Greek neo-Nazi leader denies existence of gas chambers
ATHENS (AFP)---The head of the Greek neo-Nazi party elected to parliament during May 6 elections has denied in an interview the existence of gas chambers in Nazi death camps during World War II.

Aladdin Project’s President delivers speech in Ukrainian Parliament
“It is indeed a moving experience for me to address this august assembly in Kiev, in the land where my grandparents and many other relatives perished in 1941, all summarily executed by the Nazi Einsatzgruppen and their indigenous collaborators.” Thus began the speech by Aladdin Project President Anne-Marie Revcolevschi in the Ukrainian Parliament during the closing session of an international conference organized by the Kiev Interfaith Forum and its president, Oleksandr Feldman, MP, on April 25 and 26.

Aladdin Interfaith Committee co-president meets religious leaders in Istanbul
Chief Rabbi Rene-Samuel Sirat, co-president of the Aladdin Project’s Interfaith Committee, met and held talks with a number of senior religious leaders, including the Ecumenical Patriarch His Holiness Bartholomew I, Istanbul Grand Mufti Dr. Rahmi Yaran, Grand Mufti emeritus Professor Mustafa Cagarci and Chief Rabbi of Turkey Isak Haleva, during his visit to Istanbul on April 24 and 25. The former Chief Rabbi of France briefed his eminent interlocutors on the new initiative of the Aladdin Project that aims to familiarize young theologians of Christian, Muslim and Jewish faiths with the religion of the “other.”

Turkish press praises conference for “shedding light on humanity”
Dozens of Turkish newspapers, television and radio stations as well as news websites reported extensively on the international conference that took place in Bahcesehir University on April 19. CNN Turk, mass-circulation dailies Milliyet, Vatan, Aksam and journals Gozlem and Salom were among them.

Turkish, American and Israeli historians take center stage in Istanbul meeting
At the international conference in Istanbul, Turkish, American and Israeli historians took a broader view of Istanbul’s history as a crucible of Jewish-Muslim encounters. Four of the world’s foremost authorities on Ottoman and Turkish history - Princeton University’s Heath Lowry, Topkapi Museum President Ilber Ortayli, Hebrew University’s Jacob Landau and Haifa University’s Minna Rozen – were among the speakers.

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiaboa visits Auschwitz
AFP- Chinese Premier Wen Jiaboa visited Nazi Germany's Auschwitz death camp in Oswiecim, southern Poland, Friday to honour six million Jews killed during the Holocaust.

Serge Klarsfeld publishes “colossal” work on Jews deported from France
AFP- “A colossal work” is how the French daily, Le Monde, described the new edition of Serge Klarsfeld’s “Memorial to Jews Deported from France” – a book that weighs 15 pounds and provides laboriously-researched information on the 75,500 Jews who were deported from France during the war. Only about 2,500 survived. The indefatigable Nazi hunter, lawyer and historian, who chairs the “Association of the Sons and Daughters of Jews Deported from France” with his wife Beate Klarsfeld, is a founding member and vice-president of the Aladdin Project.

The Holocaust is about today and tomorrow
The Jerusalem post- Holocaust Remembrance Day is on Warsaw Ghetto uprising anniversary, when poorly armed Jews held off armored Nazi brigade.