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’


Passing the torch of memory to our students

March of the Living

'Au Revoir, Mama'

Mama” Alex Buckman was only four years old when Mme. Andrée Geulen, a 20-year-old Brussels school teacher who saved many Jewish children, hid him from the Nazis.

Suvivor Alex Buckman and two students on the 2010 March of the Living

Why a Holocaust survivor keeps returning to Poland

Nate Leipciger is a Holocaust survivor who has joined March of the Living 17 times since 1988.

Survivor Edward Mosberg lights a memorial torch with his granddaughter on the 2016 March of the Living

Taking ownership of our story

Naftali Bennett

International March of the Living Honors the Memory of Joseph Wilf

Wilf was born in 1925 in Poland and passed away in 2016.

Joseph Wilf

Student photo project infuses life into memories of Holocaust survivors

Color to Life aims to bring the stories behind the pictures back to life, through their restoration.

Holocaust survivor Anna Medved has only one photograph from her childhood - an image of herself as a seven-year-old girl in pre-WWII Ukraine, in 1933

Comptroller: Bureaucracy keeps Holocaust survivors from receiving rights

The State Comptroller's report, released on Wednesday shortly before Holocaust Memorial Day, indicated that Holocaust survivors in the country were not getting the rights they deserve.

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

Adopt-A-Safta’ pairs youth with at-risk Holocaust survivors

In an effort to alleviate that sense of isolation, the non-profit NGO Adopt-A-Safta is pairing young professionals with at-risk survivors to provide communication, affection and invaluable resources.

Commemorative candles to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Poverty should not be a must for Holocaust survivors

Meet just a few of the survivors whose lives have been changed by the Aviv for Holocaust Survivors Organization.

Aviv for Holocaust Survivors

THIS year in Jerusalem

Members of the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel mark the holiday of Sigd in Jerusalem November 20, 2014