Staff at the Auschwitz museum have uncovered jewellery secretly hidden in an enamel mug since the liberation of the wartime Nazi death camp in 1945.

In November 2005, the United Nations officially designated January 27 as Holocaust Remembrance Day under Resolution 60/7.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

A holocaust survivor who saw the infamous “work brings freedom” sign in Nazi concentration camps which took the lives of 35 of his relatives has demanded developer Johnny Ronan apologises for using the term as evidence of his alleged mistreatment during the crash.

A 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served at the Auschwitz death camp was convicted on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder and sentenced to four years in prison.

Two British teenagers who were suspected of stealing items that belonged to prisoners at Auschwitz have been released with suspended sentences.

A former SS sergeant has described in chilling detail how cattle cars full of Jews were brought to the Auschwitz death camp, the people stripped of their belongings, and then most led directly into gas chambers.

A former Auschwitz guard who has lived in America since 1952 is in custody facing possible extradition to Germany after being accused of helping to kill 216,000 Jewish men, women and children at the notorious Nazi death camp.

Auction site eBay has apologised and removed 30 items from sale after it was found to be selling Holocaust memorabilia.

Israel’s Prime Minister warned today that the Jewish state will do everything to defend itself against any threat.

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.

THE red brick barracks that housed starving inmates are sinking into ruin. Time has warped victims’ leather shoes into strange shapes. Hair sheared to make cloth is slowly turning to dust.

A Swedish man has been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for instigating the theft last year of the notorious “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work Sets You Free”) sign from the former Auschwitz death camp.

Three men were jailed today for stealing the notorious 'Arbeit Macht Frei' ('Work Sets You Free') sign from the Auschwitz memorial site last year.

Elderly Auschwitz survivors gathered in the snow at the site of the former death camp today to mark the 65th anniversary of its liberation.

As it is, though, Hollywood apart, most Americans seem to think that Polanski must have what is coming to him and that those who call for bygones to be bygones fail to understand that the law is bigger than any of thosewho break it.

A drunken man from Kuwait, claiming he had a bomb, briefly held three Jewish teenagers captive today in their room in a Polish hotel where they were staying for Holocaust commemoration ceremonies, police said.

THE UN cultural watchdog updated its name for the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland yesterday to reflect its German Nazi role.

Poland’s chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, was punched and sprayed with what appeared to be pepper spray by an unidentified man in Warsaw, but escaped without injuries from what police said may have been an anti-Semitic attack.

Poland has prepared an enthusiastic welcome for the German-born Pope Benedict XVI, who begins a four-day visit on Thursday to the homeland of his predecessor that will include a symbolically powerful visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp.

Poland’s new conservative government wants to change the official name of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz on the Unesco world heritage registry, an official said today.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, accompanied by 20 survivors of the Holocaust and their grandchildren, joined thousands of people today in an emotional memorial for the victims of the Nazis at the biggest World War II death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau.

A HIGH-LEVEL steering group will ensure the Government’s anti-racism blueprint is implemented, the Taoiseach said yesterday.

The millions of people who were exterminated in Nazi death camps will never be allowed to be forgotten, Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy said today.

GYPSIES from across Europe met at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland yesterday to remember hundreds of thousands of their ancestors killed by the Nazis and call for wider recognition of the Gypsy Holocaust.

Gypsies from across Europe met at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland today to remember hundreds of thousands of their ancestors killed by the Nazis and call for wider recognition of the Gypsy Holocaust.

THREE Israeli F-15 jets piloted by descendants of Holocaust survivors flew over a former Nazi concentration camp yesterday.

Ignoring protests and a heavy cloud cover, three Israeli F-15 jets piloted by descendants of Holocaust survivors circled over the former Nazi concentration camp today