Search results for

In a speech carried on state television Wednesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the Holocaust a myth. Steve Inskeep talks to Kasra Naji, a journalist in Tehran, about how the president's remarks are being viewed within the country.

NPR's Ari Shapiro reports on a court ruling that the U.S. government should compensate Hungarian Holocaust survivors and their descendents for millions of dollars worth of valuables stolen during World War II. Though the Nazis were the original culprits, the loot eventually ended up in the hands of U.S. troops.

Germany has reversed its decades-long opposition to opening its Holocaust archive. The files contain information on more than 17 million people who were murdered or forced into slave labor by the Nazis.

The guard shot at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington is dead. Park police say a gunman, identified as James Von Brunn, walked into the museum and exchanged fire with security guards. The suspect is in critical condition.

Eva Mozes was 10 years old in May 1944 when she and her twin sister, Miriam, and their family were taken from their hometown in Romania to the Nazi…

We remember Holocaust hero Marion Pritchard who died this month at the age of 96. She saved more than 100 Jews, many of them children, in her native Holland. Her son Ivor Pritchard shares stories.

In The Boy: A Holocaust Story, Dan Porat tells the story behind a photo taken during the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto that shows a young boy raising his arms in surrender to an SS soldier. Porat says the image represents the traumatic experience shared by many.

Berlin's controversial memorial to the Jews who died in the Holocaust is open to the public after years of controversy over its design. The first visitors Thursday shared their impressions on whether the memorial is too abstract. Some of them said it has the disorienting effect and helpless feeling that its architect tried to achieve.

The family of 88-year-old Arie Even said they were saddened not to be able to be with him during his final days. They were asked to stay away in order not to catch the virus.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com's World Memory Project allows people to sift online through hundreds of thousands of documents that previously required a painstaking manual search.