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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.