Tag: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Polish MEP mars Holocaust ceremony: ‘Jewish genocide in Gaza’
A solemn ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the plenary sitting of the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday was marred when a far-right Polish lawmaker shouted, "Let’s pray for the victims of...
‘Build a better world one good deed at a time,’ says Holocaust survivor, 81
It was a stroke of luck that the cattle car in which Gabriella Major sat as a small child with her mother and grandmother in 1944 diverted to the Strasshof transit camp near Vienna,...
Netanyahu: ‘Hamas are the new Nazis’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called on the "civilized" world to up its effort to combat Jew-hatred, while labeling the Hamas terror group the "new Nazis."
"On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I call...
A tale of two survivors on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Ceremonies are being held around the world on Monday, Jan. 27, to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date for the annual commemoration was proclaimed by the United Nations in November 2005, marking the...
A day of non-remembrance and a call to reclaim ‘Never Again’
The sentiment “Never Again,” once a solemn vow against repeating the horrors of the Holocaust, has eroded in the face of rising global antisemitism and the ideological tides that now threaten the Jewish people...
Never again would humanity let this happen?
The United Nations established Jan. 27 as Holocaust Remembrance Day to mark the day in 1945 when Auschwitz was liberated. The German Nazis built Auschwitz and thousands of other concentration and death camps to imprison...
Earn the right to say ‘never again’
International Holocaust Remembrance Day has perhaps never been more difficult to observe. It should be a day to contemplate the antisemitism that murdered six million Jews. It should be a moment to reject viewing...
A hollow Holocaust Remembrance Day
It’s an important date on the international community’s calendar. Every year, the United Nations and many other institutions and organizations hold ceremonies on Jan. 27 commemorating the Holocaust. It’s long been clear that much...
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is different this year
As the author of two post-Holocaust novels and a former high school history teacher, my guiding assumption before the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre in Israel was that the Holocaust was a unique event in...
Incorporating innovation to teach a new generation about the Shoah
Sometimes, boredom becomes the mother of inspiration.
Holocaust educator Adi Rabinowitz Bedein was listening to presentations from top scholars in her field at a conference she attended last year. One read the entire paper. Another...