Articles tagged as Holocaust

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  Church of England Says Christians Must Repent for Past Antisemitism

  Document acknowledges Christians’ part in persecution of Jewish people over centuries.

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  Pope Francis, Visiting Auschwitz, Asks God for the ‘Grace to Cry’

  Pope Francis walked in the footsteps of his two predecessors as he visited the former extermination camp at Auschwitz, where he paid silent homage to the more than one million victims.

• Going Beyond 'Om': Yoga Masters Nurture Holocaust Survivors with Food

  The 76-year-old Esti Libeir is one of an estimated 210,000 Holocaust survivors living in Israel, of which one quarter are living in poverty, many more of them without the support of family networks.

• 'Gathering The Fragments' Exhibit Marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day

  When Stella Knobel's family fled World War II Poland in 1939, the only thing the 7-year-old girl could take with her was her teddy bear. For the next six years, the stuffed animal never left her side as the family wandered through the Soviet Union, to Iran and finally the Holy Land.

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  Study Highlights German Foreign Ministry's Role in Holocaust
  Historians have found that the German Foreign Ministry was far more deeply involved in the Holocaust than had been thought. A new study commissioned by former minister Joschka Fischer in 2005 is due to present its findings this week, and concludes that diplomats went on covering up the past for decades.