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Holocaust Remembrance Day: Honoring victims and celebrating Jewish resilience

On Yom Hashoah, objects, letters, and fragments of lives cut short remind us that the Holocaust was not only about death, but about vibrant life.

Remembering the Holocaust: A call to preserve Jewish memory
Two people stand at a plaque at the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial near Weimar, Germany, Jan. 26, 2018.

Pro-Palestinian activists are banned from Buchenwald, where survivors vowed to fight for peace

A visitor stands in front of a watchtower behind a fence on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar

Pro-Palestinian rally at Buchenwald memorial shut down by German authorities

A portrait of Friedrich Torberg, Jan. 1, 1970.

A lost novel from 1943 that predicted the Holocaust has been recovered


We must keep the memory of the Holocaust alive - opinion

Memory must overcome the ravages of time. We must see photographs of the Holocaust period and read the accounts of those who lived through it.

 A STAR OF DAVID placed at the center of the gate of a memorial that the survivors of Bavarian Jewry established in the Dachau concentration camp, just a few miles from Munich.

Eighty years on, Thessaloniki Holocaust survivor recalls cart of trampled bodies

Eighty-four-year-old Rina Revah from Thessaloniki is one of only 1,950 returned alive.

A man walks past a graffiti dedicated to the Holocaust in the northern port city of Thessaloniki

BDS group shares concentration camp photo, claims it’s a massacre of Palestinians

A BDS-affiliated organization tweeted that "the Palestinian Academy for Science & Technology calls on EMBO to relocate workshops from Israel, including the one at the site of the Tantura massacre."

 Corpses in the courtyard of Nordhausen concentration camp.

Russia is building concentration camps, Polish PM claims

The Polish prime minister is the latest of many to accuse Russia of using concentration camps.

The barracks at Stutthof concentration camp after liberation.

New portrait collection showcases 90 Holocaust survivors who lived full lives

Van Sise is far from the first photographer to capture the faces of survivors in the decades following the end of the Second World War.

 An aerial view of Yad Vashem

Holocaust survivor, among last prisoners of Auschwitz, passes away

Mordechai Papirblat was a prisoner who worked in hard labor for a period of about 900 days until he managed to escape from a death march at the end of January 1945.

 THE GATE to Auschwitz, photographed in January 2021, 76 years after the camp’s liberation: There are still countless Jews who say about the Shoah, ‘If this could happen, how can anyone still believe in God?’

What can the Uyghurs learn from Israel?

WORLD AFFAIRS: President of the Uyghur American Association visits Israel and has some interesting observations to share

 Kuzzat Allay visits the Western Wall this week.

The Secretary of Evil: 97-year-old Nazi convicted for role in 10,500 murders

In what may be the last-ever Nazi trial, Irmgard Furchner has been found guilty for crimes committed at Stutthof Concentration Camp.

Irmgard Furchner, a 97-year-old former secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, is pictured at the beginning of her trial in a courtroom, in Itzehoe, Germany, October 19, 2021.

97-year-old Nazi secretary on trial speaks out for first time

Irmgard Furchner, who played a crucial role in the death of over 11,000 people, has sat in silence since her trial began in October 2021.

 Irmgard Furchner, a 96-year-old former secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, arrives in a wheelchair as her lawyers Niklas Weber and Wolf Molkentin look on at the beginning of her trial in a courtroom, in Itzehoe, Germany, October 19, 2021.

Holocaust survivor Hanna Pick-Goslar passes away at 93

Goslar and Anne Frank were best friends before the Holocaust separated them.

HANNAH PICK remembers with a sad smile when Anne Frank saw her on their first day at kindergarten in Amsterdam. ‘She turned around and ran into my arms’