Holocaust child survivors

Holocaust survivor rescued by Chief Rabbi Herzog reunites with his grandson, President Herzog

David Danieli survived the Holocaust, was rescued by Rabbi Isaac Herzog’s committee, and later immigrated to Israel. Eighty years after the rescue train departed Poland, he met Herzog’s grandson.

David Danieli with President Herzog
Helen Hesse (left) and her sister, Eva, on the streets of New York, circa mid-1940s.

Holocaust survivor, 92, makes aliyah to Israel nine decades after Kindertransport - interview

Hanoch Shahar, 90-year-old Holocaust survivor presents items from the Holocaust in the northern Israeli city of Safed, April 23, 2025; illustrative.

Global Holocaust survivor population drops to about 196,000 worldwide, half in Israel, data shows

Tova Ringer (center), a Holocaust survivor who passed away in September 2025 aged 102, won Israel’s annual Miss Holocaust Survivor beauty pageant in 2018 at age 93.

When centenarian survivors die, their lucid wartime memories go with them


Poverty should not be a must for Holocaust survivors

Meet just a few of the survivors whose lives have been changed by the Aviv for Holocaust Survivors Organization.

Aviv for Holocaust Survivors

THIS year in Jerusalem

Members of the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel mark the holiday of Sigd in Jerusalem November 20, 2014

Looking into a Holocaust survivor’s soul

Leah Cik Roth is the subject of a stirring account of her Holocaust experiences, called 'My Eyes Looking Back at Me.'

Leah Cik Roth (right), the subject of a stirring account of her Holocaust experiences, co-authored with fellow Miami dweller Menucha Meinstein

Historian Yaffa Eliach’s archives donated to Yad Vashem

The papers were meticulously organized and arrived from New York in 500 boxes weighing around a ton in total.

STUDENTS FROM Germany visit the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem

Jewish groups slam UK for backtracking on child refugee pledge

The Holocaust survivor who introduced the amendment calls the UK government's decision "a disgrace."

Syrian refugee children pose as they play near their families' residence at Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, January 30, 2016.

The growing needs of Holocaust survivors in the US

This year, the organization announced an inaugural Elie Wiesel Memorial Award in honor of the late Nobel Peace Prize laureate, human rights activist and Holocaust survivor.

SARAH MIZRACHI (left) ran in the New York Marathon in November to raise money for The Blue Card and help people like Auschwitz survivor Irene Hizme. They are pictured with Masha Pearl, the NGO’s executive director.

Report: By 2035, only 43,700 Holocaust survivors will be left in Israel

At the end of 2015, some 202,600 Holocaust survivors were living in Israel.

Netanyahu meets holocaust survivors, members of the "Yad Ezer Lachaver"

Speaking out in every generation: Why I sent my son to Auschwitz

Now, the last of the survivors are dying. We, the ones who have heard the horrors directly from the ones who lived them, must continue to send our children to bear witness.

The writer’s son looks out of Birkenau towards the train tracks, where his grandfather had been a prisoner

Amid winter weather, NGO rallies to provide food, heating to needy Shoah survivors

The association has now called on the public to assist so that it can expand its assistance to as many in need as possible.

An elderly Holocaust survivor enjoys a warm meal thanks to the Association for Immediate Help for Holocaust Survivors

Second-generation Holocaust survivors discover living relatives

Yad Vashem reunites descendants of Polish survivors.

Rywka Borenstein Patchnik and Fania Band Blakay walking arm-in-arm in Yad Vashem's Hall of Names