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Swastika etched on body: Israeli-American children face growing antisemitism in schools

'A girl I know was called a 'Holocaust bitch,' and another boy said to me that he would 'finish what Hitler started,' says 14-year-old Ido; NGO says receives at least four complaints every week from Jewish parents or students as 75% of Israeli-Americans encounter hate in schools

Itamar Eichner | 04.18.23

Horrifying monstrosity: the Nazi Skeletons Museum of an 'extinct race'

In his speech at Yad Vashem, President Herzog recounts harrowing story of Nazis dismembering Jewish captives 'to be displayed and cataloged in an orderly fashion' as a macabre symbol for a people they aimed to erase from history

Itamar Eichner | 04.18.23

Dugo Leitner, a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau, holds a balloon shaped like the Jewish star that the Nazis forced Jews to wear

Portraits of Holocaust survivors at German Embassy seek to reclaim their stories

'We need to find new ways to engage the public and especially the younger generation,' German envoy says about exhibition billed as digital storytelling for a digital age

Deborah Danan/JTA | 04.17.23

Israel commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day

Events begin at Yad Vashem's Warsaw Ghetto square; The son of Iran's deposed Shah will attend along with President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while the the solemn words of Holocaust survivors will be shared

Itamar Eichner, Iris Lifshitz Klieger | 04.17.23

Info wars: Israeli AI tool combats online Holocaust denial

ChatGPT-based project can analyze antisemitic posts made by Holocaust deniers on social media and present a qualified answer based only on authoritative and reviewed sources

Oshrit Gan-El | 04.17.23

Holocaust survivor shares her story in Knesset using hologram: 'It's simply amazing'

Deborah Weinstein lost her brother to hunger and her sister to freezing. Her father was injured in combat near Leningrad, while she survived a fire, crossed a river that claimed many lives, and dreamed of immigrating to Israel. Now her story is presented in the Knesset using innovative technology

Sivan Hilaie | 04.16.23

'Youth trips to Poland should not include perversion of history,' minister says

In an agreement reached by Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and finalized during his visit to Warsaw last month, Israel agreed to include at least one from a long list of sites presented by the Polish government including some which may contradict historical facts and pervert the memory of the Holocaust

ynet correspondents | 04.10.23

Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz at the Einsatzgruppen Trial in Nuremberg, which lasted from September 1947 until April 1948

The last surviving prosecutor of Nazis at Nuremberg, dies at 103

At the age of 27, Benjamin Ferencz was named chief prosecutor at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, in which 20 members of the SS’s mobile death squads were convicted of war crimes; in 2022, the U.S. Congress awarded him the Congressional Gold Medal, its highest honor

Andrew Silow-Carroll/JTA | 04.09.23

The hand-written Haggada that survived the Holocaust

Hand-written Haggadah that survived Holocaust to be cherished in Jerusalem

While hiding from Nazis in Holland, Rabbi Avraham Prince hand-wrote the Haggadah from memory for the sake of the preservation of Jewish culture, and concluded with the sentence 'Next year all of Israel is redeemed'; Some 80 years later, the Prince family still uses it every Passover Seder

Gilad Cohen | 04.03.23

Yad Vashem records names of millions of Holocaust victims in new commemoration project

The Book of Names contains details about 4.8 million Jews who perished during World War II and although data is not final, hundreds of thousands of names will likely be lost in time

Itamar Eichner | 03.29.23

The Israeli and Polish foreign ministers,Eli cohen Zbigniew Rau

Israel, Poland resolve years-long disputes, reinstate ambassadors

Eli cohen's visit is the first at his government level since 2018, signaling a thawing in ties after years of tensions caused by disagreement over the memory of the Holocaust and Poland's role in the murder of Jews; signed an agreement that they said would allow for the resumption of Israeli youth trips

Associated Press, Ynet | 03.22.23

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis holds up a 15-week abortion ban law after signing it on April 14, 2022, in Kissimmee, Fla

Holocaust novel by Jodi Picoult removed from Florida schools

With Governor DeSantis all but declaring war on school material deemed too politically correct or historically divisive, it seems that even the memory of the Holocaust is not safe

Andrew Lapin/JTA | 03.15.23

American TikTok star launches new series about the Holocaust

Through her footage of concentration camps and Nazi-era factories, Montana Tucker says she wishes to raise awareness about the genocide of the Jewish people, sounding alarm on perils of xenophobia in general

Ynet | 11.07.22

On eve of international remembrance day, Israel is home to 165,800 Holocaust survivors

New report shows survivors' average age is 85; about 31,000 of them, or 19%, are over 90 and around 950 survivors are over a century old; 42 Holocaust survivors die every day on average

Hadar Gil-Ad | 01.26.22

YouTube reversal bans Holocaust hoaxers, stops pay for borderline creators

Google-owned streaming service says it is taking aim at videos claiming school shootings and other "well-documented violent events" are hoaxes, clips that glorify Nazi ideology or promote supremacy groups

Reuters | 06.06.19

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