The 9,000-square-foot museum occupying eight floors in an octagon-shaped structure will be located at the site of Thessaloniki’s Old Railway Station, where the first Nazi train carrying Jews to Auschwitz departed on March 15, 1943.
Construction of the museum, funded by the German government and Greek municipal authorities as well as private donors, began earlier this year and is expected to take about two years.
Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel said the signing of AB 2867 'is a victory for morality and justice, and will ensure that California continues to stand on the right side of history.'
In this week's Torah portion we read about a census that was taken of the Jewish people. This is the second census in the Book of Numbers, hence the name.
The large and magnificent synagogue of Vilna, built in the 17th century in the Renaissance-Baroque style, was the oldest and most significant building of Lithuanian Jewry.
Itzchak Belfer shares his memories from the orphanage in pre-World War II Warsaw, where Dr. Yanusz Korczak treated children with dignity and dedication.
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.
'Because of the rise in antisemitism around the world today, I wanted to sing ‘Love Will Survive’ ... as a way of remembering the six million souls who were lost less than 80 years ago.'
Carano's dismissal from the hit Disney+ series stemmed from her controversial social media post comparing political divides to Nazi Germany, which Disney deemed as 'grotesquely trivializing the Holocaust.'
' ... We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.'
‘The murder and kidnapping of Jews today is happening against the backdrop of what we describe when we tell the story of the 1.1 million Jews in Auschwitz.’
Yaroslav Hunka, who served in a voluntary unit under command of the Nazis during World War II, was introduced as a war hero and received a standing ovation.
Lie after lie: The PA leader blamed Israel for the suffering of the Palestinian people while completely ignoring the incitement and terrorism against Jews and Israelis.
An article in the American Historical Review questioned the record of Holocaust rescuer Chiune Sugihara and strongly criticized Yad Vashem for honoring him.