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A still image from Paul Emmanuel’s ‘Remember Dismember’, a cyclical video looped so as to have no “beginning” or “end”

June 16: Redemption through negation

When we rebel and part ways with the barbarism of the apartheid and the democratic state, we will keep the memory of this historic event alive for current and future generations

(Canadian Museum of Human Rights (CMHR) / Aaron Cohen)

Artivism: a powerful tool for reconciliation

An exhibition with collections from around the world asks us to reflect on mass atrocity to enact a just future

Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaks during a debate about the Holocaust Bill at the lower house of Parliament.

Poland to amend controversial Holocaust law

The amendment is designed to remove fines or criminal penalties for anyone found guilty of ascribing Nazi crimes to the Polish state

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Germany’s Nazi hunters in final straight of race against time

For decades after the war, the German government showed little haste to track down many of those involved in the organised mass murder

Guiding light: A crowd watches the passing of the Kwibuka Flame of Remembrance in Kigali

The intolerable loss of dignity

Obliterating being human is beyond our comprehension and so we invoke evil and dignity – but the wound is indelible

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty)

Poland’s president signs controversial Holocaust bill into law

The law sets fines or a maximum three-year jail term for anyone who describes Nazi German death camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau as being Polish

Groening has been living at home despite his conviction

‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’, 96, fit to serve jail term: German court

Oskar Gröning was found guilty in July 2015 of being an accessory to the murders of 300 000 people at the Nazi death camp.

History lesson: Auschwitz death camp survivor Stefan Sot.

Letters to the editor: May 29 to June 5 2015

Readers write in about contraceptives, Holocaust education and the danger of essentialising.

Oskar Groening.

‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’ goes on trial in Germany

Former Nazi officer dubbed the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz" went on trial in Germany, with almost 70 Holocaust survivors relatives at the court.

The living march, lest we forget

After escaping the Nazis in Poland, it took Irene Klass 70 years to return to the ghetto and her home. This is her story.

German chancellor Angela Merkel speeches after the first poll results indicated a historic win.

Remembering Auschwitz 70 years on

Survivors return to Auschwitz on the 70th anniversary after victims were set free as leaders sound alarm.

The house where lives Dutch-born convicted Nazi Klaas Carel Faber in Ingolstadt

Dutch Nazi fugitive dies at 90

Nazi war criminal, Klaas Carel Faber, who escaped from a Dutch jail and lived as a fugitive in Germany for 60 years has died at the age of 90.

Netanyahu’s war talk ups the ante in Iranian standoff

Netanyahu’s war talk ups the ante in Iranian standoff

An uncompromising speech in the US by Israel’s prime minister has persuaded the public back home that war with Iran is possible, perhaps even likely.

Musical ‘masterpiece’ captures horror of Auschwitz

Opera composed by a Polish Jew and based on a survivor’s novel makes its British debut.

In the name of the mother: Ashes go to Treblinka

A Polish expatriate’s last wish is to be buried at the site of her Jewish family’s death place: A death camp called Treblinka.

Israel outraged over Auschwitz theft

Israel on Friday condemned as a "declaration of war" the theft of the "Arbeit macht frei" sign from the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland.

Thousands gather to remember Holocaust

Thousands of Jews and other people from around the world gathered in southern Poland on Thursday to march through the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in memory of the…

World gathers to remember Auschwitz

World leaders were on Thursday to stand side-by-side with about 1Â 000 survivors of the Auschwitz death camp for an emotional ceremony under a blanket of snow to mark the camp’s…