A vast archive of documents linked to the Holocaust said Monday it would preserve 300,000 original prisoner files from the Dachau concentration camp in Germany that are disintegrating.

US President Barack Obama said Monday he would posthumously award former Polish Underground officer Jan Karski with America's highest civilian honor for his role in exposing the Nazi Holocaust.

Holocaust denial featured front and centre during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent interview on German television.

A sapling from the tree mentioned by Anne Frank in her diary has been planted at Jerusalem's Holocaust Museum, known as Yad Vashem.

Former Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, sentenced to five years in a German prison last year in one of the last major trials of its kind, has died at the age of 91, police said Saturday.

Octogenarian Jewish writer Akos Kertesz of Hungary has left for Canada where he is seeking asylum because of a "political campaign" against him, his press service said Sunday.

Latvian President Andris Berzins on Tuesday defended a controversial annual parade that honours troops from the Baltic state who fought the Soviet Union under the banner of Nazi Germany.

Israeli youth comprising a multi-cultural group of Jews and Arab Muslims, Christians and Druze high school students have completed a landmark Holocaust study tour in Poland, organizers said Monday.

Croatian President Ivo Josipovic has apologized to Jewish victims of the Holocaust in his country and called for restitution for Croatian Holocaust survivors.

Iran has broken the "idol" of the Holocaust underpinning the creation of the Israeli state and US hegemony, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday in a speech marking the anniversary of his country's 1979 Islamic revolution.