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Thursday, January 9, 2025

WATCH: 2019 #WeRemember Campaign Summary

The 2019 #WeRemember Campaign undoubtedly reached, engaged, and educated more people than any Holocaust commemoration in history. Holocaust survivors will always remember. We will too. #WeRemember https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0rtRiecfy8

A message of hope from Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel dedicated his life advocating for peace, humanity, truth, and helping other survivors emerge stronger after the devastation they experienced during the Holocaust. This is his message of hope. Holocaust survivors will always remember....

Yom Hashoah: We Remember

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In the Jewish tradition, we are commanded to remember (zachor) and not to forget (lo tishkach). This week we commemorate Yom HaShoah, the Day of Holocaust Remembrance. On this solemn occasion, 74 years after...
A photograph of Anna Ventura with her four children that she sent to her husband, Luigi, when he was in Paris in 1940. Credit: Yad Vashem.

Love letters of the Shoah: Messages thrown from cattle cars convey final wishes, prayers,...

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Jews have long been known as the people of the book, but fresh evidence has emerged that they’re also the people of the letter. Of the millions of Jews who were taken to their deaths...
View of Har HaZeitim, Mount of Olives. Credit: International Committee for Har HaZeitim.

Revitalizing the 3,000-year-old Har HaZeitim cemetery in Jerusalem

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Israel’s oldest cemetery, Har HaZeitim—better known as the Mount of Olives—is expected to be rejuvenated in the upcoming years. Overlooking the Temple Mount, the 3,000-year-old reservoir of Jewish history is the resting place for more...
Jewish Cultural Quarter, Amsterdam. Credit: Holland Tourism Ministry.

Exhibition at Dutch National Holocaust museum leaves out Auschwitz pictures

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Holland’s national Holocaust museum excluded four pictures taken at Auschwitz from a current exhibition. The Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam, which consists of the National Holocaust Museum, dismissed criticism that the pictures were censored, saying they...

Pesach during the Holocaust

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The Pesach holiday – which marks the Jewish people’s exodus from enslavement in ancient Egypt – was never more reminiscent in modern times as during the Holocaust. In the Pesach Haggadah, which recounts the miraculous story, Jews...
The main entrance to the ghetto of Vilnius in Lithuania during World War II. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Lithuania Jewish community slams state center for faulty details of Holocaust

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The state-funded Center for the Study of the Genocide and Resistance of Residents of Lithuania has been under fire for publishing last month that “the Lithuanians operated against the will of the Germans” during...
The sherd of the rare oil lamp depicting a menorah. Credit: Anat Rasiuk/Israel Antiquities Authority.

Remains of Jewish settlement dating from Second Temple period found in Beersheva

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The remains of a Jewish settlement of the Second Temple period, including the sherd of a rare oil lamp depicting a menorah with nine branches, have been discovered in Beersheva for the first time,...
The interior of a Holocaust train boxcar used by Nazi Germany to transport Jews and other victims during World War II. Credit: Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.

Holocaust train car arrives in New York for Auschwitz exhibit in New York

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A crane lowered a train car onto tracks on Sunday outside the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York—a boxcar that carried Jews and others to their deaths at Auschwitz and other Nazi death...