Holocaust Memorial Museum

Holocaust Memorial Museum board looks to oust Bernie Sanders after years of absence - report

According to records the New York Post claims to have been supplied, Sanders has not attended a single one of the biannual meetings since he was appointed to the position 18 years ago.

 US SENATOR Bernie Sanders speaks at a May Day rally in Philadelphia earlier this month. In a Senate committee meeting, Sanders said: ‘We can agree that antisemitism is unacceptable in all forms, but some of us happen to believe that the response of the Netanyahu government to the Hamas attack is al
A 173-foot tower crain hoists a 20th century 12-ton railcar into the upcoming Holocaust Museum Boston.

Boston’s unfinished Holocaust museum hoists boxcar into exhibit space overlooking Boston Common

THE WRITER speaks on the eruption of global antisemitism, addressing an event on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in January 2024.

US Holocaust Memorial Museum chair: What's at stake in this pivotal moment - opinion

 NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani addresses accusations of antisemitism at a press conference Wednesday morning.

Mamdani laments criticism following his ‘globalize the intifada’ comments


750 Jewish and Holocaust scholars sign petition against Yad Vashem head

Eitam's critics say he is unfit to lead because he called for most Palestinians in the West Bank to be expelled and for Arab Israelis to be excluded from the country’s political system.

DR. ARKADAI ZELTSER in the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.

As a Holocaust historian, I’m horrified that a bigot may lead Yad Vashem

The mission of Yad Vashem is to teach values that stem from the lessons I learned from the rescuers: the importance of valuing human rights and respecting everyone.

Effi Eitam in 2002; background Yad Vashem in 2020

National Holocaust Centre receives grant from UK's Culture Recovery Fund

The grant offered by CRF will be used to ensure continued operations amid the coronavirus pandemic.

A STAR of David is seen at the new Holocaust museum called the House of Fates in Budapest, Hungary, last year

75 years ago Holocaust survivors celebrated Sukkot on their own terms

For the first time since their liberation, the survivors of the Shoah sat down together to reflect on their only recently acquired freedom from their nightmarish bondage.

Jewish men gather in a communal sukkah in the Amberg displaced person's camp in Amberg, Germany, October 1947

Sweden allocates $1.1 million to start work on Holocaust museum

Lawmakers are debating whether the museum should be located in the capital, Stockholm, or in Malmö, a city that has seen intense antisemitism in recent years.

The Swedish flag is seen at Gamla Stan, the Old City of Stockholm, Sweden, May 7, 2017.

Window of New Mexico Holocaust Museum smashed by vandals

The head of the museum does not think it is a coincidence.

A STAR of David is seen at the new Holocaust museum called the House of Fates in Budapest, Hungary, last year

Construction of Austrian Holocaust victims' memorial begins

The country now recognizes that Austrians were perpetrators as well as victims of Nazi crimes but it has not confronted that chapter of its history as openly or directly as Germany.

A general view of a session of the parliament in Vienna, Austria, January 10, 2020

Auschwitz memorial and museum will reopen to visitors on July 1

Reservations must be made online.

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B'nai B'rith, JNF, to honor Holocaust-era educator Samuel Bein

The joint effort to recognize Bein is part of a long history collaborative projects between the B'nai B'rith and JNF.

Simon Wiesenthal Path Inaugurated in Martyrs Forest

Yad Vashem Remembrance Day event to be held online due to coronavirus

Next Generation Association, the organization responsible for the online memorial event, will be screening Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 21, in conjunction with Yad Vashem.

DR. ARKADAI ZELTSER in the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.