Tag: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israeli gymnastics coach reflects on Kyiv win
As the international day commemorating the memory of the victims of the Holocaust approaches on Jan. 27, Ira Vigdorchik, the head coach of the Israeli rhythmic gymnastics team, will be honored at the first-ever...
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Erdan warns UN of Iran threats
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan addressed the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday, warning member states that it was time for “an institution charged with safeguarding peace and security to begin addressing...
UN Secretary-General: World alliance needed to combat anti-Semitism
On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said that “coordinated global action” was needed to combat the increase of neo-Nazism and white supremacy the world has seen since the...
‘Restoring My Lost Childhood’: Exhibit spotlights how children’s homes revived the youngest Holocaust survivors
It’s been 75 years, but Yaakov Guterman can still recall nearly everything about the nine months he lived in Zakopane, Poland.
He remembers that all of a sudden in this group home for children who’d...
A new Holocaust memorial in Suriname
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, marked 75 years since the Russian Army liberated the notorious Auschwitz Death Camp in Poland. There were only about 20,000 people left alive in Auschwitz to be liberated....
WhatsApp founder, YouTube CEO to host Holocaust remembrance events
Silicon Valley executives will host Holocaust remembrance events throughout next week in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorated annually on Jan. 27.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, WhatsApp founder Jan Koum and Houzz founder Adi...
Prime minister of Holland apologizes for nation’s role in wartime persecution of Jews
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Sunday became the first Dutch leader to officially apologize for his country’s role in the Holocaust.
Speaking at an event in Amsterdam to mark the 75th anniversary of the...
Rivlin addresses more than 40 world leaders ahead of World Holocaust Forum
Ahead of the Fifth World Holocaust Forum and the 75th commemoration of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin addressed more than 40 world leaders at an official dinner at...
British royal family members attend multiple Holocaust-remembrance ceremonies
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend a commemorative ceremony on Monday held in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the city of Westminster, the U.K.’s Jewish Chronicle reported.
Prince William will give a reading,...
Amid surging anti-Semitism, 75th commemoration of Auschwitz liberation comes at crucial time
“To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” ― Elie Wiesel, “Night”
Seventy-five: It’s the average lifespan of an American male...