Holocaust Remembrance Day

From Lithuania to Jerusalem, a Holocaust survivor shares his story with diplomats

ISRAEL'S FOREIGN Ministry hosts a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony for foreign diplomats, April 13, 2026.
Haj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, meeting with Adolf Hitler in 1941

PA turns Hitler’s ally into a Palestinian icon - opinion

Karoline Preisler during one of her counter-protests.

German pro-Israel activist, granddaughter of Nazis, warns: 'Antisemitism is threat to democracy'

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials stand at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony.

Netanyahu, officials lay wreaths after siren marking Holocaust Remembrance Day


Pro-Palestinian activists are banned from Buchenwald, where survivors vowed to fight for peace

Kufiyas in Buchenwald argued that their protest would honor the memory of Buchenwald’s victims together with all “victims of genocide and fascism.”

Two people stand at a plaque at the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial near Weimar, Germany, Jan. 26, 2018.

Sylvan Adams addresses pre-Holocaust Remembrance Day gathering in Krakow

“You are not here only to remember how Jews died,” said Adams. “You are here to show how Jews live."

SYLVAN ADAMS addresses Krakow, Poland, before Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2026.

Foreign Ministry holds Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony for Righteous Among the Nations

The ceremony took place by a wall of the Foreign Affairs Ministry on which are the names of foreign diplomats who risked their lives to rescue Jews from the Holocaust.

ISRAEL'S FOREIGN Ministry hosts a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony for foreign diplomats, April 13, 2026.

WATCH: Survivor recounts how he held on to hope, as Knesset Speaker marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

The event took place as part of the Zikaron BaSalon framework, which provides intimate, home-based alternatives to formal Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremonies.

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and Holocaust survivor Yeshayahu Foyer.

WATCH: Israel ushers in Holocaust Remembrance Day under shadow of Iran threat

The day of commemoration is set to begin on Monday night with a prerecorded official state Remembrance Day ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum and memorial site.

Children explore the exhibits at Yad Vashem on April 13, 2026.

Volunteers step in to support aging Holocaust survivors in Tel Aviv, Jaffa - interview

The institute works with about 220 survivors living in the south Tel Aviv and Jaffa area, all of whom are elderly people referred by social services.

Jaffa Institute volunteers are seen supporting aging Holocaust survivors in low-income areas.

Netanyahu meets Holocaust survivors chosen to bear torches at Remembrance Day ceremony

"Every year, my wife and I make it a point to meet with the torchbearers," Netanyahu told the survivors. "It is an extraordinarily moving moment because you are giants of the spirit."

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara meet with Holocaust survivors chosen to light the torches during Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2026.

Holocaust survivor, 92, makes aliyah to Israel nine decades after Kindertransport - interview

Charash was born Helen Hesse in Hamburg, Germany. From April 1933, her father, an attorney, was no longer allowed to practice law.

Helen Hesse (left) and her sister, Eva, on the streets of New York, circa mid-1940s.

Global Jewish population is 15.8 m., almost half live in Israel, CBS reveals

In 1939, on the eve of World War II, the global Jewish population was 16.6 million, of whom 449,000 (3%) lived in Israel.

Women pray at the Western Wall.

Israel reports 1,000 antisemitic incidents worldwide, 20 killed in past year

During the reporting period, over 300 incidents were recorded in the United States, and over 130 incidents each in the United Kingdom and France.

Graffiti was spraypainted on Temple Israel in Minneapolis on Oct. 7, 2025, the two-year anniversary of Hamas' attack in Israel.