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Israeli actress Gal Gadot, best known for her role in Wonder Woman, hosted Holocaust survivor Celina Biniaz, 91, at her home on Tuesday to relate her story to fellow Hollywood A-listers.

World Wrestling Entertainment apologized Friday for using an image from the Auschwitz concentration camp to promote one of its matches during the first night of WrestleMania 39 last weekend.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) compared the policy of turning migrants away at the U.S. border under Title 42 reasons to the Holocaust, when Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe were sometimes turned away at U.S. shores.

Pope Francis recalled the importance of remembering the Holocaust Wednesday, two days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates will begin teaching about the Holocaust in history classes in primary and secondary schools across the country, the country’s embassy in the U.S. says.

Whoopi Goldberg has once again walked back her comments about the Holocaust as pressure mounts for Disney’s ABC to fire her from The View.

Disney’s ABC is coming under pressure to fire “The View’s” Whoopi Goldberg after she doubled down on her comments about the Holocaust, claiming in a recent interview that the murder of six million Jewish people during World War II wasn’t racially motivated.

A former Nazi concentration camp secretary was found guilty of complicity by a German court Tuesday in the murders of over 10,000 prisoners during the Holocaust.

BERLIN — Holocaust survivors from around the globe are marking the third day of Hanukkah together with a virtual ceremony as Jews worldwide worry about a sharp increase in antisemitism in Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere.

Pope Francis on Saturday signed a decree approving the beatification of a Polish family who were killed by Nazis for hiding Jews during World War II.

Pope Francis employed his strongest rhetoric to date Wednesday in condemning Russia’s war on Ukraine, tying it to the attempted extermination of the Jewish people during World War II.

Kanye West released screenshots of text messages and a video after his dinner with former President Donald Trump that suggest in addition to dining with the rapper this week, the former president met with an openly white nationalist and Holocaust denier named Nick Fuentes.

Israel’s envoy at the U.N. has urged the global body to deny Iran’s Ebrahim Raisi a platform with which to address the upcoming General Assembly, a day after the Iranian president cast doubt on the Holocaust and called Israel a “false regime’ in an interview on CBS’ 60 Minutes.

Historian and Holocaust scholar Rafael Medoff told the Times of Israel that Ken Burns’s new documentary, The U.S. and the Holocaust, which airs on PBS this week, whitewashes President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s wartime record on saving Jews.

The filmmakers behind the new film Beautiful Blue Eyes, which stars the late Roy Scheider as a Holocaust survivor, say that Facebook has banned them from advertising or promoting the movie as the title breaches its policy against content that “includes direct or indirect assertions or implications about a person’s race.” After Breitbart News requested comment from Mark Zuckerberg and the Masters of the Universe, the company claimed the banning was “made in error.”

BERLIN — Berlin police have opened a preliminary investigation against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over his comments this week that Israel had committed “50 Holocausts” against Palestinians.

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas told Germans on Tuesday, in the presence of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, that Israel had committed “50 Holocausts.”

BERLIN — The head of a major art show in Germany has resigned after an exhibit featuring antisemitic elements prompted an outcry at the event’s opening last month.

Paris – French President Emmanuel Macron will on Sunday mark the 80th anniversary of the wartime round-up of Jews in France at a former railway station used to deport them to Auschwitz.

WARSAW, Poland — Special investigators in Poland say they have found two mass graves containing the ashes of at least 8,000 Poles slain by the Nazis during World War II in forest executions that the Nazis later tried to hide by incinerating the bodies and planting trees on the burial pits.

President Joe Biden said he will discuss dormant two-state solution for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during his trip to Israel, the Palestinian territories and Saudi Arabia, calling it the “best way” for peace.

President Joe Biden wasted no time after landing in Israel on Wednesday to commit an embarrassing brain-freeze moment.

Israel and Poland have agreed to restore ambassadors, essentially ending a political spat that began a year ago after Warsaw passed a bill limiting Jews from reclaiming property lost in the Holocaust.

On Tuesday German prosecutors sought a five-year prison sentence for a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, the oldest person charged with being an accessory to murder during the Holocaust.

In a modern day blood libel, an Iranian official appeared on public television delivering a lecture to foreign students where he questioned the Holocaust, claimed Hitler was Jewish, and accused Israel of sexually abusing Arab children and harvesting their organs for the benefit of wealthy “westerners” and “Zionist-Jews.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologized to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for his foreign minister’s claims Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood, Israel said on Thursday.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday accused Israel of supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine, a day after Israel expressed outrage over Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s claim that Hitler had Jewish blood.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett marked Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday in the presence of the head of Germany’s parliament, saying the memories of Nazi atrocities were part of the Jewish people’s genetic makeup.

Whoopi Goldberg, has called for the royal family to apologise for the British Empire and its role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Ukraine’s intelligence services are  working in “close cooperation” with their Israeli counterparts, a senior aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s said Thursday according to the Haaretz daily.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said Israel was spearheading many efforts to hold talks between his country and Russia and suggested Jerusalem might host a peace summit between the two sides.

Hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a bitter speech to the Israeli parliament on Sunday condemning Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s mediation efforts with Russian President Vladimir Putin as an attempt to mediate “between good and evil,” the Ukrainain leader reversed course and said his country was “grateful” to Israel’s prime minister.

Israeli officials have criticized Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky for invoking the Holocaust during his speech about Russia’s invasion.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed Israeli lawmakers via Zoom in a fiery speech on Sunday, and called on Israel to help prevent a Russian “final solution.”

An Israeli woman last week helped two Ukrainian sisters fleeing the Russian invasion in their hometown find refuge in Israel, decades after the sisters’ grandmother hid the Israeli woman’s grandmother from the Nazis.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Tuesday claimed the Ukrainian war is a “holocaust,” which necessitates at least $12 billion of America taxpayer relief money to remedy.