Tag: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Elon Musk, Ben Shapiro tour Auschwitz-Birkenau site while in Poland
Ahead of a conversation at a European Jewish Association event in Krakow, Poland, billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro took some time on Monday to tour the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Rabbi Menachem Margolin, chairman of the...
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ohio museum is free
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, held annually on Jan. 27, and in response to “the unprecedented rise in Holocaust denial and antisemitism,” the Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati...
AJC survey: Half of Americans don’t know how many Jews died in the Holocaust
Only 53% of Americans over the age of 18 answered correctly that approximately six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, according to an American Jewish Committee public opinion survey released ahead of International...
Renowned Holocaust survivor and educator to be awarded one of Poland’s highest honors
Legendary Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg will be posthumously awarded one of Poland’s highest honors this Friday in New York.
The Polish Consulate of New York will be presenting Mosberg’s family with the Great Cross of...
Holocaust objects to be displayed at German parliament
An exhibition of Holocaust-era items from the collections of Yad Vashem whose stories are intertwined with Jews from Germany will open in the Bundestag next week, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Jerusalem-based...
Jewish, Muslim, Christian leaders hold webinar to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day
A webinar with leaders from the Gulf region, Indonesia, Israel and the United States on Wednesday commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day and highlighted the need to take global action against anti-Semitism.
It was hosted by the...
UN Holocaust program: Not just about memory, but measures against hatred
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Some recited the now-familiar vow, “Never Again.” Some called for the lasting comfort of those who survived. One even called out the United Nations itself for its injustices towards Jews.
Thursday’s annual International...
Ten US states move to recognize Holocaust Remembrance Day, adopt IHRA definition of anti-Semitism
In recent weeks, 10 states have advanced a proclamation or executive orders acknowledging International Holocaust Remembrance Day with each proclamation officially recognizing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism.
The states that have already...
At Mauthausen, Austrian chancellor assures Lapid of fight against Jew-hatred
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer visited the site of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria on Thursday to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Lapid spoke in the presence of Austrian...
Some positive political, cultural trends in battling anti-Semitism in past year, report finds
The Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University presented an inaugural report on “Positive Trends in Fighting Anti-Semitism and Radicalization around the World” to Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Thursday,...