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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

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

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