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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks the country's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 17, 2023. Photo by Erik Marmor/Flash90.

‘You chose life. You believed in good. You helped others,’ Netanyahu tells survivors

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A Hungarian Jew, whose whole family was killed in the Holocaust, was sent to various concentration camps. At Mauthausen in Austria, an SS officer would wake him and other prisoners up every day. “‘You...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog speaks during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks the country's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 17, 2023. Photo by Erik Marmor/Flash90.

Herzog urges Israelis to set disputes aside in ‘sacred days’ honoring survivors

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“I appeal to you, citizens of Israel, with a simple prayer: Let us leave these sacred days, which begin tonight and end on Independence Day, above all dispute,” said Israeli President Isaac Herzog. “Let...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Israel on Jan. 30, 2023. Credit: David Azagury/U.S. Embassy in Israel.

White House, State Department release statements ahead of Yom Hashoah

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Both U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken released statements this week marking days of remembrance of Holocaust victims. “During Yom Hashoah and throughout these days of remembrance, we mourn the 6...
Israelis wave flags at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on the eve of Jerusalem Day, May 9, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Nearly half of the world’s Jews live in Israel

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At the start of 2022, there were a total of 15.3 million Jews in the world, 7 million of whom, roughly 46% of all Jews worldwide, resided in Israel, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics...
A survivor participates in the annual Holocaust Remembrance ceremony at the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv, April 7, 2021. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Nearly 150,000 Shoah survivors live in Israel

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The number of Holocaust survivors living in Israel stands at nearly 150,000, according to statistics published on Sunday by the Holocaust Survivors’ Rights Authority ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The 147,199 Holocaust survivors residing in the...

Defying the Holocaust didn’t just mean uprising and revolt: Remembering Jews’ everyday resistance

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Richard Glazar insisted that no one survived the Holocaust without help. To this Prague-born Jewish survivor, who endured Nazi imprisonment at Treblinka and Theresienstadt, plus years in hiding, it was impossible to persevere without others’...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at a Yom Hashoah ceremony on April 27, 2022. Credit: GPO.

Bennett on Yom Hashoah: ‘We cannot allow gene of factionalism dismantle Israel’

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The modern-day State of Israel must not allow “the dangerous gene of factionalism” to dismantle it from within, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Wednesday. Speaking during a Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day...
Selection of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland during the final phase of the Holocaust in May/June 1944. Credit: Yad Vashem via Wikimedia Commons.

‘Yom Hashoah: A Day to Remember’ online program to feature survivor’s ordeals

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The Touro College Hans Goldschmidt Institute for Human Rights and the Holocaust will mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 28 with an online program called “Yom Hashoah 2022: A Day to Remember” from noon to 1:30...
Warsaw Ghetto Square at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 21, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

The here and now of Holocaust remembrance

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It is of tragic relevance that anti-Jewish Arab riots, rocket fire and hate-filled solidarity protests around the world have upstaged the lead-up to Yom Hashoah, which begins on Wednesday evening. Normally at this time, Israel’s preparations for Holocaust Remembrance Day...
Memorial candle. Credit: Pixabay.

Holocaust survivors to pass torch of remembrance to next generation

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Holocaust survivors from five continents will share their experiences during and after World War II and the Shoah as part of a 10-hour online conversation hosted by the Combat Antisemitism Movement, Zikaron BaSalon affiliated with the...