The Holocaust

Stories related to the genocide of European Jews during the second World war

Holocaust, the 1978 TV series that helped Germany break the silence about its past

As the world remembers the Holocaust, some Germans see a period ahead that echoes the widespread amnesia in the postwar period

Mon Jan 27 2025 - 14:50

‘I’m appalled we’re going through senseless anti-Semitism again,’ says survivor of Auschwitz women’s orchestra

Television: On Holocaust Remembrance Day, powerful BBC documentary The Last Musician of Auschwitz tells the remarkable story of 99-year-old cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

Mon Jan 27 2025 - 12:19

President Higgins ‘rightly’ referenced Gaza war in Holocaust speech, says Simon Harris

Several protesters walked out of President Michael D Higgins’s speech marking Holocaust Memorial Day

Mon Jan 27 2025 - 10:21

Holocaust survivor: ‘I saw normal people in Auschwitz and I saw sadists there who killed people’

As Europe faces a new wave of extreme nationalism, one of the last survivors of Auschwitz looks back

Sun Jan 26 2025 - 07:00

A weekend in Krakow, where history hums below the city’s surface

As Poland’s second city, beautiful Krakow emerged from the second World War relatively unscathed in architectural terms, but not in matters of life and death

Mon Jun 24 2024 - 05:00