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19/03/2013 - France

France hands over art stolen by Nazis

French authorities are to hand over seven works of art that were stolen or appropriated by Adolf Hitler's Germany during the World War II. The handover on Tuesday is part of the French ...

22/07/2012 - France

Hollande vows to fight anti-Semitism at Vel d'Hiv round-up commemoration

French President François Hollande vowed to track down and punish anti-Semitism at a ceremony to honour Jews deported under the wartime German occupation.

20/07/2012 - France

Madonna to appear in Paris again as Front National sues over swastika video

Will Madonna risk further legal action in France by showing a video in which a swastika appears on Front National (FN) leader Marine Le Pen’s forehead when she performs in Paris on 26 July ...

15/06/2012 - France - obituary

From French resistance to Holocaust denial - Roger Garaudy dies at 98

Roger Garaudy, the philosopher and Communist resistant who became a holocaust denier and Muslim convert, has died near Paris at the age of 98.

24/05/2012 - France

French SNCF railway to fund Holocaust research at Jerusalem museum

France’s state railway, SNCF, has signed an agreement with the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem to boost research into the deportation of French Jews to death camps during World War ...

04/02/2012 - France

French railways hand over WWII dossiers to holocaust museums

France’s state-run railway, the SNCF, has handed over digital copies of its archives for the World War II period to three Holocaust museums.

27/12/2011 - France - Poland

France to donate six million euros to Auschwitz concentration camp site

France is to donate six million euros to the preservation of the Auschwitz former concentration camp in response to an international appeal for 120 million euros to maintain the site and its ...

Poland reopens Auschwitz investigation
31/10/2011 - World news explained

Poland reopens Auschwitz investigation

Polish authorities have reopened an investigation into crimes committed at Auschwitz and its satellite Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

16/07/2011 - Festival d'Avignon - report

The man who tried to stop the Holocaust

Jan Karski, a Polish diplomat, risked his life to tell the free world about the Holocaust in 1942 - but no one listened.

12/05/2011 - Germany

Israeli Holocaust institute welcomes Demjanjuk verdict

Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Institute welcomed on Thursday, the conviction and sentencing of former Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk by a Munich court.

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