Auschwitz

Getting to know Etty Hillesum, the Holocaust diarist starring at the Israel Festival

Hillesum was 27 when she started putting pen to paper, much older than Frank and, hence, her writing relates to a more advanced stage of life and state of consciousness and awareness.

Neta Shpigelman identifies fully with Etty Hillesum, the Holocaust victim heroine of 'The Thinking Heart'
Stockholm pro-Palestine protest uses mock Auschwitz gate with word 'Gaza' on July 11.

Stockholm pro-Palestine protest uses mock Auschwitz gate with word 'Gaza' to criticize Israel

Elie Wiesel at 1990 March of the Living ceremony in Birkenau with Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Chief Rabbi of Israel

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness

Elie Wiesel at the 1990 March of the Living

I was there


Barstool bar fires staff, Temple U student suspended over 'F*** the Jews' sign

The incident occurred at Barstool Sports bar in Philadelphia, which is run by American-Jewish businessman Dave Portnoy.

 David Portnoy, founder of Barstool Sports, speaks during a radio broadcast prior to Super Bowl LIV on January 30, 2020 in Miami Beach, Florida. The San Francisco 49ers will face the Kansas City Chiefs in the 54th playing of the Super Bowl, Sunday February 2nd.

The horrors of the Holocaust still haunt Jews to this day - opinion

Though October 7 will mark our generation like the tattoos marked our ancestors in the Holocaust, I know we will persist because we always have and because we have no choice.

 THE WRITER stands with former hostage Eli Sharabi and his brother Sharon Sharabi on the railroad tracks at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Muslim and Christian Arab leaders join March of the Living

The delegation, led by Sharaka, featured participants from Morocco, Bahrain, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other countries

 Sharaka delegation during March of the Living

Rain and ashes: 2025 March of the Living commemorates Holocaust, hostages

President Isaac Herzog told the gathered dignitaries that “While we are here, the souls of dozens of Jews still thirst for water and freedom.”

 A handwritten sign in Hebrew on the train tracks to Auschwitz on International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025. The sign reads "Waiting for all 59 hostages, now!"

'We're the Jewish spirit of triumph': Freed hostage Eli Sharabi speaks at Auschwitz

"This is the Jewish spirit of triumph," Sharabi said in his speech. "It's a reminder that the Jewish nation will exist for all eternity."

 Freed hostage Eli Sharabi with President Isaac Herzog at the March of the Living on Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 24, 2025.

At Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Jewish Holocaust story is pushed to the margins - opinion

Eighty years after the Holocaust, the memory of Jewish suffering at Auschwitz is increasingly shaped by controlled narratives, highlighting the need to preserve the truth of the atrocity.

 THE WORDS ‘arbeit macht frei’ hang above the gate at Auschwitz.

Holocaust survivors to October 7 hostages: ‘We defeated the enemy’

Holocaust survivors, IDF soldiers held in captivity by Hamas terrorists, visited the Auschwitz museum ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

A visitor to Auschwitz prayers with his talit in the former Nazi death camp build in occupied Poland

Remembering the Holocaust also means standing up to hate - opinion

Yom HaShoah is a sacred day of mourning, memory, and resistance, but it is also a call to remain alert.

THE WRITER’S family in Brussels prior to the Holocaust: Her mother Sonia (L) and aunt Hannie were Hidden Children saved by Madame Anciaux, a Righteous Among the Nations. Their father Saul Birnberg was murdered in Auschwitz; their mother Dora hid under an assumed identity.

Released hostage Agam Berger to deliver violin performance at Auschwitz 

Agam Berger will perform alongside Daniel Weiss, whose parents were murdered on October 7.

 Palestinian Hamas militants release female Israeli soldier Agam Berger held in Gaza since the deadly October 7 2023 attack, as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, January 30, 2025.

Grapevine April 16, 2025: Hailing Huckabee

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 MIKE HUCKABEE (center) visits the City of David in Jerusalem in 2009.