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’


Holocaust survivor tells of deadly 'hide-and-seek' in World War II

A holocaust survivor recalls the brutal years of struggle and survival, and a Christian symbol he feels saved his life.

George Rishfeld addresses a Moultrie, Georgia audience.

Ruth Lubitz: A survivor’s story

Ruth Lubitz escaped Nazi Germany and immigrated to the United States. Her story now takes her to Las Vegas to be close to her family at age 95.

Swastikas displayed in Brussels as part of a light show recalling the Nazi era.

Writing about the Holocaust in 2017

A million and a half Jewish children were murdered.

RENA QUINT, 81, doesn’t fit the stereotype of a Holocaust survivor we’ve internalized from literature and movies.

A shameful attack on Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel's legacy is more important now than ever, a point that Jewish publications ought to consider before publishing weakly argued, hate-filled drivel.

WRITER, NOBEL LAUREATE and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel speaks to the media outside the West Wing of the White House in 2010

Not just a train

The story behind this touching ceremony is the kind of that can happen only here in Jerusalem.

All aboard: (from left) Michal Fundaminski, Shlomo Tuval, David Gross, Rahel Gross and Shimon Futterman at the First Station

Death of Rabbi Pesach Schindler a loss to the Conservative Movement

Born in Munich in April 1931 to Alexander and Esther Schindler, he was fortunate in that his family, despite increasing hardship, was able to get out of Germany after Kristallnacht.

PESACH SCHINDLER

Netanyahu to Macron: 'Your struggle is our struggle' against extremism

Netanyahu and Macron spoke during a ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Vel d'Hiv roundup of French Jews during WWII.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, July 16, 2017

Holocaust survivors group slams results of Claims Conference talks

Foundation charges that compensation falls far short of survivors’ basic needs.

a holocaust survivor wears a yellow Star of David on his jacket during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem

A Depressing Thought

The Jerusalem Post

Hunger as children during Shoah stymies survivors’ rehabilitation today after hip fractures

SURVIVORS GATHER at the Jewish Holocaust Center in Melbourne