Yom hashoah

Editor's Notes: What kind of Jewish state are we becoming? Reflecting on Independence Day - comment

As Israel celebrates 78 years, the question remains: What kind of Jewish state are we becoming? A reflection on Zionism, identity, and unity on this Independence Day.

A woman holds an Israeli flag on a balcony near the scene where a missile fired from Iran struck a building in Haifa, northern Israel, as Israeli rescue forces recover bodies from the site, causing extensive damage, April 6, 2026.
The sixth edition of the annual Sharing Memories project for Holocaust remembrance, April 13, 2026

Meta launches sixth annual Sharing Memories Holocaust remembrance project

Leading the Holocaust Museum LA delegation at Auschwitz

Passing the torch: The march that changes everything

Remembering the Holocaust: A call to preserve Jewish memory

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Honoring victims and celebrating Jewish resilience


Cabinet to approve Oct. 7 memorial day during meeting on Sunday

It is proposed that every year on Tishrei 24 there will be a national memorial day to commemorate the events that took place on October 7, including a state ceremony.

 Pictures of Israelis who were murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova festival placed outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 7, 2024

New bill seeks to honor Americans who saved Jews during the Holocaust

Rep. Gottheimer (NJ-5) introduced the legislation with his colleagues Chu (California-28), Cohen (Tennessee-9), Schrier (Washington-8), and Raskin (Maryland-8) in honor of Yom HaShoah.

Rep. Josh Gottheimer speaks at a Maryland infrastructure press conference in April 2021.

Over flight intercom, El Al pilot links Israel's judicial reform to the Holocaust

Pilot Doron Ginzburg referenced Yom Hashoah and said “[t]hings like the Holocaust are potentially to be occurring in a dictatorship, and we are fighting in Israel to remain a democratic country."

 An El Al plane flying above the clouds.

Biden on Holocaust Remembrance Day: 'One of darkest chapters in history'

The president also proclaimed April 16-April 23, 2023 as a week of observance of the Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust.

 US President Joe Biden addresses the White House Tribal Nations Summit at the Interior Department in Washington, US, November 30, 2022.

Secretary Blinken shares family story to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

US Secretary of State Blinken told the story of his stepfather Samuel Pisar, the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. 

 US SECRETARY OF State Antony Blinken and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leave the podium after their joint press conference on Monday, in Jerusalem.

Watch: The 35th March of the Living 2023

Marking 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

35th March of the living 2023

Holocaust doc produced by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, to air on PBS

Hillary and Chelsea Clinton produced a documentary about a Holocaust survivor that will debut on PBS on Tuesday, timed to Yom Hashoah.

FORMER US secretary of state Hillary Clinton speaks about including women in the peace process in Afghanistan, at UN Headquarters in New York in March 2020.

New York’s indifference to the Shoah - opinion

Interestingly, the parades honoring Pétain and Laval each occurred in October 1931. This was about a decade before their crimes of genocide against the Jewish people took place.

 A TICKER TAPE parade takes place in New York City’s ‘Canyon of Heroes’ in lower Manhattan last summer to honor essential workers for their work during the outbreak of COVID-19.

Christians march through Berlin: 'For peace, against antisemitism'

Descendants of Holocaust survivors walked together with the descendants of Nazi perpetrators.

 March of Life 2022

Video: ‘What are we doing about saying never again?’

From the blog of Jerusalem Jane on the eve of Yom HaShoah

 Jane Kiel ("Jerusalem Jane") on Yom HaShoah