the victims of Adolf Hitler's brutal regime exactly 72 years after the camp's liberation.

Pope Francis has paid a sombre and largely silent visit to the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, becoming the third consecutive pontiff to make the pilgrimage to the place where Adolf Hitler’s forces killed more than a million people.

Pope Francis said human "cruelty did not end in Auschwitz" and that similar atrocities are being inflicted in war zones across the world today, citing prisoners who are kept in inhuman conditions and tortured.

Pope Francis has paid a sombre visit to the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

A 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served as a guard at Auschwitz has been found guilty of more than 170,000 counts of accessory to murder.

Staff at the Auschwitz museum have uncovered jewellery secretly hidden in an enamel mug since the liberation of the wartime Nazi death camp in 1945.

Thousands of people from around the world have paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust with a sombre march from the barracks of Auschwitz to nearby Birkenau.

A 94-year-old former SS sergeant has told a German court he is “ashamed” that he served as a guard in the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp.

A court in Poland has refused to drop the case against two British teenagers allegedly caught in June taking objects from the site of the Nazi Auschwitz death camp and has referred it to a lower court.

Three survivors spoke of the smell of burnt bodies and piles of dead people at Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz camp at the trial of a former guard accused of helping in the murder of at least 170,000 people.

A 94-year-old former SS guard at the Auschwitz concentration camp is going on trial today on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder, the first of up to four cases being brought to court this year in an 11th-hour push by German prosecutors to punish Nazi war crimes.

Dozens of elderly Holocaust survivors have lit candles at Auschwitz exactly 71 years after the Soviet army liberated the death camp.

A 95-year-old man is to go on trial next month on 3,681 counts of accessory to murder for allegedly serving in the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp.

A far-right politician in Germany has been found guilty of incitement for showing a tattoo of what appeared to be the Auschwitz death camp while visiting a swimming pool.

German prosecutors have charged a far-right politician with incitement after he appeared at a swimming pool with a tattoo of what appeared to be the Auschwitz death camp on his back.

A 93-year-old former SS sergeant charged with 170,000 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard has been declared fit for trial.

German prosecutors have charged a 91-year-old woman with 260,000 counts of accessory to murder over allegations she was a member of the Nazi SS who served in the Auschwitz death camp complex.

A former SS officer - nicknamed the 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' - has been convicted of being an accessory to murder and sentenced to four years prison.

German prosecutors have sought a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for a 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served at Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland, saying his role there made him an accessory to murder.

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A 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served in Auschwitz has testified that he helped the death camp function in his role sorting cash and valuables seized from Jews after they arrived in cattle-cars.

Two British teenagers who were suspected of stealing items that belonged to prisoners at Auschwitz have been released with suspended sentences.

A former SS sergeant has described in chilling detail how cattle cars full of Jews were brought to the Auschwitz death camp, the people stripped of their belongings, and then most led directly into gas chambers.

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A former Auschwitz guard acknowledged he bears a share of the moral guilt for atrocities at the camp, but told judges at the opening of his trial that it is up to them to decide whether he deserves to be convicted as an accessory to murder.

A 93-year-old man is going on trial in Germany on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder over allegations that he helped the functioning of the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland by serving as a guard there.

Labour TD Anne Ferris has been told to withdraw comments where she compared the views of an anti-immigration group to the events of Auschwitz.

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