A historian has been accused of glorifying the Nazi regime in a new history of their brutal hold on power in Austria during World War II. Image shows head of Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DOEW) Gerhard Baumgartner, 65, undated photo. He criticized a brochure written by historian Johannes Hofinger…
A woman who lived through two world wars and is verified as the world's second-oldest living person has just turned 116. Tekla Juniewicz, who lives in Gliwice in southern Poland, celebrated her latest birthday on Friday, 10th June. She was born in Krupsko, near Lviv, in what is now Ukraine…
An American tourist wearing a Russia shirt has been arrested in the Ukraine for disrupting an Independence Day event before calling arresting officers “Nazis”. The incident took place in the Ukrainian city of Odessa ahead of the Independence Day of Ukraine, observed on 24th August with National Flag Day celebrated…
A former classmate of diary writer Anne Frank who was murdered by the Nazis has laid one of the first stones in the new Namur Holocaust Memorial in Amsterdam. Jacqueline van Maarsen, 91, laid the brick in an emotional ceremony at Weesperstraat, Amsterdam, on Wednesday, 23rd September. Mrs van Maarsen…
This sculpture created by a British artist has been picked as a memorial to the homosexual victims of the Nazis to be built in Vienna. The Austrian capital has picked the work of art by Marc Quinn to be used when they build a memorial to the homosexual victims of…
