A number of celebs dig deep into their family’s lives during WWII for a new TV series, writes Georgia Humphreys

Incarcerated in Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps Zuzana Ruzickova somehow survived and went on to create the complete recordings of her beloved Bach, writes James Lawless.

This year marks the centenary of the Bauhaus.

There aren’t too many images in modern history as sad, as forceful a reality check as the 1938 one of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain waving his peace-in-our-time note on an English airfield after talks with Hitler in Munich.

The company whose founder created the "Little Trees" car air freshener claims Ryanair had infringed its registered trademark.

How apt it is that a statue outside the London headquarters of the BBC is of George Orwell, since it’s possible that his 1946 essay Politics and the English Language has not been read by those in the corporation’s upper echelons whose job it is to advise reporters on the words they should if, at all possible, avoid using.

It is hard to imagine that a remote, windswept part of Co Mayo was the setting for an event 75 years ago that changed the course of history.

Although undermined by its structure, and debatable points presented as unchallenged truths, Deborah Lipstadt’s book exposing bigotry and hate suffered by Jews is an essential read, writes Ronan Breathnach.

So that’s Monday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Founded by architect Walter Gropius in Weimar Germany in 1919 and closed by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus school has had a huge global influence on art, architecture and design.

We want to think of it as ancient history, but it isn’t. It was unspeakable, unforgiveable, and it has to be unforgettable.

Ahead of National Holocaust Memorial Day tomorrow, we talk to three of the four remaining survivors left in Ireland. Their stories have never been more important, writes Áilín Quinlan.

The biggest danger we face is not a straightforward revival of fascism, but rather a creeping shift in traditional conservatism towards the extreme populist right, says Michael Burleigh.

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which has played a pivotal role in the quest for global justice, writes TP O’Mahony.

Though Walter Scott wrote his famous line — “O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!” — more than 200 years before Washington’s “biggest ever” presidential inauguration, it is an appropriate prism through which to view anything coming from today’s American administration.

Pope Francis has called the practice of having an abortion after pre-natal tests have discovered possible birth defects a version of Nazi attempts to create a pure race by eliminating the weakest.

Defenders of racism and political incorrectness go for hysteria and witch hunting analogies to cover mild protest, writes Terry Prone

This week Dan MacCarthy looks at Kay Summersby's life on Inishbeg

The Taoiseach has accused TDs of “belittling the Holocaust” after a controversial Government advertising campaign was compared to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

Nightly now we see the appalling cruelty being inflicted on helpless Syrian citizens by their own government and by their Rusian and Iranian allies.

The Louvre Museum is putting 31 paintings on permanent display in an effort to find the rightful owners of artworks looted by Nazis during the Second World War.

Latest: A senior member of Britain's Jewish community has offered an apology to Jeremy Corbyn amid controversy over the Labour leader's message for Holocaust Memorial Day.

Before she moved to Kinsale in the 1960s, Elizabeth Friedlander had already fled the Nazis, designed covers for Penguin books and created her own typeface, writes Marjorie Brennan.

Arts editor Des O’Driscoll selects the must-see movies at the Cork Film Festival.

It includes works by Albrecht Duerer, Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro.

The president cannot be tamed, so it is time to put the national interest ahead of party politics, says Nina L Khrushcheva.  

Donald Trump’s yearning for authoritarian rule is clear for all to see, writes James Q Whitman.

Japan's deputy prime minister has retracted a comment that seemed to praise the motives of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

It is time for Ireland to stop procrastinating, show some real vision, and summon up the courage to formally recognise the state of Palestine, writes TP O’Mahony.

Donald Trump has been criticised by a British Cabinet minister and a junior colleague for not singling out white supremacist groups for criticism following deadly unrest in Virginia.

Theresa May is facing renewed calls to cancel a state visit for Donald Trump over his response to deadly unrest in Virginia.

Sabina Higgins has said anti-Semitism has been reawakened due to right-wing politics and warned that “poisonous ideologies” must not be tolerated.

Sabina Higgins has called for the rejection of “poisonous ideologies” and the “politics of hate”.

A young Corkman fighting Islamic State (IS) in Syria describes life in the “dark mess” of the Raqqa front.

The Shortest History of Germany by James Hawes Old Street Publishing Review: Des Breen

THE winner of the 2014 European Book Prize, Hannah’s Dress might easily have been titled Pascale’s Address, as French writer and journalist Pascale Hugues observes a century of German history through the prism of the Berlin street where she has lived for 25 years.

They have parted company in the same week that she called for a "final solution" following the Manchester attack

In 1946, when this novel begins, the world was still coming to terms with the horrors of the death camps of Nazi Germany and elsewhere. 

Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig adhered to the dictum that ‘every age gets the diseases it deserves’ as translator Will Stone tells JP O’Malley.

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has paid homage to the tens of thousands of French Jews killed in the Holocaust with a sombre, simple message to voters: Never again.

What possessed seemingly cultured men to implement a policy of barbarism against the Jews of Europe? Laurence Rees seeks the answer in what JP O’Malley considers to be a magisterial undertaking of research.

The enduring power of symbolism and the different ways in which society deals with it.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has used a visit to a Second World War memorial in Italy to declare that the United States will stand up to aggressors who harm civilians.

Irish-born merchant seamen were sent to concentration camps because they refused to work for the Germans, new documents show.