A best-selling writer has admitted her supposed autobiography of a Jewish child who lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust was fiction, not fact.

Poland’s parliament today honoured Irena Sendler, a 97-year-old credited with saving 2,500 Jews during the Holocaust, at a ceremony during which the country’s president said she deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.

A CHILD'S ring. Twisted reading glasses. A few gold coins... scraps of personal dignity, hurriedly buried in a last act of defiance to keep them from falling into Nazi hands.

Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz has ordered a drastic cut in the the timetable for withdrawing from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank this summer in an effort to hinder Jewish extremists bent on disrupting the pullout.

Roman Polanski has found the young lead for his next film, Oliver Twist, based on Charles Dickens’ classic novel.

For nearly 60 years, Binyamin Shilon believed his sister was among the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Now, he has been reunited with her.

The Pianist is the story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, whose promising career as a musician is cut short by the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II.

The Cannes Palme d'Or went to this story, a true one, of the Polish pianist Wladyslaw Spilman who survived the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto during WW2; one wonders why!

Roman Polanski has won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his film about the Holocaust, The Pianist.