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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


Remembering the rabbi of Buchenwald

The date was April 11, 1945, and what Rabbi Schacter was about to experience would change his life forever.

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

Remembering Jasenovac: the lesser recognized concentration camp

While the numbers are not as high as Auschwitz or Treblinka, Jasenovac was notorious for its cruelty and the high number of young children who were victims.

Birkenau concentration camp in Poland in the snow

Nazi death camp Buchenwald marks 75 years since liberation amid coronavirus

In the wake of the coronavirus lock down, authorities in the state of Thuringia cancelled commemoration events marking the the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald death camp.

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

Brazilian TV anchor: COVID-19 patients should be in 'concentration camps'

The polemic drew media attention and the anchor’s name became a top trending topic on Twitter.

TRAVELLERS, WEARING masks as a precautionary measure to avoid contracting coronavirus, are seen at Guarulhos International Airport in Guarulhos, Sao Paulo state, Brazil.

US court orders deportation of ex-guard at German concentration camp

Berger admitted to serving at the camp, and acknowledged that he never asked to be transferred.

Former hammer-workshop of the German concentration camp Neuengamme.

Polish President Andrzej Duda visits Auschwitz with Holocaust survivors

The group laid a wreath in front of the wall to display solidarity with the more than one million prisoners murdered at the Nazi "death factory."

Poland's President Andrzej Duda and Zofia Optulowicz, daughter of Polish cavalry captain and World War II resistance leader Witold Pilecki, arrive to attend a wreath-laying ceremony at the "death wall" at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, January 27, 2020.

Photos surface showing convicted Nazi war criminal at Sobibor camp

It reportedly is the first time that Demjanuk has been identified in photos of Sobibor.

A rusty road sign is seen outside the perimeter of a Nazi death camp in Sobibor September 18, 2014. An archaeological dig, which has been carried out since 2007, has recently revealed the location of gas chambers under a road at the Sobibor death camp, the Yad Vashem International Institute for Holo

Toxic hedonism

Signs at a 7 Eleven gas station in Salem, Oregon

Mass grave found at Nazi forced-labor camp Treblinka I

Experts are determining the number and size of the burial pits in the location, near the more well-known Treblinka II death camp, before exhuming and attempting to identify the bodies.

The train station in Macedonia from where Jews were deported to Treblinka

Leaked Chinese gov't documents show details of Muslim camps

The documents show that the Chinese leadership's fears were heightened by terrorist attacks in other countries and the U.S. drawdown of troops from Afghanistan.

An ethnic Uighur demonstrator wears a mask as she attends a protest against China in front of the Chinese Consulate in Istanbul