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World Marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day

The entrance to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp. Photo Credit: Shutterstock International Holocaust Remembrance Day is being observed worldwide, marking the 81st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. In the United Kingdom, King Charles III and Queen Camilla are hosting a reception at Buckingham Palace to honour Holocaust survivors and their families. Among the attendees is 86-year-old Peter Lantos, a former prisoner at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, who shared […]

today27 January, 2026

Opinion Pieces

Australia is still reckoning with a shameful legacy: the resettlement of suspected war criminals after WWII

By Jayne Persian, University of Southern Queensland In the Canadian parliament last year, an outcry erupted after 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian Yaroslav Hunka was presented to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a hero of the second world war. It turned out Hunka had fought against the Allies as a voluntary member of the Nazi German Waffen-SS Galizien division. The incident was deeply embarrassing for Canada; Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was forced to […]

today9 January, 2024