US comedian Joan Rivers left money in her will for some of her favourite charities, including Guide Dogs for the Blind, Jewish Guild Healthcare and Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

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The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has identified dozens of former members of Nazi mobile death squads who might still be alive, and is pushing the German government for an investigation.

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has identified dozens of former members of Nazi mobile death squads who might still be alive, and is pushing the German government for an investigation.

Japanese police are investigating after dozens of copies of Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl and scores of books about the young Holocaust victim were vandalised in Tokyo public libraries.

Japanese police are investigating after dozens of copies of Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl and scores of books about the young Holocaust victim were vandalised in Tokyo public libraries.

Laszlo Csatary, a former police officer indicted in June by Hungarian authorities for abusing Jews and contributing to their deportation to Nazi death camps during the Second World War, has died. He was 98.

A poster campaign aimed at tracking down the last surviving Nazi war criminals has been launched in Germany.

A 93-year-old man who was deported from the US for lying about his Nazi past was arrested by German authorities yesterday on allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, Stuttgart prosecutors said.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend the summit of the Nonaligned Movement of mainly developing countries in Tehran next week despite strong opposition from Israel and Jewish groups outraged at Iran’s calls for the destruction of Israel, the UN announced today.

Hungarian prosecutors say they have taken into custody and charged with war crimes a man suspected of taking part in the deportation of Jews in 1944.

Hungary is investigating whether a Holocaust-era war criminal has been living in the capital Budapest, as international and domestic groups clamoured for him to be placed on trial.

Hungary is investigating whether a Holocaust-era war criminal has been living in Budapest, as international and domestic groups called for him to be placed on trial.

The number one target on a list of Nazi war criminals, known to be still alive, has been found in Hungary.

The future of a film about ancient Jewish warrior Judah Maccabee may be close to flickering out, following a rejected script and allegations of anti-Semitic comments by Mel Gibson.

Polish authorities have reopened an investigation into Second World War crimes committed at Auschwitz and its satellite camps which was closed in the 1980s because of the country’s isolation behind the Iron Curtain.

German prosecutors have reopened hundreds of dormant investigations of former Nazi death camp guards and others who might now be charged under a new precedent set by the conviction of retired US car worker John Demjanjuk.

A 97-year-old man has been cleared of war crimes charges stemming from a raid by Hungarian forces in Serbia during the Second World War.

A 97-year-old Hungarian man has gone on trial for war crimes over his role in the 1942 killings of civilians in Serbia.

A 96-YEAR-OLD former Hungarian officer has been charged with involvement in the killing of about 1,000 civilians in Serbia during World War II, the Budapest Prosecutors’ Office said.

A Japanese discount chain has stopped selling a Nazi costume after complaints from a Jewish organisation.

The world’s third most-wanted Nazi suspect has died before he could be brought to trial in Germany.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama warned that an obscure US Christian pastor’s plan to burn the Koran tomorrow to mark September 11 could provoke al-Qaida suicide bombings, as Asian countries urged Washington to prevent the act.

ONE of the world’s most wanted Nazi suspects has been charged in Germany with the murder of 430,000 Jews at a concentration camp.

POLISH police have recovered the infamous Nazi sign stolen from the former Auschwitz death camp, cut into three pieces, and said yesterday it appeared to have been taken by common criminals seeking profit.

Nazi war crimes suspect John Demjanjuk will go on trial in Munich today in a case that breaks new ground in Germany’s pursuit of Holocaust perpetrators.

THE memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a Facebook page, hoping that the popular social networking site will help it reach young people around the globe and engage them in discussions about the former Nazi death camp and the Holocaust.

LIBERTAS performed an astonishing U-turn last night after earlier claiming that a leading Jewish human rights organisation was “beneath contempt”.

ACCUSED Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk is fit to stay in jail, German prosecutors said yesterday after the 89-year-old arrived from the United States to face charges he helped kill 29,000 Jews in 1943.

Doctors have determined that John Demjanjuk is fit enough to remain in custody at Munich's Stadelheim prison.

Suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, deported from the US to face charges of helping murder of 29,000 people, was transferred to a German prison today.

An 87-year-old Australian citizen accused of killing a Jewish teenager in Hungary during World War II has asked an Australian court to prevent his extradition to Hungary.

An SS concentration camp doctor accused of murdering hundreds of prisoners will be named today as the world’s most-wanted Nazi war criminal.

THE art collectors whose artworks and artefacts made up Limerick’s prestigious Hunt Museum were yesterday cleared of any links to Nazi Germany.

An Italian military judge has suspended a work-release permit for a former Nazi SS captain convicted for his role in a 1944 massacre, court officials said today.

Mel Gibson’s latest apology drew mixed reactions from Jewish leaders, with some saying they were willing to help the actor address the anti-Semitic slurs he made during a drunken-driving arrest and others demanding proof of his repentance.

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre today expressed concern over the possibility that Iran’s hard-line president might attend the World Cup in Germany and urged Berlin to declare him “persona non grata”.

LOSING another round in court, John Demjanjuk, the retired auto worker accused of being a Nazi concentration camp guard, may be running out of legal options in his decades-long deportation battle.

Hungary has launched an investigation into the case of a suspected former Nazi collaborator who may have been involved in genocide during the Second World War, authorities said today.

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre said today it had passed the names of four suspected former Nazi criminals to German authorities so that they can be brought to justice before they die.

A NAZI war criminal known as Doctor Death for his experiments that killed hundreds of prisoners during WWII is reported to have been found in Spain.

A Nazi war criminal known as “doctor death” for his experiments that killed hundreds of prisoners during World War II has been found in Spain, an Israeli website reported today, but Spanish police said they had not yet found the man.

A memorial service is to be held in Vienna, Austria, today for holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Wiesenthal who died yesterday aged 96.

PRICELESS antique furnishings and tapestries in Bunratty Castle are being assessed to ensure they do not contain works stolen by the Nazis.