A FIRE swept through a barrack at the former Nazi death camp of Majdanek, destroying more than half the building and possibly 10,000 shoes of Holocaust victims, officials said yesterday.

A fire swept through a barrack at the former Nazi death camp of Majdanek in Poland, destroying more than half the building and possibly 10,000 shoes of Holocaust victims.

Pope Benedict XVI pledged today to remember the millions of Jews killed in the Holocaust.

US president George Bush arrived at Israel’s official Holocaust memorial today, visiting exhibits that detail the Nazi extermination of European Jews.

Igniting a public uproar, some Jewish settlers are to start wearing orange stars in a provocative campaign comparing the government’s Gaza withdrawal plan to the Nazi Holocaust.