Tag: Holocaust

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany on May 8—International March of the Living—a book about the era just got an...

Rock legend and KISS frontman Gene Simmons got teary-eyed when reading over historical documents about his late Jewish mother’s experiences in the Holocaust and liberation from the Mauthausen concentration camp during a recent interview with Bild. Simmons’s...

The United Kingdom’s National Holocaust Centre and Museum has launched an online program that allows schoolchildren at home during the coronavirus pandemic to ask questions to Holocaust survivors. Connecting the survivors, many of whom are...

As the siren to commemorate Yom Hashoah sounded throughout Israel on Tuesday morning, 1,600 volunteers in Jerusalem stood outside the homes of Holocaust survivors marking a moment of silence together for Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance...

Mira Rosenblatt will never forget Aug. 12, 1942. On that day, the teenager was among the 30,000 Jews living in the Sosnowiec Ghetto in Poland who were rounded up by the Nazis and herded...

Saudi author and journalist Abdullah Bin Bakheet wrote in the kingdom’s Al-Riyadh daily in January that any true bid for peace with Israel requires transcending politics and acknowledging that the Holocaust was a “tragedy” and an...

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...

While official in-person ceremonies are canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Jewish Agency for Israel will host two virtual Yom Hashoah events, bringing Jews around the world together to hear from Holocaust survivor...

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...

For several decades, the Holocaust shaped the way American Jews thought about their place in the modern world. For the generation that arose in the aftermath of World War II, the Shoah was the...