Tag: Yom HaShoah
White House, State Department release statements ahead of Yom Hashoah
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...
Nearly half of the world’s Jews live in Israel
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...
Nearly 150,000 Shoah survivors live in Israel
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
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’...
Bennett on Yom Hashoah: ‘We cannot allow gene of factionalism dismantle Israel’
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...
‘Yom Hashoah: A Day to Remember’ online program to feature survivor’s ordeals
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...
The here and now of Holocaust remembrance
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...
Holocaust survivors to pass torch of remembrance to next generation
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...
IDF General Staff visits Yad Vashem for day of Holocaust education
The Israel Defense Forces General Staff held a study day dedicated to commemorating the Holocaust at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Monday. Israel marks Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, over the course of 24 hours starting on the...
Words of hate scrawled on Yom Hashoah on Vancouver Island Chabad House
Law enforcement in Canada has identified a person of interest, one of two, who vandalized the Chabad House on Vancouver Island on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“A suspect has come forward and been identified in relation...