In 1985, President Ronald Reagan's visit to Bitburg, a German military cemetery containing graves of Waffen-SS members, sparked controversy as Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and others urged him to reconsider honoring SS soldiers.

Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak (Ies) Vorst, the founder of Chabad-Lubavitch in the Netherlands, passed away at the age of 85.

Rare video footage of Jewish Holocaust survivors being liberated from a train leaving Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 has been found in the U.S. National Archives.

Hannah Goslar recounts her friendship with Anne Frank, which began in 1934 in Amsterdam.

Helen Bamber, a Jewish human rights activist, passed away at 89 after a lifelong commitment to aiding victims of torture and violence.

The Anne Frank Center USA, in collaboration with the U.N. Holocaust Program, has initiated a Twitter campaign in which students visiting the center are encouraged to reflect on what they would say to Anne Frank if they could communicate with her in 140 characters or less.