Holocaust child survivors
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.
Global Holocaust survivor population drops to about 196,000 worldwide, half in Israel, data shows
When centenarian survivors die, their lucid wartime memories go with them
The last witnesses: Holocaust survivors confront rising antisemitism
Voices from the Past
Yad Vashem Council Chairman Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau reflects on his experiences as an ever-present at the March of the Living and why the Shoah will never be forgotten.
Polish government revisiting restitution draft legislation
Initiative is too limited, says the World Jewish Restitution Organization.
Sam Bloch, a leader of the Holocaust survivor community, dies at 94
Longtime community activist was one of the principal organizers of historic survivor gatherings in Jerusalem, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York.
What do Holocaust survivors think of ‘Polish death camps’?
Whitewashing history “can be done more easily when our generation is not here, so it’s very important that we have to fight it.”
Report: Only 26,200 Holocaust survivors will be living in Israel by 2035
The report found that at the end of 2016 there were some 186,500 Holocaust survivors living in Israel.
Healing our survivors
A special program at Sheba Medical Center is dedicated to meeting the unique emotional and physical needs of Holocaust survivors for each moment they are at the facility.
Dutch Holocaust survivor ordered to pay taxes on forced labor pension
While the king “gets a tax-free royal salary, this 86-year-old woman needs to pay taxes for her so-called ghetto commendation.”
Dream comes true for Holocaust survivors
“God gives but does not ask in return. He gives with a generous hand. This is a dream and I am afraid to wake up."
A light in the dark: Singing Hanukka songs through the Holocaust
Hanukka was celebrated and observed throughout the war, in the ghettos and even in the camps, people hoping beyond hope that the suffering would end and believing that they would be free once again.
US Holocaust survivor’s help sparks criminal charges against Nazi guard
An American holocaust survivor identified ex-guard Johann Rehbogen as a teenage SS officer who taunted her and other female prisoners as they undressed each morning.
