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.

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

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

The last witnesses: Holocaust survivors confront rising antisemitism

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’


IFCJ distributes 28 million shekels to Ukrainian immigrants and others in need for the holidays

IFCJ provided monetary support ahead of holiday season — “I know that we couldn’t be here and be able to live and have our children enjoy their new home and lives without this support.”

Jews making aliyah from Ukraine arrive on  International Fellowship of Christians and Jews sponsored flight

Remembering Natalie Hess, a Jerusalem teacher who survived the Holocaust

Natalie Hess, who died recently at the age of 86, was my idol; she molded my life and the lives of countless others. If you were a teacher trained by her, you could do anything.

 NATALIE HESS: Healing aura.

Jewish communities in the US mark the Holocaust Remembrance Day

Memorial events, commemorations, talks with Holocaust survivors and a workshop for the children of survivors will take place in the communities across the US on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

 The New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston.

Ukraine invasion retraumatizes US Holocaust survivors

Ukrainian-born Holocaust survivors living in New York talk about the impact Russia's invasion of Ukraine has had on them

 Brooklyn's Brighton Beach, also known as "Little Odessa"

Schalke fans bring Nazi deportation of local Jews to new light

The project investigates municipal, state and federal archives for the stories of victims who were deported from Gelsenkirchen, the hometown city of the Schalke 04 soccer team.

 FC Schalke 04 Fans

Janet Malcolm, New Yorker writer whose family fled the Nazis, dies at 86

Malcolm was born Jana Klara Wienerova to a wealthy Jewish family in 1934 who escaped their native Prague in 1939, possibly by bribing Nazi officers with money.

JONA LAKS, survivor of Dr. Josef Mengele’s twins experiments, and granddaughter Lee Aldar pass under the notorious Auschwitz death camp gate in January.

Lemanam for their sake and for ours, a third generation coming of age


Jewish family’s imagined lost correspondence

Letter to my Tatte, a writer's collection of imagined letters between a family members long lost.

The writer’s grandfather, Avraham, with one of the children, probably Nutek, on his knee

Holocaust survivors should be recognized with special day, leaders say

Amid somber Holocaust Remembrance Day events, most still virtual due to the coronavirus pandemic, some are calling for a separate, more upbeat holiday celebrating the resilience of survivors

Holocaust survivors enter Auschwitz 73 years after its liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 2018

Fania’s extraordinary Holocaust story

At 100, Dunetz Brodsky still considers herself a partisan

Fania (Fanny) Dunetz Brodsky turned 100 on November 15, 2020