A vast new memorial to victims of the Belzec death camp was inaugurated yesterday, ending decades of neglect at the site where 500,000 Jews perished in 1942. A vast new memorial to victims of the ...

BERLIN – BERLIN (AP) — The world's third most wanted Nazi suspect was involved in the entire process of killing Jews at the Belzec death camp: from taking victims from trains to pushing them into gas ...

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NEW YORK, July 7(JTA) — A Holocaust survivor has dropped his lawsuit against the American Jewish Committee over a $4 million memorial the group is building at one of the deadliest Nazi concentration ...

How best to honor the memory of half a million Jews buried in the horrific and long-neglected Belzec death camp in southeastern Poland? That’s the heart of a running dispute pitting several rabbis and ...

A dispute over a Nazi death camp memorial pitting a New York activist rabbi against the American Jewish Committee and the Israeli and Polish governments is turning personal and, literally, dirty. The ...

Several years ago the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum decided to build a Holocaust memorial for the 600,000 Jews murdered at Belzec. Last June, I warned on these pages that “Despite assurances ...

In the summer of 1993, my father and I visited the site of the extermination camp of Belzec in eastern Poland, where my grandparents were among half a million Jews murdered by the Nazis in 1942. That ...

One of the world's most-wanted Nazi suspects has died before he was due to stand trial in Germany. Samuel Kunz died aged 89 on November 18 according to Bonn's state court after being charged in July ...

Closing last night at the 20th edition of Critics’ Week at la Mostra with the screening in "special event" of the documentary Belzec by Frenchman Guillaume Moscovitz. Set in Poland, not far from the ...

A cursory search on Twitter for @AuschwitzMuseum and you'll find, in seconds, that it has 1.5m followers. With films like 'Schindler's List', Auschwitz-Birkenau has come to symbolise the entirety of ...