Holocaust survivors

Haifa court stops auction of yellow star, Holocaust-era documents

Yad Ezer La-Haver operates the Holocaust Museum in Haifa and manages the shelter that provides lodging and food for tens of Holocaust survivors.

The Holocaust-era items sold at the auction.
Holocaust survivor Albrecht Weinberg, 99, poses in inside his old classroom at the memorial at the former Jewish School before a discussion with foreign journalists a week before the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 20, 2025 in Leer, Germany.

Holocaust survivor Albrecht Weinberg, who moved back to Germany in his 80's, dies aged 101

Clinical psychologist, professor and author Edith Eger poses during an interview with AFP on May 7, 2019, in Lausanne.

Renowned psychologist and Auschwitz survivor Edith Eger dies at 98

Chef Alon Shaya uses food and memory to preserve Holocaust stories for a new generation.

When food becomes memory: Alon Shaya's culinary tribute to Holocaust survivors


Lighting the torch: The survivors at the heart of Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony

HOLOCAUST AFFAIRS: This year, eight survivors will take part in key roles in the state ceremony on Monday evening at 8 p.m.

THIS YEAR’S eight survivors carry within them an enormous sweep of Jewish history: ghettos, pits, forests, camps, cattle cars, shootings, hiding places, and then, after all that, lives rebuilt in Israel. Here, President Isaac Herzog stands beside the memorial torch at Yad Vashem.

Writing through war: Helping Israelis process trauma across generations - opinion

Over the past two and a half years, I’ve often turned to my pen. While so much has been rattled and shaken - writing became my way to make sense of it all, and a source of comfort.

AT ZEIDA’S last liberation dinner in Melbourne, Australia, 2015

Letters of love and survival: A Holocaust love story preserved at Yad Vashem

A young Orthodox couple in Hungary exchanged messages that sustained them through forced labor, ghettos, brazen escapes, and months in hiding.

(L-R): MEIR HIRSCHFELD, 1936. IDIT PAPA, 1942

Why I declined Megyn Kelly’s invitation - opinion

The sad reality is that the fastest way to capture attention is outrage. The louder the claim, the faster it spreads.

Megyn Kelly speaks during a Donald Trump campaign rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, November 4, 2024.

WATCH: 105-year-old Holocaust survivor celebrates birthday in bomb shelter during sirens

Approximately 196,000 Holocaust survivors are alive globally, with half of those living in Israel.

105-year-old Holocaust survivor Miriam celebrates her birthday with singer Regev Hot in a bomb shelter in Haifa in March 2026.

Holocaust survivor, descendants urge High Court to allow Gaza children medical access

Letter read by The Jerusalem Post invokes Holocaust-era rescue precedent to argue for “children’s exception” in wartime policy.

 Children look out of a building as Palestinian Hamas terrorists stand guard on the day of the handover of hostages, including those held in Gaza since the deadly October 7 2023 attack, February 22, 2025.

Grapevine: Sheltering routine

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Children play in a Jerusalem shelter

Pack a Seder: How one box is reaching Israel's most isolated survivors

“These are Holocaust survivors, elderly that we are in touch with throughout the year, all the time,” Zalman Duchman said.

"The fact that you thought to come, took time out of your schedule, to come to their home - the light that it brings is rewarding beyond description."

White House showcases letters from each state praising Trump administration

The letters, allegedly from real Americans, are written from a variety of perspectives, including soldiers, veterans, and young children. All are exuberant in praising Trump's time in office.

US President Donald Trump holds a note that was handed to him by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a roundtable on Antifa, an anti-fascist movement Trump designated a domestic "terrorist organization" via executive order on September 22, at the White House in Washington, October 8, 2025.

96-year-old Holocaust survivor completes Aliyah in Tel Aviv

Charlotte Roth makes Aliyah, surrounded by five generations of descendants

96-year-old Holocaust survivor Charlotte Roth formally completed her Aliyah