'We make a promise here in Sharaka that we will combat anti-Semitism, raise awareness, and tell them the Holocaust was real,' said a co-founder of Sharaka UAE.
Although not widely known, the horrors of the Holocaust reached Jews in Arab countries in northern African Jews, who were also persecuted and murdered.
A global social media campaign to raise awareness about the Holocaust spread rapidly, reaching some 650 million people from 155 countries, or 1 out every 11 people in the world.
The speaker of the Israeli parliament "looks forward to the day when heads of parliaments from Arab countries will no longer avoid me and we will be able to cooperate."
Holocaust survivor Haim Roet addressed the UN General Assembly last week and bemoaned the fact that genocide is still being committed in the world today.
Hassan Rouhani – whose state visit to France coincided with International Holocaust Remembrance Day – received the invitation from the American Jewish Committee’s office in Paris.
Speaking on the occasion of the UN-designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Martin Schulz, who was born in Germany after World War II, said, “To our shame, some have not yet learned the lessons of the past.”
Jews are again being targeted for being Jews, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. He denounced the failure of others to fight rising anti-Semitism, asking, "Where is Europe? Where is the rest of civilization?"
In a video recording marking the commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Prime Minister Netanyahu slammed the UN and Europe for once again turning a blind eye to anti-Semitism.
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel revealed a recently discovered historical tidbit that sheds further light on the former Nazi's efforts to escape responsibility for his heinous crimes.
US President Barack Obama will address an event at the Israeli embassy marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day and join those present in remembering the victims of the Holocaust and honoring those who worked to save them.
President Obama skipped an event in Poland on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, in favor of visiting the royal family in Saudi Arabia.