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"Here we are, not 75 years later, but just seven and a half months later - and people are already forgetting that Hamas unleashed this terror," Biden said in his keynote at the official Holocaust memorial ceremony at the U.S. Capitol

  In the solemn halls of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an annual ritual meant to honor the victims of the Holocaust was conspicuously absent this year. The school's traditional Holocaust Day ceremony, typically held at the iconic Powell Library plaza, was abruptly canceled amid escalating tensions and fears of unrest on campus. […]

In the shadow of the October 7 Hamas attack and atrocities in Israel and in Gaza, with the number of living Holocaust survivors ever dwindling, our work as memory-keepers is just beginning

  A new exhibition displaying the personal items of children murdered in the Holocaust opened Sunday at the Supreme Court. The installation, named "Yellow Patch," serves as a heartbreaking memorial to the young lives tragically cut short during the Nazi genocide. The exhibits on display were retained from the Theresienstadt Ghetto in former Czechoslovakia. Established by […]

  Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to identify and record the names of Holocaust victims previously lost in the vast archives of World War II documentation. The renowned memorial and museum houses a staggering 230 million pages of text documents and over 500,000 photographs […]

Organized by the nonprofit Hate Ends Now, the traveling exhibit included a 20 minute immersive presentation alongside a rare collection of original Holocaust artifacts.

  Q: You've served as director of the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem – the world Holocaust remembrance center – for nearly 30 years. You told me before, that the preoccupation with names and the stories of the victims in the Pages of Testimony collection fascinates you. On a deeper level, what does this […]

  A special event honoring the 80th anniversary of the Hungarian Jewish community who perished in the Holocaust was held Friday with the participation of senior officials of KKL-JNF and KKL Hungary. The event, which included a one-minute silence in memory of the victims, was attended by Hungarian Agriculture Minister Istvan Nagy, who was the […]

  Holocaust survivor Ruth Haran from Kibbutz Be'eri can barely sleep at night. Sometimes she has dreams in which she runs, running out of air and with no direction, not knowing from whom she is fleeing or why. Until a week ago, when something changed, and for the first time she dreamt of her firstborn […]

  The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany has launched #CancelHate, a digital initiative in which Holocaust survivors worldwide read antisemitic comments that proliferate widely on social media and respond. Holocaust survivors are participating in the #CancelHate campaign to show hate will NOT win. Survivors who read the vile social media posts that deny […]

U.S. President Joe Biden, who has long cited the Holocaust as core to his worldview, is expected to discuss the U.S.' moral duty to 'combat the rising scourge of antisemitism' during next Tuesday's address on Capitol Hill

  The B'nai B'rith World Center in Jerusalem and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL-JNF) will hold their 22nd annual joint Holocaust commemoration ceremony on Monday, May 6, Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah). The event, taking place at 10 a.m. Israel time at the "Scroll of Fire" Plaza in the B'nai B'rith Martyr's Forest […]

It’s an unusual Holocaust book because it was written soon after the war by an adult journalist and focuses not on death camps but on the slave-labor camps in which he toiled.

  Israel on Sunday condemned Brazil's president for comparing the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of being antisemitic and trivializing the Nazi genocide of European Jews during World War II. The outcry further strained relations between the countries, which have deteriorated since President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva returned to office last year. Lula has portrayed himself […]

In a recent interview with Kommersant newspaper, Halperin harshly criticized Russia's stance towards Hamas since the attack of October 7, and accused Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov of 'downplaying' the Holocaust

Tal Kantor hoped to visit Hollywood to promote her animated short film 'Letter to a Pig' in October, but the Gaza war changed everything – including how people respond to her touching, Oscar-nominated work about a Holocaust survivor and the power of compassion and empathy

1,894 Holocaust survivors, including 554 from communities near the Gaza border, were evacuated from homes when Hamas launched its brutal attacks on Israeli communities

I'm the son of Holocaust survivors, the father of a hostage held in Gaza and an historian. I fear invoking the Holocaust absolves our own Israeli government for its failures that "Black Saturday" – the day everything designed to protect us collapsed

As educators confront the emotional and psychological difficulties of teaching about the experience of Jews during the Holocaust in the aftermath of Oct 7, Israeli education minister says no final decision has been made

A protestor interrupted a Holocaust remembrance event in S.F., a 'vivid example of the rise of antisemitism and hate.' Speakers addressed the need for Holocaust education to combat hate following the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre