Auschwitz

The Prime Minister said studying the Holocaust would become a ‘critical, vital part’ of the curriculum.

The annual march took place on what is Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Jewish calendar.

She spent the later years of her life warning of the re-emergence of far-right populism and discrimination against minorities across Europe

IT seemed a little incongruous to be packing suncream, shorts and sunnies for a trip that was going to include a trip to the site of one of the darkest atrocities in human history.

Lily Ebert has been awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit for her work on educating people about the Holocaust.

OUTGOING Education Minister Peter Weir has said he is keen to see a restoration of a programme that teaches young people about the Holocaust.

ON THIS day 75 years ago Soviet troops liberated prisoners from the Auschwitz complex of camps and uncovered to the world the true horror of the Nazi regime, in particular the genocide it had been carrying out primarily against members of the Jewish faith but also against other ethnic groups which it considered not worthy of life.

AS A child, Michael Rosen was curious about the Jewish relatives his father said were around at the beginning of the war but not at the end of it.

IT was the 23rd of February 1993 but I remember it as if it was yesterday.

Holocaust Memorial Day will be observed on Sunday, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 27 1945. Fr Dominic McGrattan reflects on the catastrophe of that genocide, and finds hope in 'humanity's angels' who build 'compassion and grace, tolerance and beauty, justice and generosity'