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Lighting the torch: The survivors at the heart of Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony

HOLOCAUST AFFAIRS: This year, eight survivors will take part in key roles in the state ceremony on Monday evening at 8 p.m.

THIS YEAR’S eight survivors carry within them an enormous sweep of Jewish history: ghettos, pits, forests, camps, cattle cars, shootings, hiding places, and then, after all that, lives rebuilt in Israel. Here, President Isaac Herzog stands beside the memorial torch at Yad Vashem.
(L-R): MEIR HIRSCHFELD, 1936. IDIT PAPA, 1942

Letters of love and survival: A Holocaust love story preserved at Yad Vashem

‘SHOAH’ BY Claude Lanzmann.

Streaming services unveil Holocaust Memorial Day 2026 programming

PEOPLE ATTEND a vigil organised by the Campaign Against Antisemitism and Chabad UK to honour victims of the Bondi attack in Sydney and mark the second night of Hanukkah, in London, Britain, December 15, 2025.

Grapevine, April 10, 2026: Toxic antisemitism


Gaza plan likened to Nazi camps, sparks condemnation and political storm

A political firestorm was triggered on Wednesday by likening Israel’s proposal for the displaced Gazans to Nazi‐era concentration camps.

 Displaced Palestinians fill water at a tent camp, in Gaza City, May 20, 2025.

Faculty are source of US campus antisemitism, Yad Vashem head says

"The presidents of institutions in the United States are not behaving like leaders, and therefore nothing will change," said Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan.

 Columbia student demonstrators show support as others chain themselves to the gates of St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University to denounce the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil in New York City, US, April 2, 2025.

Survive, in Order to Create: Exhibiton launched in Ma'ale Adumim art museum

“The Destroyed World” hall presents the destroyed Jewish life. Apart from the killing of millions of people, the Holocaust involved the destruction of of a whole world of Jewish spirit and identity.

 ‘In Memory of the Victims of the Rumbula Forest Massacre’ by Haim Aronstam, 1973.

Latvia reopens criminal investigation into 'Butcher of Riga' following condemnation

According to Yad Vashem, Cukurs held a “senior, operative position in the Arajs Kommando, the unit that from June 1941 until March 1942 carried out mass killings of Jews and other civilians."

 Herberts Cukurs, the 'Butcher of Riga,' pictured in 1965.

What preserves the memory of the Holocaust among Jews is hope, and looking to the future

The point was made by several speakers that there cannot be memory without knowledge, and that lack of knowledge leads to difficulties in countering Holocaust denial and distortion.

 Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on May 2, 2024, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Grapevine, May 14, 2025: All in the family

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 VAN JONES (center), a CNN political commentator, attends a conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, in 2022

Yad Vashem’s Dani Dayan: University heads now taking ‘different tone’ on antisemitism

He said the situation on campuses was 'unlike anything I had ever seen in those institutions - the calls for Israel's elimination were explicit.'

 Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan speaking at The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference on June 5, 2023.

'We are not at the mercy of others': Yad Vashem head says Holocaust, Oct. 7 are not the same

The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Tamar Uriel-Beeri and Eve Young.

 Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Zvika Klein (L) alongside Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan.

Zikaron Basalon transforms the stories of Holocaust survivors into living memory - opinion

The intimate gathering, the conversation, the questions – all of these create a memory that is not just a ceremony, but a human experience connecting past, present, and future.

 President Isaac Herzog hosts Ines Nissim, a Holocaust survivor, as part of the Zikaron Basalon series, April 25, 2022.

Revealing Yad Vashem’s Touching Memory Theater

“I would talk to Bear all the time, share my feelings with him and cry to him. He was my only connection to my family.” – Fred Lessing

 A SCENE FROM the Touching Theater monodrama ‘Bear and the Toy Underground.’