Vandals painted Nazi swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans at a memorial in the former Krakow-Plaszow concentration camp in Poland, the PAP news agency reported Saturday. The desecration came on the eve of a march commemorating the liquidation of Jews from Krakow's Jewish quarter during World War II. The police have launched an investigation, PAP said.

The Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam will for the first time display all of her writings when it begins celebrating next month its 50th anniversary, the museum said Friday. On April 28 the Netherland's Queen Beatrix will open a new diary room in the Anne Frank House, where all three of her diaries plus other writings will for the first time go on permanent public display at the museum.

The United States Thursday denounced "new forms" of anti-Semitism and criticism of Israel, saying it had led to a rise of anti-Jewish sentiment around the world in 2009.

A Stockholm court Thursday allowed the extradition to Poland of Swedish former neo-Nazi leader Anders Hoegstroem to face trial for the theft of a sign from the one-time Auschwitz death camp, a prosecutor said.

Lithuania aims by July to settle the vexed issue of compensation for Jewish communal property seized by the Nazis in World War II and kept by the Soviets, Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said Wednesday. "I hope during the spring session, which started today, we will be able to have an agreement in parliament on that law," Kubilius told AFP, noting that lawmakers will be in sitting until July.

Jewish group the Wiesenthal Centre demanded Monday that Britain's Liberal Democratic party expel a senior lawmaker after she called for a probe into claims Israeli solders trafficked organs in Haiti. Jenny Tonge was sacked from the opposition party's front bench team at the weekend over her remarks, with Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg describing them as "wrong, distasteful and provocative.

A former Swedish neo-Nazi leader accused over the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the former Auschwitz death camp in Poland will be kept in custody until an extradition hearing, his lawyer said Friday after a court appearance. "The court found that he should stay in custody further on. The prosecutor said he must be in custody because there is a risk that he tries to leave the country," Bjoern Sandin said.

A former Swedish neo-Nazi leader arrested over the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the former Auschwitz death camp denies the charges against him, his lawyer said Friday. "His opinion is rather that he contributed to solving the issue. He has helped both Swedish and Polish police and Interpol with the investigation," Bjoern Sandin told the TT news agency.

Former Swedish neo-Nazi leader Anders Hoegstroem was arrested in Stockholm Thursday in connection with the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the former Auschwitz death camp, the case's prosecutor told AFP.

A group of survivors and descendants of victims of the Holocaust are suing the Hungarian state railroad company in US court for its role in transporting Jews to the Auschwitz death camp. The class action suit was filed Tuesday in a US district court in Chicago by attorneys representing the group of 95 plaintiffs.