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Following outcry, Lithuanian city halts construction of bike path near Holocaust mass grave

Photos of the project in Šiauliai show two trails on either side of a monument to the victims of the genocide.

The cemetery of Ysselsteyn in the Netherlands, where Nazi SS troops are buried alongside Dutch civilians. (Ralf Klinkhammer/Getty Images)

‘No longer kept secret’: New plaques give context to Dutch cemetery where Nazis are buried next to WWII victims

Commemorations have been held at the Ysselsteyn cemetery for years, but local Jews complained that the ceremonies also honored the Nazis buried there.

Police in Poland arrest 3 in connection to antisemitic book burning rally

Reports of the event had sparked outrage in Israel and beyond.

A view of the Pilecki Institute in Warsaw

Jewish historian refuses award from Polish government’s history institute, saying it suppresses Holocaust research

Danny Fenster, Jewish journalist jailed in Myanmar, is released days after being handed prison sentence

South African government urges its own representative to boycott Miss Universe pageant in Israel

Van Gogh painting stolen from Rothschild by Nazis sells for over $35 million, breaking record

How moving to Denmark, a country with few fellow Jews, strengthened my Jewish identity

‘Death to Jews,’ Polish nationalists shout at rally while burning book about Jews in Poland

John Cleese cancels Cambridge University appearance over debate sparked by a Hitler impersonation

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