Holocaust child survivors

Global Holocaust survivor population drops to about 196,000 worldwide, half in Israel, data shows

New data shows the global number of Holocaust survivors has fallen to about 196,000, with nearly half living in Israel and most having survived as children.

JANUARY 20, 2026|ByJAMES GENN

Hanoch Shahar, 90-year-old Holocaust survivor presents items from the Holocaust in the northern Israeli city of Safed, April 23, 2025; illustrative.

Tova Ringer (center), a Holocaust survivor who passed away in September 2025 aged 102, won Israel’s annual Miss Holocaust Survivor beauty pageant in 2018 at age 93.

When centenarian survivors die, their lucid wartime memories go with them

Centenarian Holocaust survivors carry memories forged in adolescence; their passing marks the fading of a rare, irreplaceable perspectiv

DECEMBER 30, 2025|ByRACHEL FINK

As survivors of the Holocaust begin to dwindle, two survivors confront rising antisemitism.

The last witnesses: Holocaust survivors confront rising antisemitism

They survived the Holocaust and spent decades warning the world. Now, from Jerusalem and Sydney, two women watch antisemitism return

DECEMBER 30, 2025|ByCHANI KAPLAN

Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann is photographed in his home on December 9, 2024 in New York.

NYC principal turns down Holocaust survivor’s talk over his ‘messages around Israel and Palestine’

The principal of the Brooklyn middle school MS 447, Arin Rusch, said that she believed that hosting survivor Sami Steigman’s presentation was not “right” for the school.

DECEMBER 4, 2025|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA

Looking into a Holocaust survivor’s soul

Leah Cik Roth is the subject of a stirring account of her Holocaust experiences, called 'My Eyes Looking Back at Me.'

MARCH 4, 2017ByBARRY DAVIS

Leah Cik Roth (right), the subject of a stirring account of her Holocaust experiences, co-authored with fellow Miami dweller Menucha Meinstein

Historian Yaffa Eliach’s archives donated to Yad Vashem

The papers were meticulously organized and arrived from New York in 500 boxes weighing around a ton in total.

FEBRUARY 20, 2017ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

STUDENTS FROM Germany visit the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem

Jewish groups slam UK for backtracking on child refugee pledge

The Holocaust survivor who introduced the amendment calls the UK government's decision "a disgrace."

FEBRUARY 9, 2017ByJPOST.COM STAFF

Syrian refugee children pose as they play near their families' residence at Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, January 30, 2016.

The growing needs of Holocaust survivors in the US

This year, the organization announced an inaugural Elie Wiesel Memorial Award in honor of the late Nobel Peace Prize laureate, human rights activist and Holocaust survivor.

JANUARY 27, 2017ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI

SARAH MIZRACHI (left) ran in the New York Marathon in November to raise money for The Blue Card and help people like Auschwitz survivor Irene Hizme. They are pictured with Masha Pearl, the NGO’s executive director.

Report: By 2035, only 43,700 Holocaust survivors will be left in Israel

At the end of 2015, some 202,600 Holocaust survivors were living in Israel.

JANUARY 25, 2017ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI

Netanyahu meets holocaust survivors, members of the "Yad Ezer Lachaver"

Speaking out in every generation: Why I sent my son to Auschwitz

Now, the last of the survivors are dying. We, the ones who have heard the horrors directly from the ones who lived them, must continue to send our children to bear witness.

JANUARY 7, 2017BySHOSHANNA KEATS-JASKOLL