Holocaust memorial day

'World, Open Your Eyes'

Holocaust Survivors Refuse to Be Silenced. This Year They Will March on the March of the Living Against Antisemitism

Auschwitz, Poland
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Kazbek Kokov, head of the North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria, in Moscow, Russia December 16, 2025.

Putin establishes Soviet genocide memorial day, erasing Jewish victims of Nazis

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Rabbi Menachem Margolin EJA Chairman in a tour of Auschwitz.

'It can happen again,' former UK PM Boris Johnson says at Birkenau

Blood-red hands  graffiti on the Paris Holocaust memorial, May 14, 2024.

French court explores Russian involvement in antisemitic graffiti at Paris Holocaust Memorial


Bringing Ukraine closer to Europe, Zelensky marks 1945 Nazi surrender

Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender came into force at 11:01 p.m. on May 8, 1945, which was already May 9 in Moscow. Russians call the war the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.

 UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT Volodymyr Zelensky takes part in a commemoration ceremony for the victims of the massacre of Jews at Babyn Yar during the Holocaust, in January.

Light amid the darkness

New film pays tribute to a small number of Righteous Among the Nations, who in sharp contrast to most people, showed boundless courage and compassion in risking their lives to save Jews from Nazis.

 Sigmund Krinski kissing Sidney Zoltak

From Destruction to Rebirth

March of the Living participants will visit Israel to experience the Jewish reawakening

  Avi Dickstein

A day not only an act of remembrance, but a remembrance to act - opinion

At this important historical inflection moment, we should ask ourselves what have we learned over the last 80 years and more importantly, what must we do.

 PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog walks with Polish President Andrzej Duda and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, in Warsaw, last Wednesday

New Italian film about love in fascist Italy, shows the complex lives of Italian Jews and gentiles

Director says it's time to clearly challenge issues that cause controversy, tackles the lives of people living in fascist Italy.

 A SCENE from Giuseppe Piccioni's 'The Shadow of the Day.'

Rabbi Wasserman at the Verge of the Holocaust: I will Share the Fate of My Students

 A CANDLE is lit and a flower is placed on the railway tracks at Birkenau, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, last year.

Lapid at Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony: We cannot trust anyone but ourselves

During his speech, the opposition leader attempted to answer a question that he said had haunted the Jewish people since the very last train headed to Auschwitz. 

 Opposition leader Yair Lapid speaks at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Yad Mordechai, April 17, 2023.

'There's no daylight between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to combating antisemitism'

The 2023 March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau would be jointly led by US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides and his immediate predecessor, Ambassador David Friedman.

 Current U.S Ambassador Thomas R. Neidas with former ambassador David Friedman

Entrepreneur Haim Taib will light the torch for the Jews of Muslim countries for the first time

For the first time in history, the March of the Living is dedicating the lighting of a memorial torch to the Jews of Tunisia and North Africa.

 Haim Taib

Eitan Neishlos speaks at President’s Residence as part of Zikaron BaSalon commemoration

Neishlos on spoke Monday at the President’s Residence as part of a week of Holocaust Remembrance Day events.

Eitan Neishlos with Michal and Isaac Herzog