Chaos at Auschwitz: Anti-Israel Protesters Disrupt Holocaust Remembrance Event
Anti-Israel demonstrators caused uproar at Auschwitz during a solemn event commemorating Holocaust victims.
Anti-Israel demonstrators caused uproar at Auschwitz during a solemn event commemorating Holocaust victims.
With fresh memories of the horrific past and with numerous looming threats, many Israelis believe that another Holocaust could happen.
Itzchak Belfer shares his memories from the orphanage in pre-World War II Warsaw, where Dr. Yanusz Korczak treated children with dignity and dedication.
Seventy-eight years ago, a group of Jews took up arms in Warsaw and engaged in a month long battle against the most powerful army in the world.
The average age of Holocaust survivors is currently 87, the oldest of whom is a 111-year-old native of Tunis, the youngest 78, born about 10 months after the end of World War II.
Yad Vashem: 'By sharing their stories, we are ensuring that they will never be forgotten.'
The Palestinians idolize the Nazis, sympathize with them and ensure that the next generation is raised on these repugnant notions.
Documents 'prove beyond doubt' that the Allies knew about Hitler's extermination camps in the early years of World War II, two years before assumed until now.
The AMCHA organization was started 30 years ago by Holocaust survivors and health care professionals to address a “conspiracy of silence” and provide survivors with the support they need.
Sohlberg was one of six Holocaust survivors honored with lighting a memorial torch during Israel’s main Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony.
The Torah tells us to remember what our enemies have tried to do to us. The more we remember, the more we will be ready to defend ourselves from future onslaughts.
During the Holocaust, Noah Van Ouwerkerk's family saved Jews from the Nazis. Today, Noah is a soldier in the IDF.
Is it beautiful to see Jews on the streets of Krakow again, where so many died? Or is it just a giant cemetery?
An inventive father-daughter team are using the magic of Instagram to share with the world a teenage Holocaust victim's gripping testimony.
A Canadian journalist reported about the Nazi extermination of Jews already on May 12, 1943, warning that if no action is taken, six million will be murdered.
A photo was taken of a girl holding an Israeli flag outside of the entrance to Auschwitz. Facebook flagged it as "insensitive" but has since apologized.
A child survivor of the Holocaust explains his profound belief that God had been with him throughout his internment at the infamous Auschwitz death camp.
We may have disagreed yesterday, we may disagree tomorrow, but TODAY let's put our differences aside and become ONE in our support of Israel and our soldiers.
Religious IDF soldiers took a break from assembling food packages for needy families to pay tribute to survivors of the Shoah on Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Pay tribute to those murdered in the Holocaust by lighting a virtual candle in their honor.
Hebrew University researchers find significantly higher rates of mortality due to heart disease and cancer among Holocaust survivors. Courtesy Israel Government Press Office The damaging effects of life under Nazi rule have long been known, with many victims having experienced periods of protracted emotional and physical torture, malnutrition and mass exposure to disease. But recent... Read more »
As we mark yet another year that has passed since the liberation of the camps, the question is often asked: If the murdered could have one request fulfilled, what would it be?
Where was God during the Holocaust? No human being can answer that question, but there are a number of interpretations.
As we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials, we must ask some disturbing questions about those who were never tried for their complicity.
Holocaust survivors sing the Israeli national anthem, knowing they would be arrested for trying to enter British-mandated Palestine and the future Jewish state.
Holocaust survivors speak of their deep love for Israel and why they believe it is so important for the Jewish people to have their own country.
Today, unlike during the Shoah, Jews can not only hope, but also depend on the Jewish state to come to their rescue.
Growing up, every day was Holocaust Remembrance day for the daughter of two survivors. Now she beams with pride, living in Israel as her family continues to grow.
With the global coronavirus pandemic threatening populations around the world, Israelis found innovative ways to honor its aging population of survivors on the country’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. By Associated Press Some Holocaust survivors say the current coronavirus isolation and sense of danger has triggered difficult memories linked with their wartime experiences. Others bristle at... Read more »
'We must remember each person as an individual who had a family, a profession and a community, to focus on the way they lived full lives, not just how they perished,' said the founder of the initiative.
'With face-to-face encounters put on hold for now, it is even more important to listen to Holocaust survivors sitting alone in their homes,' said isaac Herzog.
Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah in Hebrew) is a national day of commemoration in Israel. This year, due to coronavirus, mass events will be virtual.
This video features several Holocaust survivors who tell their stories and describe the unspeakable ordeals that they experienced.
Six hundred survivors gathered together to sing 'Chai,' made famous by legendary Israeli artist Ofra Haza, ahead of Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day.
'May the memories of Petr Ginz, astronaut Ilan Ramon and the six million victims of the Holocaust always remain in our thoughts,' said US Astronaut Andrew Feustel in Space.
Israel came to a standstill when a commemorative siren marked the nation's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The 14.5 million Jews living throughout the world today are still two million less the world’s Jewish population prior to Holocaust.
'In the Holocaust we were helpless, defenseless and voiceless,' Netanyahu said. 'Today, we have a strong country, a strong army, and our voice is heard among the nations.'
Each year, Israelis pause from their routines to ponder the fate of the six millions Jews who perished in the Holocaust, vowing to never again allow such an atrocity to occur.
An annual Yom Hashoah event held in Martyr's Forest, will this year pay tribute to Rabbi Moshe Shimon Pessach, a rabbinic and communal leader in Greece whose efforts saved the Jewish community of Volos.
Yad Vashem seeks to preserve the memory and names of the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust and the many European Jewish communities that were destroyed.
A descendant of Holocaust survivors is determined to restore the tombstones of generations of Jews.
Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, stressed the significance of personal remembrance and survivor testimony at the annual Yom Hashoah ceremony.
The lesson to be learned from the Holocaust and the Allies' indifference to the plight of Europe's Jewish victims is that Israel can rely only on itself for survival.
'We must stamp out prejudice and anti-Semitism' and take seriously the threats from a regime threatening Israel's destruction, Trump said.
This painting was done to bring awareness to the rise of anti-Semitism worldwide and to defend the only Jewish state. I put my heart and soul into this project.
Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, addressing the 2016 March of the Living, urged Jewish youth not to forsake their heritage. Now Jews can come home to Israel, he said.
Each year on Yom Hashoah, traffic comes to a halt and Israelis stop whatever they're doing to remember the Holocaust and the Six Million.
Israel marked Yom Hashoah, its annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, on Thursday in memory of the six million Jews murdered by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II.
Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust museum has kicked off its annual remembrance ceremonies with a special screening of the Oscar-winning film "Son of Saul," acknowledging the unique role movies play in maintaining the memory of the Holocaust.
Thousands of European Jews survived the Holocaust thanks to the Albanian people - Righteous Among the Nations - who sheltered and protected them from the Nazis.
Events in nine states will honor Holocaust Remembrance Day with readings of plays that deal with that darkest time in recent history.
The world is ignoring the looming threats of evil and tyranny and the hard-learned lessons of the Holocaust, Netanyahu warned on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Every year, thousands of Jews, young and old, gather at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp site in Poland to commemorate the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis.
Standing proudly with their heads bowed, the IDF soldiers bare the memory of the Holocaust and vow: "Never Again!"
Israel was and is the only possible answer to the 2,000-year persecution of the Jewish people.
The National Library of Israel plans to digitize a collection of documents that belonged to the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever, who experienced the horrors of the Holocaust in the Vilna Ghetto.
Would you be willing to put your own children at risk to save a Jew? Not so simple. On an individual level it is very difficult to answer this question.
I call on the leaders of the world powers to insist on a full dismantling of Iran’s capability to manufacture nuclear weapons, and to persist until this goal is achieved.
Yom Hashoah was established in Israel in 1953 by David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, as a day to commemorate the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust.
The Nazis prepared the ground with restrictive legislation, stripping Jews of human dignity while educating the population that Jews were subhuman creatures.
Up until the Holocaust, Greece had a thriving Jewish community dating back to the time of the expulsion from ancient Israel. Salonika was known as the Jerusalem of the Balkans and had a Jewish majority in Ottoman times. During Ottoman rule, the Jews of Greece thrived and coexisted peacefully with their neighbors for the most part. Under Ottoman control, Jews would experience a golden age that rivaled Muslim Spain. The Greek Jewish community consisted of two groups, the Sephardic Jews who were heirs of the Golden Age of Muslim Spain and Romaniot Jews, who were Hellenized and lived in the area for over 2,000 years. However, this rich and ancient Jewish community dating back to antiquity was wiped out during the Holocaust.
The Albanian Muslims truly live by the Quranic principle, which is also cited in the Talmud, “If one saved a life, it would be as if he saved all humanity.”