April is an interesting month of the year. Christians celebrate the happy and hopeful occasion of Easter most of the time in April. But we also commemorate the Jewish Holocaust in April as today is Holocaust remembrance day. Three days later on April 24th another similar and tragic event will be remembered as well: The Armenian Genocide. A commemoration still crying for justice, recognition and condemnation.

According to a study conducted throughout 2007 and 2008 by Lower Saxony's Criminal Research Institute, one in twenty West German 15-year-old males claim membership in a neo-Nazi faction – a statistically higher proportion than are involved in mainstream political parties. The proportion in formerly-communist East Germany is even higher: one in eight.

The German newspaper Bild published never-before-seen architectural plans of the Auschwitz extermination camp on Saturday that reveal, in their unequivocally marked sections, that everyone involved in the operation of Auschwitz knew full well that it was intended for the systematic extermination of human beings, the paper said.

German police say they are investigating the desecration of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, after a caretaker for the monument discovered 11 Nazi swastikas on seven of the memorial's pillars.

A Hollywood television director is helping elderly Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.

Sixteen Hungarians received Israel's Righteous Among the Nations award for saving Jews during the Holocaust. But as Stefan Bos reports, the ceremony was overshadowed by concerns over renewed anti-Semitism in Hungary and other parts of Europe.

A Brazilian judge has banned a float portraying the Holocaust from taking part in this year's carnival in Rio de Janeiro. The judge also banned the use of Adolf Hitler costumes and swastikas in Sunday's parade.

At former Nazi death camps and many other places worldwide - in Europe, Israel, the United States and the United Nations, among others - people remembered victims of the Holocaust on Sunday.

Sweden took part in the worldwide Holocaust Remembrance Day over the weekend.

Reflecting on the events of the Holocaust, the Prime Minister has said that "Never again" must be made a reality and not just a slogan.

President George W Bush on Wednesday raised the specter of a "nuclear holocaust" in the Middle East if Israel's arch-foe Iran gets atomic weapons, and vowed he would not let that happen.

Many Europeans think that Jews have too much impact upon U.S. policy in the Mideast and global economic and talk too much about Holocaust, the Anti-Defamation League reported on Monday.