During WWII tiny French villages were used to help Jewish children escape the Holocaust. Caroline Moorehead, who discovered the little known story, spoke to Richard Fitzpatrick.

I believe in the sun though it is late in rising. I believe in love though it is absent. I believe in God though He is silent.

Part of a wrought-iron gate at the former Dachau concentration camp bearing the Nazis’ cynical slogan Work Sets You Free has been stolen.

Liz O’ Brien ticked off her continental bucket list with a Contiki ‘European Highlights’ tour in London, Paris, Nice, Monaco, the French Riviera, Florence, Pisa, Rome, Rhine Valley, St Goar, Munich, Edam and Amsterdam    

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has visited the remains of the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau in southern Germany, where more than 43,000 people were killed by the Nazis from 1933 to 1945.

Anti-war oratorio ‘A Child of Our Time’ will open Cork choral festival, says Jo Kerrigan.

At least 30 children were injured, some of them seriously, when the bus they were travelling in overturned on a major road in southern Germany today.

Treblinka: A Survivor’s Memory

EVEN if you arrived in Cambodia knowing absolutely nothing of its recent history, it would only take a few hours before you noticed something disturbing.

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Treblinka, Chil Rajchman, MacLehose, €19.95

RHINO’S Great Big Itch! by Natalie Chivers (Little Tiger €7.10). An itch inside the ear is an annoying thing to deal with, but for a rhino with four heavy legs and no fingers to probe the irritant, it is extra frustrating.

A LEADING choir will perform in Dachau, Germany, this weekend as part of special celebrations marking the centenary of the birth of Professor Aloys Fleischmann after whom the choir is named.

CORK City libraries have, once again, performed a noteworthy public service, principally through the efforts of librarian Liam Ronayne and Kitty Buckley of the music library.

The infamous iron sign over the gate to the Auschwitz memorial site with the words “Arbeit Macht Frei” – German for “Work Sets You Free” – has been stolen.

A German coffee chain has dropped an advertising campaign that featured a slogan used by the Nazis on the entrance gate to the Buchenwald concentration camp.

A group of elderly Holocaust survivors came forward yesterday with accounts of a death squad they formed after World War II to take revenge on their Nazi persecutors, recounting a brazen operation in which they poisoned hundreds of SS officers.

UKRAINIAN president Viktor Yushchenko, who visited Auschwitz yesterday, recalled his father’s ordeal in the death camp he described as a “sacred place” for him and his family.

“EVERYONE shall have the right to life, liberty and security of person.” So runs article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a beacon of hope after an era of barbarism.

THE story sounds extraordinary - but then Michael D Higgins is no ordinary politician.

THOUSANDS of Iraqi children are likely to die if there is a Gulf War, according to an unpublished report.