Tag: Holocaust Remembrance Day
400-plus academics, intellectuals sign letter of support for IHRA Definition of Antisemitism
Ahead of this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, which takes place from April 7-8 this year, 400-plus academics and intellectuals from around the world have signed a letter in support of the International Holocaust Remembrance...
Holocaust survivors represent the light that shone in the darkness
To all soldiers, commanders and employees of the Israel Defense Forces: Holocaust Remembrance Day silences Israel and envelopes our country’s streets in quiet.
The day causes us to stop our daily routines and devote some...
Jewish communities in Gulf commemorate Holocaust with Muslims
Jews in the Gulf will commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day this week together with Muslims, through a program hosted by the Association of Gulf Jewish Communities (AGJC), the group announced on Tuesday.
“The event will include...
‘Field of Flags’ memorial at University of Rhode Island honors Holocaust victims
Hillel at the University of Rhode Island has created its annual “Field of Flags” memorial in honor of Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, which begins on Wednesday night.
The exhibit is set up on the Hammershlag...
March of the Living awards Dr. Anthony Fauci ‘Moral Courage in Medicine Award’
To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, which this year begins on the evening of April 7, International March of the Living, together with the Maimonides Institute for Ethics and the Holocaust, the Miller Center at...
Virtual 90th-birthday event honors Marion Wiesel’s support of Ethiopian Jewry
In celebration of Marion Wiesel’s 90th birthday, the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity and Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO) will hold a star-studded virtual event with a performance by Israeli singer, songwriter and musician Idan Raichel on Jan....
Humanity is in this together
I learned about the atrocities of the Holocaust when I was a child directly from those who suffered through it. The memories of my extended family and their close friends helped shape who I...
Neo-Nazis crash Holocaust survivor’s Zoom testimony
Neo-Nazis on Monday crashed an online Holocaust Remembrance Day event hosted by the Israeli embassy in Germany.
The embassy hosted survivor Zvi Herschel, who told his story to the public through the Zoom meeting application,...
Yom Hashoah ceremonies to be observed online-only due to coronavirus crisis
Though Israel’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations usually include large ceremonies and events attended by thousands, the somber occasion will be marked this year exclusively in digital format for the first time ever, due...
Global Jewish population still short of pre-Holocaust figure
Eighty-one years after the Holocaust, the global Jewish population is still short of the 16.6 million estimated to have been alive on the eve of the war in 1939, with Israel’s Central Bureau of...