Tag: Yom Hashoa

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...

I learned about the atrocities of the Holocaust when I was a child directly from those who suffered through it. The memories of my extended family and their close friends helped shape who I...

For several decades, the Holocaust shaped the way American Jews thought about their place in the modern world. For the generation that arose in the aftermath of World War II, the Shoah was the...

My grandmother, Reggie Richman, passed away on April 10 at the age of 92 from complications due to the coronavirus (she also had pneumonia). She was a Holocaust survivor, a teacher, a mother, grandmother and...

Each year, Yom Hashoah brings with it memorial gatherings across the world, candle-lighting ceremonies with elderly survivors and speeches by dignitaries. Across Israel, the children and grandchildren of survivors publicly read of the names of...

Jews have long been known as the people of the book, but fresh evidence has emerged that they’re also the people of the letter. Of the millions of Jews who were taken to their deaths...

When my grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, passed away very suddenly in 2008, I went through his office in hope that he had documented his experience—that he had in some capacity written his story down,...

After bearing immense grief, transformed into hope and exhilaration, a group of committed Guilford County Jews returned from the annual March of the Living spiritual-educational journey in Poland and Israel. Representing the Mid-Atlantic Region, Guilford’s...