A Florida man has been named as the new executive director of a Holocaust center in the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills. ...more

October 17, 2009

Authorities say the man charged with killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will likely survive the injuries he suffered when other museum guards returned fire. ...more

June 14, 2009

Authorities say at least two people have been shot at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. ...more

June 10, 2009

The director of the Florida Holocaust Museum in downtown St. Petersburg says the museum will likely increase security in the wake of a shooting at Washington's Holocaust museum. ...more

June 10, 2009

"We must not be silent" about condemning anti-Semitism, German chancellor Angela Merkel declared Sunday as Germany and Israel commemorated the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-incited riots against Jews. ...more

November 9, 2008

Barack Obama's visit to the Western Wall was a public event. The handwritten prayer he left there was meant to be private. ...more

July 26, 2008

The Barack Obama campaign said Tuesday that the candidate mistakenly referred to the wrong Nazi death camp when relating the story of a great-uncle who helped liberate the camps in World War II. ...more

May 28, 2008

Irena Sendler - credited with saving an estimated 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some in baskets - died Monday in Warsaw. She was 98. ...more

May 13, 2008

Immersed for two days in the intense world of Mideast peacemaking, President Bush looked relieved Friday to see something of the landscape all the fighting is about. ...more

January 12, 2008

Kevin DuBrow, lead singer for the 1980s heavy metal band Quiet Riot that scored a hit with "Cum on Feel the Noize," was found dead in a Las Vegas home. He was 52. ...more

November 27, 2007