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Yad Vashem, academics, institutions, condemn Poland attack on Holocaust historian

Dispute reflects the governing Law and Justice party’s ongoing push for a patriotic narrative of the past that scholars such as Engelking say erases Polish crimes against Jews during the war

Dinah Spritzer/JTA | 04.30.23

'God didn't hear us': Holocaust survivor shares story with her granddaughter

Elizabeth Deutsch survived the Holocaust and Auschwitz, and moved to America where she felt it was possible to live safely as a Jew, now she sits with her granddaughter to share her story

Shmuel Munitz‎ | 04.29.23

Holocaust survivor does not forget: 'Even in Brooklyn they called me a dirty Jew'

David Zajac was just 11 when he first arrived in the U.S. and hoped to forget about the horrors of war, but then reality hit; His granddaughter Rachel defines herself as a proud Zionist, even in a climate where Zionism is a source of harassment

Shmuel Munitz | 04.23.23

Threads of tradition: Unraveling the history of Ionnina's Romaniote Jews

For 2,000 years and until the Holocaust, descendants of Jews who left Israel or were taken into slavery after the destruction of the second Temple lived in Ioannina, now only a few dozen remain to daven in their distinct style and preserve their memory

Dr. Yoel Rappel | 04.22.23

The light in their eyes: Volunteers keep Holocaust survivors company to alleviate loneliness

Gett Chesed's volunteers visit lonely Holocaust survivors across Israel every week, serving them hot meals and taking them out to cafes and restaurants to bring joy to their lives; 'Those weekly meetings are by far the most joyful moment of the whole week,' says one survivor

Itamar Eichner | 04.20.23

Herzog says Warsaw Ghetto Uprising showed valor in face of evil

Speaking to a crowd consisting of Holocaust survivors and families of victims, Herzog says those who rose up to resist the Nazis knew that although they would be facing certain death, the Jewish spirit would live on

Iris Lifshitz Klieger | 04.19.23

Liberation of Dachau concentration camp near Germany

Memory of the Holocaust should be marked in Berlin, not Poland

Opinion: Locales of genocide have become more important to Israelis and Jews around the world than the identity of the murderers and Berlin transformed into a coveted tourism destination; Israeli youth should march there with flags

Avner Hadas | 04.18.23

זיהוי גופות קורבנות האקציה בבאחמוט אוקראינה שואה השואה מלחמת העולם השנייה

Who remembers Bakhmut's 'Babi Yar'?

Opinion: While all Israelis are aware of the Nazi atrocities that took place in Germany and Poland, too few remember the horrors the Jews experienced on Soviet soil

Simon Schechter | 04.18.23

Forty Holocaust survivors lead March of the Living in Poland along train tracks from Auschwitz

March resumes after three-year pandemic-induced hiatus and is lead not by world leaders but rather by survivors of Nazi atrocities, many of whom are in their 90s

Iris Lifshitz Klieger/Poland | 04.18.23

Victim of the Nazis buried in Israel to finally be visited by family

After the Nazis murdered his son, Mordechai Rabahon carried his ashes across continents, oceans and internment camps to being him to eternal rest in Israel; after his story was all but forgotten, it is now being told again

Gilad Cohen | 04.18.23

Raoul Wallenberg's right hand: the woman who helped save Jews from Nazi clutches

Witnessing the mass murder of her Jewish brethren by Hungarian fascists, Agnes Adachi teamed up with the famed Swedish diplomat in his quest to save thousands of Jews

Ynet | 04.18.23

The woman who joined the French resistance to battle Nazi oppression

Having seen her father brutalized by the Nazis, Erika Gold and her family were deported to concentrations camps in 1940, which she said ultimately saved her life

Ynet | 04.18.23

The woman who survived Nazi camps and became a world-famous author

After Nazis invaded Hungary, Edith Eger's family was forced first into a ghetto and then transported to Auschwitz where her parents perished; She and her sister survived the Holocaust to tell the story of Hungarian Jews

Ynet | 04.18.23

Hidden diary reveals heartbreaking realities of Holocaust in Libyan concentration camps

After the death of his father, Shimon Dadush found his old diary which remains the only testament to the pain and suffering the Nazis inflicted on Jews in Libya as well as a harrowing tale of survival

Merav Batito | 04.18.23

The fearless Jewish fighter who sought revenge against the Nazis

During the Holocaust, Shalom Cholawski commanded the armed uprising in Nyasvizh, continued fighting the Nazis in the forests, and even carried out a campaign of personal revenge – leaving behind a legacy of bravery in the face of adversity

Eliezer Hayoun | 04.18.23

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