Canadian holocaust survivor Max Eisen, 90, is taking part in USC's Shoah Foundation Dimensions in Testimony program.

When 17-year-old Siegmund Listwa was liberated from a Nazi death march by U.S. forces in 1945, he made his way to Prague to catch a train back to his native Poland. When he reached the Polish border a few weeks after the war, he was...

On the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, survivors returned to the death camp where more than a million people were killed.

This may be the last major anniversary at which survivors are present in significant numbers.

Seventy-five years after the liberation of Auschwitz, anti-Semitic crimes in Germany have risen by 20 per cent. CBC's Margaret Evans looks at the possible causes and the impact it's having on the Jewish community.

A Polish MEP has refused to apologise after sharing an image on social media, depicting a herd of chained cattle wearing the striped prison uniforms of Nazi camps. Sylwia Spurek, of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats,...

January 27, 2020 will mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz -- the Nazi-operated concentration camp where more than a million people met their deaths during World War II. Now a new film tells the story of boxer Tadeusz...

As Holocaust survivors age and pass away, Holocaust educators are using virtual technology such as holograms to preserve first-hand accounts.

The grandson of an Auschwitz commander, Rainer Hoess, travels the world to tell his family’s story as part of an effort to combat hate. Hoess came to Toronto to speak at Holocaust Education Week.

A Saskatoon artist is using her portraits to examine two groups that suffered through oppression; in a way, bringing them face to face.

Thousands have attended the annual March of the Living in Budapest to commemorate victims of the Holocaust. This year the torchlit procession honoured Scottish missionary teacher Jane Haining, who refused to abandon her Jewish pupils...

The National's Adrienne Arsenault looks back at the life and work of journalist Joe Schlesinger.

The National's Adrienne Arsenault looks back at the life and work of journalist Joe Schlesinger.

The Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler tested the limits of Canada's humanity in the lead up to the Second World War and Canada's government failed that test "miserably," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.

A new exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust remembers the Jewish child refugees sent overseas in the 1930s by their parents from a continental Europe that was falling to German conquest. The exhibition marks the 80th...

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School's newest graduates carry with them a tragic burden, but the memory of the deadly mass shooting should not hold them back, said Darren Levine, an English teacher at the school. The senior class...

Bruce Gendelman's travels inspired the artist to depict sites of Holocaust atrocities in his latest exhibition. The project explores feelings of "horror" and "desperation."

It is the story of a legal battle for truth. American historian Deborah E. Lipstadt versus English author David Irving. He accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier. That is the plot of the movie ‘Denial’. Timothy...

From beyond the grave the harrowing stories of the Holocaust are being told. The UK National Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire is in stark contrast to the horrors faced by those incarcerated in the Nazi death camps. Now at the centre...

David Johnston pays respects as part of Middle East tour

PM makes emotional stop at site of former Nazi death camp in southwestern Poland

Little is known about the hunt for Nazi criminal Adolph Eichman. Most people have heard about his abduction by Mossad in Argentina in 1960, his trial in Israel and his hanging. But what many do not know is that the man responsible for...

The biggest exhibition of Holocaust art outside Israel was opened in Berlin by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The artwork is by survivors and victims like the water colour paintings by Nelly Toll. She was just six years old when she...

Hungary has only ever once won an Oscar in 1981 when István Szabó‘s “Mephisto” triumphed as Best Foreign Language movie. This year it may have its best chance in a long time of repeating that as “Son of Saul” has Cannes and Golden Globe...