A free symposium at the museum Feb. 15 will look at African American engagment in World War II and its place in social progress.

The United Nations has announced new actions to counter the surge in antisemitism, including encouraging governments to enforce laws against hate crimes and discrimination.

On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops entered the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, where 1,100,000 men, women, and children died, including 990,000 Jews. For today's world, Auschwitz stands as a symbol of the atrocities of World War II. The United Nations has declared January 27 as the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. RFI was there and sent this report.

The United Nations announced new actions Friday to counter the surge in antisemi-tism, including encouraging governments to enforce laws against hate crimes and discrimination.

OSWIECIM, Poland — Auschwitz survivors warned Monday of the rising antisemitism and hatred which they are witnessing in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation.

With China, Russia, and Islamists scratching at the door, peace costs money. America is upgrading its needed nuclear arsenal, but the cost is huge. Over one trillion dollars is the price America will pay for peace. It’s very simple, very real. Without upgrades, the US military can’t defend anyone against more advanced adversarial weapons.

JERUSALEM — Israel and Hamas were set to carry out their third hostage-prisoner exchange on Thursday, with three Israelis and five Thai captives slated for release as part of a ceasefire deal aimed at ending the Gaza war.

Kathrin Meyer, departing cretary-general of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, said she considers Holocaust distortion particularly dangerous, especially as the number of survivors

Iman Helles, a displaced mother sheltering in a facility run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza, fears that she will now be “thrown out to the streets” with her three children.

Israel has formally banned the main United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees from operating on its territory despite heavy diplomatic backlash.

Legislation that goes into effect on Thursday bars UNRWA from operating in the country. That will affect aid delivery to Gaza and beyond.

Bill Deere, director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA), discussed with ABC News on Wednesday relief efforts in Gaza and