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<p>Mayor Femke Halsema said the Amsterdam government ‘was not heroic’. Picture: Bart Maat/Pool Photo via AP</p>

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Amsterdam’s mayor apologises for city’s role in the Holocaust

Mayor Femke Halsema said that civil servants in Amsterdam played an active role in the murder of thousands of Jewish citizens of the city

Artificial intelligence could be misused to spread misleading or false claims about the Holocaust, a new report warns (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

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Artificial intelligence advances could spread Holocaust denial, warns Unesco

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March of the Living at Auschwitz overshadowed by Israel-Hamas war

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Protests as Israeli president attends opening of Netherlands Holocaust museum

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We must first understand genocide to determine if it is happening

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Death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau liberation

S Terry Prone: Today’s the day for young diarists to start writing the story of their lives

2024 may or may not be a happy new year, and we may or may not keep our resolutions. But, on January 1, a new diary is all clean white pages and a sense of glorious possibility

Mon, 01 Jan, 2024

Former students reject school board's 'regret' about Nazi collaborator

School expresses its shock that former teacher may have been involved in atrocities during the Second World War

Thu, 05 Oct, 2023

Holocaust survivor Eva Fahidi-Pusztai dies in Hungary aged 97

Eva Fahidi-Pusztai, a Holocaust survivor who spent the later years of her life warning of the re-emergence of far-right populism and discrimination against minorities across Europe, has died aged 97.

Tue, 12 Sep, 2023

Germany to give €1.6bn to Holocaust survivors around the world in 2024

Germany has agreed to extend another $1. 4bn (€1. 6bn) overall for Holocaust survivors around the globe in 2024, the organisation that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis has said.

Thu, 15 Jun, 2023

Survivor, 85, tells horrors of holocaust to millions as she becomes TikTok star

A Holocaust survivor has become a TikTok star at the age of 85 thanks to her teenage grandson.

Thu, 23 Mar, 2023

United Arab Emirates says it will teach school pupils about the Holocaust

The United Arab Emirates will begin teaching lessons on the Holocaust at primary and secondary schools across the country, officials at the country’s embassy in the US said.

Mon, 09 Jan, 2023

Germany marks 70 years of compensating Holocaust survivors

The organisation handling claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis said Germany has agreed to pay approximately 1. 2 billion euros (£1. 04 billion) for home care and compensation for Holocaust survivors living around the world in 2023.

Thu, 15 Sep, 2022

Berlin police investigate Palestinian president’s Holocaust comments

Berlin police have opened a preliminary investigation against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over his comments this week that Israel had committed “50 Holocausts” against Palestinians.

Fri, 19 Aug, 2022

German chancellor condemns Holocaust denial in call with Israeli PM

German chancellor Olaf Scholz told Israel’s prime minister that he condemns any attempts to deny or downplay the Holocaust, offering reassurance after Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas sparked outrage with remarks to that effect earlier this week.

Thu, 18 Aug, 2022

Holocaust survivors mark 80 years since mass Paris round-up

France is holding ceremonies to commemorate the 80th anniversary of a mass round-up of Jews in Paris under the Nazi occupation.

Sun, 17 Jul, 2022

Poland’s president denounces Russian war in Ukraine at Holocaust event

Polish President Andrzej Duda denounced Russia’s war against Ukraine as he joined Holocaust survivors and people from around the world at an annual observance at the former site of Auschwitz.

Thu, 28 Apr, 2022

Israel halts for annual Holocaust day and honours 6m murdered Jews

Sirens blared across Israel as the country came to a standstill in an annual ritual honouring the 6m Jews murdered during the Holocaust.

Thu, 28 Apr, 2022

Survivors unite to deliver message on Holocaust remembrance

Holocaust survivors around the world have united to deliver a message on the dangers of unchecked hate and the importance of remembrance at a time of rising global antisemitism.

Thu, 28 Apr, 2022

Mick Clifford: Along with the truth, language is one of the first deaths when a despot goes to war

It's no surprise that Russia has banned describing its assault on Ukraine as it is. More remarkably, the UN appears to have bought into the propaganda

Thu, 10 Mar, 2022

World remembers Holocaust as antisemitism rises amid pandemic

Nazi forces killed 1.1 million people at Auschwitz, most of them Jews, but also Poles, Roma and others, and the site today stands as a powerful symbol of how hatred and indifference led to the Holocaust.

Thu, 27 Jan, 2022

Clodagh Finn: Horror of Holocaust not as remote as we sometimes like to think

Oliver Sears chart his family’s unspeakably difficult journey through the horrors of the Second World War in a new exhibition, ‘The Objects of Love’

Wed, 26 Jan, 2022

Thursday TV tips: The deception at the heart of Misha and the Wolves

The evolution of Irish dance examined in Steps of Freedom and they're down to three chefs in MasterChef

Thu, 16 Dec, 2021

Berlin police chief sorry for officers’ push-ups at Holocaust memorial

Berlin’s police chief has apologised for an incident in which officers were pictured practising push-ups on a part of the German capital’s memorial to the six million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust.

Mon, 01 Nov, 2021

Holocaust forum focuses on social media role in antisemitism

A global conference is focusing on the receding memory of the Holocaust.

Wed, 13 Oct, 2021

Cork activist to fight claims made by Holocaust denier group

“I was arrested for incitement to hatred when what they have done is illegal - Holocaust denial is a crime," said Fiona O'Leary.

Sun, 25 Jul, 2021

Paul Hosford: Rosa Parks and Nazis – why words used in the Dáil matter

The horrors of the Holocaust and racism and inequality in the US, used as examples by our politicians, happened to real people and their after-effects are still being dealt with

Sat, 17 Jul, 2021

Auschwitz Museum criticises Tipperary TD Mattie McGrath for 'mark of the beast' Nazi comparison

The independent Tipperary TD was speaking out against the Government's plans to introduce domestic Covid-19 certificates to reopen indoor dining

Tue, 13 Jul, 2021

Holocaust scholars ordered to apologise in Polish libel case

A court in Warsaw has ruled that two prominent Holocaust researchers must apologise to a woman who claimed her deceased uncle had been defamed in an historical work that suggested he helped kill Jews during the Second World War.

Tue, 09 Feb, 2021

Irish Examiner view: Use past to renew hope not hatred

The late Seamus Mallon’s withering analysis — “Sunningdale for slow learners” — about how difficult it was to make progress in a divided society may have lost some of its cutting edge, ironically, because time proved the accuracy of his judgement.

Fri, 29 Jan, 2021

Clodagh Finn: Why Holocaust Memorial Day is more important than ever

We must take note of what survivors have said: be alert to the dangers and be careful about words

Wed, 27 Jan, 2021

Irish Examiner view: Cruel lesson we forget at our peril

It’s more than two decades since brewers Beamish and Crawford invoked a slogan that if it was relevant then is even more relevant and reassuring today. The regional brewer promised that their stout was “consistency in a world gone mad”.

Fri, 20 Nov, 2020

Facebook updates policies to prohibit Holocaust denial content

The update follows a crackdown on other forms of hate speech, including the banning of a number of white supremacist groups, as well as content around militia groups and the QAnon conspiracy theory

Mon, 12 Oct, 2020

Irish Examiner View: We must keep lessons of history alive

Holocaust fades from memory

Fri, 18 Sep, 2020

A sad juxtaposition of events: Parties need to be specific on Brexit

It is difficult to know how to regard a coincidence unfolding this week.

Tue, 28 Jan, 2020

Mark Leonard: Holocaust not an excuse to promote nationalist agendas

Israel’s founders advocated a universalism of ‘complete equality’, whereas its current leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, has a narrow agenda, says Mark Leonard.

Tue, 28 Jan, 2020

Auschwitz anniversary: A people transformed

German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier, speaking at Israel’s national Holocaust Memorial said that he bowed his head in “deepest sorrow [for] the worst crime in the history of humanity”, committed by his countrymen.

Sat, 25 Jan, 2020

Ana Palacio: The resurgence of anti-Semitism is rampant and chilling

Seventy-five years after the liberation of Auschwitz, anti-Semitism is on the rise across the Western world. This trend, and the weak response to it, is a harbinger of democratic decay, writes Ana Palacio

Fri, 24 Jan, 2020

Holocaust commemorations - Antisemitic behaviour continues

More than 40 world leaders are expected to attend the Fifth World Holocaust Forum, marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation by the Soviet Union’s Red Army of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the most notorious of the Nazi’s death camps.

Thu, 23 Jan, 2020