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’


Children of Selvino: post-Holocaust life in an Italian town

More than 800 orphans lived in a compound called Sciesopoli, which was formerly used to house the children of Fascist officers under Benito Mussolini.

The Sciesopoli children’s home where 800 Jewish orphans came in 1945 and where they prepared for life in Israel

Holocaust Instagram project Eva.Stories wins ‘Internet Oscar’

the digital commemoration project that recounts the true story of a Jewish girl during the Holocaust won Webby award in the Best Use of Stories category.

Eva.Stories, the award-winning Holocaust Instagram project

Kiss frontman Gene Simmons learns of his Holocaust survivor mother’s life

Kiss frontman Gene Simmons said his mother almost never spoke about her Holocaust ordeal, including time in Nazi camps.

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Israeli judge halts auction of 11-year-old Holocaust victim’s letter

The injunction from the Tel Aviv District Court halted the sale of all the letters.

SERBIA’S PRESIDENT Tomislav Nikolic looks at pictures of Jews killed in the Holocaust during a visit to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem

What I learned From Shoshana Ovitz

Another attitude always permeated the psyche of these people as well. They all remembered that it is incredibly important to give to others who were not as lucky as they were.

PEOPLE VISIT the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in May.

Kindertransport survivors taken to retrace escape from Holocaust

The trip commemorates the 80th anniversary of the kindertransports between 1938 and 1939, which saved some 10,000 children from Central European countries.

 The Kindertransport memorial at Liverpool Street Station in London.

Building bridges to remember the Holocaust

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.

RABBI YISRAEL MEIR LAU stands at the main gate of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz with the words ‘Arbeit macht frei’ (Work sets you free), on February 1, 2011

Chelsea Women's Soccer Team hear harrowing tale of Holocaust survivor

In 1945 she was liberated by the British army, after the Holocaust already took the lives of more than 50 of Pollack's relatives.

Holocaust survivor Susan Pollack meets with the Chelsea Women's Football Team

No where to go: Michael Dobbs pens well-researched tale of Holocaust victims

Michael Dobbs has penned a well-researched but dispassionate tale of the Jews in one German town during the Holocaust.

Women cook in the Gurs concentration camp in France during the Holocaust

$30 million more allotted to French train deportations survivors

$60 million are going altogether to French train deportations survivors and their families.

A flower lies in the train tracks at Gleis 17 memorial in Berlin, where thousands of Holocaust victims were deported to concentration camps