Holocaust survivors

One hundred and fifty-nine out of 250 MPs in the Serbian parliament voted on Monday for the establishment of a memorial centre at the Staro Sajmiste (Old Trade Fair) site to remember those killed at the Nazi concentration camp in occupied Belgrade during World War II.

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Efraim Zuroff, director at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, has dismissed the Croatian President's claim of trying to put a 'collective stigma' on the Croatian nation for the crimes of the Fascist Ustasa regime in World War II.

Protesters have disrupted the opening of a retrospective of Roman Polanski's work in Paris following new rape allegations against the French-Polish film director.

Simon Wiesenthal Center's Israel Office Director Efraim Zuroff has announced he would send an official protest to the Croatian government.

It concerns the recent appointment of Zlatko Hasanbegovic as the country's minister of culture.

Efraim Zuroff, one of the best known Nazi hunters, says it is "absurd" to compare the Holocaust and the Rwanda genocide with the crimes committed in Srebrenica.

Jewish teenager Anne Frank died in a Nazi concentration camp at least a month earlier than her official date of death, a new study said on March 31.
      
"New research... has shed fresh light on the last days of Anne Frank and her sister Margot," the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam said on Tuesday, until now her official death date.
      

A crowd of 2,000 people gathered at Freedom Square, Thessaloniki, to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the deportation of 56,000 Greek Sephardic Jews. They solemnly marched from the square to the city's old railway station where the first of 18 trains departed for the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex on March 15, 1943.