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Holocaust Remembrance Day

עצרת הפתיחה הממלכתית ביד ושם ל אירועי יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה ביד ושם

Netanyahu on Holocaust Remembrance Day: 'We will defeat our genocidal enemies'

The life stories of the survivors who lit torches at the national ceremony at Yad Vashem are a special inspiration in the days after the October 7 massacre; empty chair in the front row of the audience was dedicated to the hostages still being held in Gaza

Ynet correspondents | 05.06.24

Most French Jews experience antisemitism, many remove mezuzah from their homes

Disturbing survey conducted in France shows French Jews are subjected to antisemitism due to lack of public knowledge about the Holocaust or because of Israel; Results show that majority of French Muslims hold antisemitic opinions about Jews and 14% of all those polled under age 35 identify with Hamas

Tamar Sebok, Paris | 05.05.24

Eden Golan to skip Eurovision opening gala, participate in Holocaust Remembrance Day event

Israeli delegation chooses to skip important Turquoise Carpet event due to proximity to Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel and will instead hold memorial ceremony with local Jewish community

Raz Shechnik | 05.05.24

עצרת בירושלים לציון חצי שנה שהחטופים והחטופות בשבי ארגון הטרור חמאס

Testimonies of released hostages to be screened on Holocaust Memorial Day

Public Diplomacy Directorate completes part of Israel's project to make public the testimony of dozens of hostages who were held in Gaza; The Government Press Office will hold a special screening for foreign journalists with hours of testimonies of atrocities against women, men, the elderly and children

Itamar Eichner | 05.02.24

Too many Jews live in fear in ferocious surge of antisemitism, Biden says

After president declares May Jewish American Heritage Month WH says he is to deliver keynote address at ceremony commemorating Holocaust; 'Students have the right to feel safe,' Biden says on campus anti-Israel protests

Daniel Edelson, New York, News Agencies | 05.01.24

A second trauma: Holocaust survivors living in Israel amid war

Since the outset of the war in Gaza, Holocaust survivors living in areas close to the borders had to evacuate, and say October 7 made their painful memories resurface

Hadar Gil-Ad, Iris Lifshitz-Kliger | 01.26.24

'The population of survivors in Israel is decreasing year by year'

Holocaust survivors displaced, lost grandchildren: 'Atrocities committed by Hamas revived past traumas'

Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Holocaust Survivors' Rights Authority discloses living conditions of over 137,000 Holocaust survivors currently residing in Israel, many of whom feel less safe since Hamas attack

Hadar Gil-Ad | 01.26.24

המשתתפים בכנס תחת שלט "העבודה משחררת" באושוויץ. "'לעולם לא עוד' זו לא רק סיסמה"

European antisemitism as high as in 1930s, says prominent Jewish leader

Rabbis and Jewish leaders express concerns over a surge in antisemitism ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, drawing parallels to pre-Holocaust times; Yad Vashem chairman questions sincerity of world leaders when visiting Holocaust museum and pledging 'Never Again'

Itamar Eichner | 01.25.24

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

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

Israel stands in silence in the memory of the victims of the Holocaust

A two minute siren blared throughout Israel as people honored the memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Nazi atrocities across Europe; Knesset hold ceremony naming each victim

ynet correspondents | 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

העצרת לפתיחת אירועי יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה ביד ושם

Netanyahu: Our enemies may think we lack determination to stand up to them, they are greatly mistaken

With son of deposed Iranian Shah in attendance, PM says ‘victory of the past alone does not guarantee the victory of the future’ and vows to fight any agreement that would allow Tehran to obtain nuclear weapons

Gilad Cohen, Itamar Eichner, Eitan Glickman | 04.17.23

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