Tag: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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,...
Spreading the survivors’ stories
My friends at the nonprofit organization “Zikaron B’Salon” are always grappling with the question, “What will happen when we wake up to the headline informing us that the last Holocaust survivor has just died?”
That...
Yad Vashem chair urges Christian world to keep Holocaust Remembrance Day
In his first appearance before an exclusively Christian audience as the new chairman of Yad Vashem, Dani Dayan this week urged the Christian world to turn International Holocaust Remembrance Day every Jan. 27 into...
The Holocaust Remembrance Day rule that proves everyone loves dead Jews
It was a great day for Israeli diplomacy. For the first time, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution sponsored by the Jewish state and it received nearly universal support. Adopted on Jan. 20—the 80th anniversary...
‘Anti-Semitism is toxic to democracies’: B’nai B’rith Holocaust event draws world leaders to hear...
The annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day is set for Thursday—a day the world acknowledges the massive attempt by Nazi Germany to exterminate European Jewry in the middle of the 20th century. But, as the...
New virtual-reality Holocaust experience keeps survivors ‘alive,’ builds empathy
Jordan Gelfeld has connections. As a docent at the Illinois Holocaust, his grandfather, Mark Gelfeld, was able to get this grandson in for a sneak peek at the museum’s new virtual-reality exhibit. And the...
Jewish Agency, WZO launch Holocaust-remembrance social-media campaign
The Jewish Agency for Israel announced on Tuesday the launch, together with the World Zionist Organization, of a social-media campaign to memorialize the victims of the Shoah.
The “Forever in Their Name” campaign, which will...