Holocaust memorial day

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

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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

The bill - and subsequent reporting - speaks extensively about the "genocide" of Soviet prisoners, the concentration camps, and the extermination camps, without mentioning Jewish victims.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
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

During the visit, the Chief Rabbi of the Netherlands, Binyomin Jacobs, shared how his father, a Holocaust survivor, warned him to always keep money at hand because Jews are never truly safe.

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

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

During the night of May 13 to 14, 2024, the four men carried out over 500 acts of vandalism using a stencil, including 35 in the Paris Holocaust Memorial.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER

Jerusalem's Border Police 'adopt' Holocaust survivors

In Jerusalem specifically, members of the Border Police battalions sit down with survivors at least twice a month.

APRIL 17, 2023ByMAYA ZANGER-NADIS
Jerusalem Border Police pose for a photo with their adopted Holocaust survivor, Ezekiel

Holocaust doc produced by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, to air on PBS

Hillary and Chelsea Clinton produced a documentary about a Holocaust survivor that will debut on PBS on Tuesday, timed to Yom Hashoah.

APRIL 15, 2023ByGABE FRIEDMAN/JTA
FORMER US secretary of state Hillary Clinton speaks about including women in the peace process in Afghanistan, at UN Headquarters in New York in March 2020.

The International March of the Living's 35th anniversary - interview

An interview with International Chair Dr. Shmuel Rosenman and President Phyllis Greenberg Heideman

APRIL 8, 2023ByALAN ROSENBAUM
The first March of the Living in 1988

Israeli play explains the Holocaust through the eyes of a puppy

MARCH 29, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Before and after Auschwitz: the legacy left behind - opinion

78 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, survivors still measure time as "before and after the camps."

JANUARY 29, 2023ByALEX STERNBERG
THE GATE to Auschwitz, photographed in January 2021, 76 years after the camp’s liberation: There are still countless Jews who say about the Shoah, ‘If this could happen, how can anyone still believe in God?’

The risk of forgetting the Holocaust has never been greater - opinion

This year, we have at least some cause for hope. Just weeks ago, the United Arab Emirates announced that it would begin teaching Holocaust education to primary and secondary school students.

JANUARY 28, 2023ByPAUL PACKER
MARCHERS WRAPPED in Israeli flags attend the annual March of the Living at the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp, near Oswiecim, Poland.

German anti-discrimination official under fire for omitting Jews on Holocaust Remembrance

Ferda Ataman, the anti-discrimination commissioner for the German federal government, only acknowledged LGBT+ victims of the holocaust.

JANUARY 27, 2023ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
A CANDLE is lit and a flower is placed on the railway tracks at Birkenau, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, last year.

United Nations Headquarters unveils exhibit listing millions of Holocaust victims

The exhibit features the alphabetically arranged names of 4,800,000 Holocaust victim

JANUARY 26, 2023ByHALEY COHEN
Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan inaugurate the Book of Names at UN headquarters in NYC.

Int'l Holocaust Remembrance ceremony to take place at Massuah

JANUARY 26, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Massuah Institute

Dear Non-Jews, this is what to do this Holocaust Remembrance day - Opinion

In light of the spike in antisemitism, there is something non-Jews need to remember this Holocaust Remembrance day.

JANUARY 25, 2023ByMATT LEVIN, RONEET EDRICH, JOSH BROIDE
A CANDLE is lit and a flower is placed on the railway tracks at Birkenau, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, last year.