Auschwitz concentration camp

A 95-year-old German woman notorious for denying the Holocaust has been sentenced to one year and four months in prison by a court in Hamburg, according to a report by DPA. Ursula Haverbeck was found guilty of incitement stemming from statements she made during the 2015 trial of former Nazi SS member Oskar Gröning, who served at Auschwitz.

In the leadup to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) underlined the responsibility to pass on the memory of the Holocaust "so that the darkness of oblivion does not prevail over the light of memory and hope."

A commemorative ceremony for the almost 3,000 Roma who perished in the Auschwitz concentration camp on Aug. 2, 1944, during World War II has been held in the northwest province of Edirne along the banks of the Meriç River.

The program started with a minute of silence for the Roma who lost their lives by being gassed to death at the camp.

Vaso Stamatiou, one of the last Greek survivors of Auschwitz, has died at the age of 98. She had spent her last years in the Ecclesiastical Nursing Home of Stylida, Central Greece.

The photo caused outrage and toured the world. Some wrote that this kind of behavior was unacceptable, others that it was scandalous, and the majority condemned this type of photography in a place where so many people died.

Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, commemorated on Sunday the 80th anniversary of the departure of the first train convoy for the Auschwitz camp.

They were lucky to even survive the brutal train ride, with 80 people crowded into a single wagon with only a small window and bucket of water. But any luck ended at the ramp in Auschwitz. Questions of life and death were decided in an instant: upon arrival, she was separated from her mother and sister, who - as she learnt later - were murdered in the gas chambers right next door to her.

Eighty years after the first trains departed Greece on their way to the Nazi death camps in Germany and Poland, the last Holocaust survivor of Trikala's Jewish community recounts the horrors of World War II.

The Hellenic Parliament honored the memory of the victims of the Holocaust ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday evening by displaying the slogan "We remember" on its facade with a photograph of prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp. January 27 marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day on Friday, the Goethe Institute (goethe.de) will be holding a special remembrance event comprising two screenings. The tribute starts at 6 p.m. with Christian Petzold's 2014 drama "Phoenix," about a woman who returns to her traitorous husband after surviving Auschwitz only to be exploited again, followed at 7.45 p.m.