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After 60 years of being hidden away from the public, Nazi records about the 17.5 million people - Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, mental patients, handicapped and other undesirables – they will be open to the public.

Name of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and date '1229' found on 800-year-old Jaffa wall long thought by archaeologists to be artifact of relatively recent Ottoman period.

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.

The famous 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls are now available for viewing online in high-resolution, thanks to Google and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

The site of a 16th century Aron Kodesh of The Great Synagogue of Vilnius was uncovered. Lithuania's Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius visited with Rabbi Sholom Ber Krinsky.

Exceptional detective-archaeological work at the first season of archaeological digs at Tel Shikmona has uncovered the remains of a house dating back to the period of the Kingdom of Israel.

A 2,000 year-old ossuary, discovered in Israel in 2008 and belonging to the daughter of the High Priest Caiaphas, is said to be authentic by the Israel Antiquities Authority Unit.

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

Events will be held at London's Liverpool Street Station during the period 21 May - 21 June to commemorate the kinderstransport operation in 1939, which involved the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.