Symposium at upstate NY school reunites survivors of Nazi death train with American liberators

September 23rd, 2009 Holocaust survivors reunite with US veteransHUDSON FALLS, N.Y. — The Holocaust survivor was 6 on that spring day in 1945 when he last saw the U.S.

September 10th, 2009 German court: Demjanjuk trial not before NovemberMUNICH — A German court expects John Demjanjuk's trial on charges of being an accessory to the murder of thousands at a Nazi death camp to begin in November at the earliest. The court in Munich said in a statement Thursday that it would announce its decision on the trial date at the end of September and make no further statements beforehand.

September 1st, 2009 Train from Prague carries kids who escaped NazisPRAGUE — A vintage train carrying people who escaped the holocaust as children is steaming from Prague to London to mark the 70th anniversary of mass evacuations of children from Czechoslovakia. Sir Nicholas Winton, a Briton, arranged eight trains to carry 669 mostly Jewish children through Germany to Britain at the outbreak of World War II to prevent them from being sent to Nazi concentration camps.

August 27th, 2009 Poland marks 65th Lodz ghetto anniversaryLODZ, Poland — Aged Holocaust survivors commemorated the 65th anniversary of the last deportations from the Lodz ghetto to Nazi death camps on Thursday, and Poland's president recalled their suffering and praised Poles who risked their lives to save Jews. President Lech Kaczynski dedicated a memorial incorporating a Polish eagle into a Star of David to remember Polish Christians who rescued Jewish neighbors during the World War II occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany.

August 27th, 2009 Survivors, officials remember Lodz ghetto inmatesLODZ, Poland — Survivors and state officials are walking in a March of Remembrance in the central city of Lodz to mark 65 years since the deportation of the last Jews from the city's Litzmannstadt Ghetto. Hundreds of people gathered at the Radegast station, which is now a memorial.

August 13th, 2009 German court rules on display of Nazi symbolsBERLIN — A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that people can be prosecuted for displaying Nazi slogans in Germany only if they are in the German language. The Federal Court of Justice overturned a lower court's ruling convicting a neo-Nazi of transporting a shipment of 100 T-shirts with the slogan, "Blood and Honour," written in English.

August 12th, 2009 BUDAPEST - Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom expressed outrage Tuesday over plans by neo-Nazi groups to hold a commemoration marking the death anniversary of Adolf Hitler's former deputy, Rudolf Hess. Solyom "learnt with indignation" of plans by foreign and Hungarian far-right and skinhead groups to convene in Budapest Saturday to mark the anniversary of the death of a "Nazi leader who was sentenced for war crimes", he said in a statement to state news agency MTI.

August 9th, 2009 Pope: Nazi concentration camps a symbol of evilCASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy —Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday that Nazi concentration camps were "extreme symbols of evil" and hell on earth. The German-born pontiff, who was forced to join the Hitler Youth, was remembering two saints who had died at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.

June 17th, 2009 Austria: Man convicted of glorifying Nazi ideasVIENNA — An Austrian court has convicted a man of glorifying Nazi ideology and sentenced him to two years in prison. The court in the southern city of Klagenfurt found the 85-year-old man, who was not identified, guilty Wednesday of "re-engaging" in Nazi-era beliefs.

May 29th, 2009 Spain: official targets alleged Nazi guards in USMADRID — A Spanish prosecutor is seeking international arrest warrants for three alleged former Nazi death camp guards who live in the U.S. Pedro Martinez Torrijos of the National Court says there's evidence they were accessories to genocide.

May 12th, 2009 Demjanjuk arrives at airport; Deportation expectedCLEVELAND — An ambulance believed to be carrying suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk has arrived at a Cleveland airport as federal agents prepare to deport him to Germany. The ambulance left U.S.

May 12th, 2009 Nazi guard suspect Demjanjuk arrives in GermanyMUNICH — Suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk has arrived in Germany where he faces a warrant accusing him of being accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews and others at Sobibor. The retired Ohio autoworker was deported from the United States and arrived Tuesday morning on a private jet at Munich's airport.

May 12th, 2009 Plane carrying Demjanjuk departs Cleveland airportCLEVELAND — An airplane carrying suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk (dem-YAHN'-yuk) has taken off from a Cleveland airport as U.S. officials deport him to Germany.

May 6th, 2009 German court rejects Demjanjuk appealBERLIN — A Berlin court has rejected an attempt by suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk to block his deportation from the United States. Berlin administrative court spokesman Stephan Groscurth says the court ruled Wednesday there was no case for Demjanjuk to make in Germany.

May 1st, 2009 Appeals court denies Demjanjuk stay of deportationCINCINNATI — A federal appeals court in Ohio has denied a stay of deportation to Germany of alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk (dem-YAHN'-yuk). Pending a further appeal, the Friday ruling opens the way for the Justice Department to deport the 89-year-old retired autoworker from his suburban Cleveland home.