More by Emil Vojtánek

Prime Minister Iveta Radicova attended the London premiere of Nicky's Family, a documentary that tells the story of 102-year-old Sir Nicholas Winton - a man who rescued hundreds of Czech and Slovak Jewish children from a bleak fate in the run-up to WWII.

Dozens of rabbis from across Europe have gathered in Warsaw for the largest meeting of Jewish religious leaders in Poland since the community was virtually wiped out during World War II.

An Israeli student choir was set to sing Hebrew songs in the former Nazi concentration camp of Dachau - standing on soil that many older Jews regard as forever cursed.

The photographs of Representative Gabrielle Giffords have been released, almost six months after she was gunned down and shot in the head in Tucson in January.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has acquired at a price of 100,000 pounds, Hitler's oldest known written expression of his hatred for Jews.

A decades-long dispute between Russia and an Orthodox Jewish group over ownership of holy texts collected for centuries by influential rabbis and seized by the Soviet Union has threatening cultural loans between the two countries.

A German court convicted John Demjanjuk for his role in the killing of 28,000 Jews in the Sobibor Nazi death camp, then set the 91-year-old free because of his age.

The award, presented at a national tribute dinner May 5, was given to Cruise for his longtime support of the center and its Museum of Tolerance, the organization said.

Marking the 50th anniversary of the trial of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann, videos as well as information and descriptions in Hebrew and English of the landmark trial were put online.



An American museum has agreed to return a 370 year-old painting that was looted by the Nazis during the Second World War.