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.

The UN Security Council today expressed serious concern at the escalating situation in Gaza and called on Israel and the Palestinians to immediately halt all violence..