In Jerusalem, prolific writer says her Jewish grandmother fled persecution in Germany to upstate New York in the late 19th century and kept secret of her ancestry until her death

16th-century building in Pidhaitsi collapses due to heavy rains; contractors tear down 100-year-old structure near Krakow after conservationists fail to register it as monument

Thousands or activists march to US embassy in Warsaw, in one of the largest anti-Jewish street demonstrations in recent times

Israeli politician says Poles 'cooperated in creating and running extermination camps'; memorial site says comment 'hurts like a clash with Holocaust denial'

Protesters in Russellville carry anti-Semitic signs, including one calling Shoah a hoax, in demonstration ostensibly aimed against ADL

Unnamed Jewish groups said to take sample of hair for genetic testing

Project earns praise for using social media to bring story of a young girl killed by Nazis to new audiences, but some accuse makers of trivializing tragedy

Japan’s consul in Lithuania gave life-saving transit visas to 700 Mir Yeshiva students and more than 2,000 additional Jews against the orders of his superiors

'Counterfactual' historian Gavriel Rosenfeld's new book takes on old-new fears of the Reich's revival in our time

Despite widespread ignorance about the Holocaust in Austria, one public school launches a project to find the 50 Jewish pupils it expelled in 1938 under Nazi policies