New, proposed legislation would bring a permanent New York State Holocaust memorial to the Empire State Plaza.

Dubbed "Germany's forgotten genocide", and described by historians as the first genocide of the 20th Century, the systematic ...

Namibia honoured the victims of mass killings during German colonial rule with an inaugural memorial day on Wednesday, as ...

May is Jewish American Heritage Month, a time to recognize the history and contributions Jews have made to our country.

The point was made by several speakers that there cannot be memory without knowledge, and that lack of knowledge leads to ...

Namibia has marked colonial genocide with a memorial day for the first time in history after years of pressure on Germany to ...

Forty years before the Holocaust, Germany used concentration camps and pseudoscientific experiments to torture and kill more than 70,000 Africans in what was then called South West Africa. German ...

Clarence Matsumura grew up in Granger, Wyoming, and was later incarcerated at Heart Mountain. He was sent overseas to fight ...

The Central Council of Armenians in Germany and the Diocese of the Armenian Church in Germany hosted a memorial ceremony on ...

Jewish director Erwin Simsensohn recently put on an opera about the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. He tells DW ...

A woman allegedly stabbed 18 people at Hamburg Central Station, leaving six in life-threatening condition. The suspect was ...