As Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked on Jan. 27, a town in southwestern Germany unflinchingly confronts its past and reaches out to Jews.

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - It is getting harder and harder to hear about the Holocaust from people who lived through it. In Gulfport Sunday night, there was a rare opportunity to hear about Nazi-occupied Poland from a Jewish woman.

A historian of the Holocaust and curator of the Auschwitz exhibition, now in Toronto, invites all who gather on Jan. 27 to also consider the date’s political origins.

Remembering the atrocities at Auschwitz is vital, but we can’t lose sight of the fact that Auschwitz is only one part of the story of the Holocaust, writes.

Oct. 7 is also a central theme at reception in Poland's Krakow marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

“Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round,” a documentary co-hosted by the festival and the Spokane NAACP, tells of the first organized interracial civil rights protest when the largely Jewish community near Glen Echo Amusement Park in Maryland joined Black students from Howard University in boycotting the segregated park in 1960.

This is the remarkable Anne Frank The Exhibition, opening at the Center for Jewish History in New York City on January 27, coinciding with International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80 th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp where one million Jews were exterminated.

On the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pope Francis also noted that many Christians were killed in Nazi concentration camps.

Aziaha James scored 25 points and Saniya Rivers added 17 on 7-of-11 shooting on Sunday night to help No. 20 North Carolina State beat Virginia Tech 85-57 for the Wolfpack's fifth consecutive win.

A Holocaust survivor has spoken of the horrific ordeal to highlight the importance of remembering where racism can lead as anti-Semitism spikes in Australia.