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’


A tunnel of hope in the Holocaust

Fania Dunetz Brodsky and the most successful escape of the Shoah

Fania Dunetz after the war circa 1945

Appointment to Yad Vashem chair is a sensitive subject – opinion

I am afraid Effi Eitam is much too extreme, and he could tarnish the reputation of Yad Vashem as a memorial and as a museum.

HALL OF Names, Yad Vashem.

Let there be light

The message of Kristallnacht after 82 years

VIRTUAL PLAQUE commemorating Kristallnacht, written by Ruth Zimbler.

Betty’s Holocaust story

A personal recollection, and how a newly-found letter helped bring closure.

Betty Eppel

Prof. Dov Levin: From Kovno to Jerusalem

On the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, we trace one man’s arduous journey to Eretz Yisrael

PROF. DOV LEVIN in his Jerusalem garden

The story of two sisters and a felled tree

The amazing story of two sisters who made aliyah after surviving the Shoah

Batsheva Karubelnik Leviatan and her sister Ida Marcus (right) in 1999 at the Sea of Galilee

Austria will allow Holocaust victims' descendants to receive citizenship

The amendment is “in line with Austria’s ongoing endeavour for reconciliation with all those who suffered under the totalitarian Nazi-regime in Austria,” Austria’s government website states.

President Rivlin received diplomatic credentials from new ambassadorsof Austria, Cambodia,Belarus, Kazakhstan and Angola to Israel

She is a star: A loving interview with Inge Auerbacher

Inge Auerbacher, a child Holocaust survivor, became a successful chemist, writer and public speaker.

Inge Auerbacher, holding her doll, speaks about her life during a Holocaust Remembrance Day event at the Lincoln Theater in New York in 2013

Two suspects to stand trial in killing of Paris Holocaust survivor

The charred body of Mireille Knoll, 85, was discovered in her apartment on March 23, 2018.

Red tape police seals and a photograph are seen on the front door of the appartment of Mireille Knoll, a Holocaust survivor who was killed in her apartment in Paris, France

After 76 years, Israeli discovers fate of father killed by Nazis in Rome

David Reicher was only three months old when his father disappeared forever at the beginning of 1944.

Italy's President Mattarella visits the Fosse Ardeatine, National Monument and Memorial Cemetery of victims of German occupation, in Rome,  in Rome January 31, 2015.