Thirty French Imams have made a historic trip to the Holocaust Memorial at Drancy near Paris in an effort to help forge closer bonds between France’s Jewish and Muslim community.

A plaque hangs on the wall of a well-to-do apartment building in a quiet German street commemorating nearly 30 former residents driven from their homes or murdered by the Nazis.

Aged Holocaust survivors made impassioned pleas to the US Congress Wednesday to allow them to sue France's state-owned SNCF railway over its role in World War II deportations to Nazi death camps.

Hundreds of Holocaust-era mass graves are scattered around Eastern Europe, scholars said Friday, urging authorities to protect them as they owed it to victims of World War II atrocities.

Survivors and descendants of Jews killed during the Iasi pogrom in Romania on Tuesday attended ceremonies  marking the 70th anniversary of one of the worst single Holocaust massacres.

Holocaust survivors lighting some of the torches to represent the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust in the official Israel Yom Hashoah ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, May 01, 2011.

The German parliament has urged the government to raise the pensions paid out to Holocaust survivors from the former Soviet Union living in Germany to redress what it called an enduring injustice.