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The light in their eyes: Volunteers keep Holocaust survivors company to alleviate loneliness

Gett Chesed's volunteers visit lonely Holocaust survivors across Israel every week, serving them hot meals and taking them out to cafes and restaurants to bring joy to their lives; 'Those weekly meetings are by far the most joyful moment of the whole week,' says one survivor

Itamar Eichner | 04.20.23

Herzog says Warsaw Ghetto Uprising showed valor in face of evil

Speaking to a crowd consisting of Holocaust survivors and families of victims, Herzog says those who rose up to resist the Nazis knew that although they would be facing certain death, the Jewish spirit would live on

Iris Lifshitz Klieger | 04.19.23

Liberation of Dachau concentration camp near Germany

Memory of the Holocaust should be marked in Berlin, not Poland

Opinion: Locales of genocide have become more important to Israelis and Jews around the world than the identity of the murderers and Berlin transformed into a coveted tourism destination; Israeli youth should march there with flags

Avner Hadas | 04.18.23

זיהוי גופות קורבנות האקציה בבאחמוט אוקראינה שואה השואה מלחמת העולם השנייה

Who remembers Bakhmut's 'Babi Yar'?

Opinion: While all Israelis are aware of the Nazi atrocities that took place in Germany and Poland, too few remember the horrors the Jews experienced on Soviet soil

Simon Schechter | 04.18.23

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

Victim of the Nazis buried in Israel to finally be visited by family

After the Nazis murdered his son, Mordechai Rabahon carried his ashes across continents, oceans and internment camps to being him to eternal rest in Israel; after his story was all but forgotten, it is now being told again

Gilad Cohen | 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

The woman who survived Nazi camps and became a world-famous author

After Nazis invaded Hungary, Edith Eger's family was forced first into a ghetto and then transported to Auschwitz where her parents perished; She and her sister survived the Holocaust to tell the story of Hungarian Jews

Ynet | 04.18.23

Hidden diary reveals heartbreaking realities of Holocaust in Libyan concentration camps

After the death of his father, Shimon Dadush found his old diary which remains the only testament to the pain and suffering the Nazis inflicted on Jews in Libya as well as a harrowing tale of survival

Merav Batito | 04.18.23

The fearless Jewish fighter who sought revenge against the Nazis

During the Holocaust, Shalom Cholawski commanded the armed uprising in Nyasvizh, continued fighting the Nazis in the forests, and even carried out a campaign of personal revenge – leaving behind a legacy of bravery in the face of adversity

Eliezer Hayoun | 04.18.23

Swastika etched on body: Israeli-American children face growing antisemitism in schools

'A girl I know was called a 'Holocaust bitch,' and another boy said to me that he would 'finish what Hitler started,' says 14-year-old Ido; NGO says receives at least four complaints every week from Jewish parents or students as 75% of Israeli-Americans encounter hate in schools

Itamar Eichner | 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

Israel commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day

Events begin at Yad Vashem's Warsaw Ghetto square; The son of Iran's deposed Shah will attend along with President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while the the solemn words of Holocaust survivors will be shared

Itamar Eichner, Iris Lifshitz Klieger | 04.17.23

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