A memorial event marking 70 years since the murder of the Jews in Ukraine, including the massacres at Babi Yar and adjacent areas, will be held at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Thursday.
Top Ukrainian and Israeli officials paid tribute Monday to tens of thousands of Jews shot by the Nazis in Kiev 70 years ago in one of the Holocaust's deadliest massacres.
Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the BND, deliberately misled authorities hunting for Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, the weekly Der Spiegel said in a report published Saturday.
A recent event marked the 70 year anniversary since the day that Nazi occupiers and Romanian collaborators began to engage in the mass murder of Jews in the Nikolaev region. In this region, more than 200,000 Jews from Nikolaev, Odessa and Moldova were murdered.
Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the BND, said that it shredded in the 1990s files relating to Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, confirming a report on Spiegel's online edition.
Hungarian prosecutors formally announced Tuesday they would appeal against the ''not guilty'' verdict against a 97-year-old Hungarian accused of Nazi war crimes in 1942.
The diaries of feared Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, the so-called ''Angel of Death'' who carried out gruesome medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz, will be auctioned in the United States.
