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Holocaust Survivors Refuse to Be Silenced. This Year They Will March on the March of the Living Against Antisemitism

Auschwitz, Poland
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Kazbek Kokov, head of the North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria, in Moscow, Russia December 16, 2025.

Putin establishes Soviet genocide memorial day, erasing Jewish victims of Nazis

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Rabbi Menachem Margolin EJA Chairman in a tour of Auschwitz.

'It can happen again,' former UK PM Boris Johnson says at Birkenau

Blood-red hands  graffiti on the Paris Holocaust memorial, May 14, 2024.

French court explores Russian involvement in antisemitic graffiti at Paris Holocaust Memorial


The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra's concert for Holocaust remembrance - review

Rather than actual music from the Holocaust, this Holocaust Memorial Day Concert by the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra related in its seriousness of content and Jewish-Israeli focus.

 CELLIST Kristina Reiko Cooper performed with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra last week.

Yom HaShoah: A time to remember, a time to rise - opinion

On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, we embrace more than ever our responsibility to fulfill the promise and potential that was taken from so many of our Jewish people.

Yom HaShoa: There are only 220,800 Holocaust survivors left in the world according to recent surveys.

Remembering the Holocaust isn’t enough, we must also build - opinion

As he shares lessons of survival from his grandmother, The Jewish Agency’s CEO writes that knowledge about the Holocaust must be more than facts and ceremonies.

 Yehuda Setton

Stolpersteine vandalized in Brussels with Gaza graffiti

Holocaust memorial cobblestones in Brussels were found defaced on Tuesday morning with graffiti mentioning Gaza.

Parts of the Holocaust memorial project "Stolpersteine" (stumbling blocks) are pictured in Berlin, Germany, August 18, 2017.

European Parliament suspends MEP who disrupted Holocaust moment of silence

European Parliament Member Grzegorz Braun was suspended for thirty days from the European Parliament after disrupting the moment of silence "for the next victims of the Jewish genocide in Gaza."

 Grzegorz Braun, member of far-right political alliance Confederation, speaks during a parliament session, after he used a fire extinguisher to put out the Hanukkah menorah candles, at the Parliament in Warsaw, Poland December 12, 2023.

Israel's ambassador to Germany accuses 'Der Spiegel' of abusing Holocaust memory

Prosor referred to an interview, which was published on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, by Der Spiegel with Israeli-American historian Omer Bartov.

The site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau

Survivors cry ‘never again’ at Auschwitz’s 80th liberation anniversary

‘I thought that to be a Jewish child means you have to die,’ Tova Friedman tells world leaders

 Holocaust survivor Leon Weintraub

Herzog invokes Oct. 7, criticizes UN's anti-Zionism in Holocaust remembrance remarks

Herzog accused the UN and the International Criminal Court for "exhibiting moral bankruptcy" and blurring the distinction between good and evil. 

Israeli President Isaac Herzog speaks during a ceremony marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the United Nations headquartes in New York City, January 27,

WATCH: Hostage families attend memorial at Auschwitz

"It's very hard because ... what's happened in 7th October is feeling like another Holocaust or pogrom in the kibbutz Nir Oz."

 Auschwitz

From Auschwitz to TikTok: how Lily Ebert inspired millions - opinion

This year’s Holocaust Memorial Day theme, “For a Better Future,” is a powerful reminder that remembrance alone is not enough.

 Lily Ebert (Left) standing next to her great-grandson Dov Forman (Right)

'Never forget', says UK's Queen Camilla at Holocaust remembrance event

Camilla said it was crucial to remember the Holocaust given anti-Semitism was at its highest level for a generation.

 Britain's Queen Camilla, patron of the Anne Frank Trust, lights a candle during a reception for Holocaust Memorial Day at the Hilton Park Lane in London, Britain, January 23, 2025.