Tag: Yad Vashem
Johan van Hulst: Dutch teacher who saved 600 Jewish children and babies from Nazis...
Johan van Hulst was a Dutch Christian who, up until World War II, had already committed to helping children with his life — as a teacher, school director, university professor, and author. But when...
Yom Hashoah ceremonies to be observed online-only due to coronavirus crisis
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...
Online database with 26 million documents on Nazi victims, survivors now online
The world’s most comprehensive archive on the victims and survivors of Nazi persecution reached a “milestone” on Tuesday by publishing 26 million documents to its online database, including new information on forced laborers and deported Jews.
The...
Last German honored as ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ by Yad Vashem dies
Gertrud Steinl, the last living German honored by Yad Vashem—the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem—for saving Jews during the years of World War II and the Holocaust, died on March 22 on the eve of...
Chabad on Campus emissaries train at Yad Vashem to be Holocaust educators
Some 30 campus Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries concluded an eight-day training program at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, learning cutting-edge, relevant and effective tools that will allow them to teach about the Holocaust and the growing problem...
A Polish-Russian row over commemoration of the Holocaust
A profound and bitter battle between Israel and Poland has been brought to crisis point by the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, which is being commemorated by world leaders this week at...
Leaders from World War II’s Allied powers address World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem
Several top world leaders addressed the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Thursday in an event that commemorates 75 years since the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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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...
Russia’s displeasure with Israel simmers as Putin readies to visit for Yad Vashem event
Russian President Vladimir Putin will leave his controlled environment in Moscow to enter a media firestorm when he alights from his plane in Israel this Thursday as he arrives for the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at...
Poland and Israel’s loss of diplomatic wisdom
This Thursday is supposed to mark another diplomatic triumph for Israeli diplomacy. On Jan. 23, the Fifth World Holocaust Forum will convene at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and...