Yad Vashem

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.

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

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.

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‘SHOAH’ BY Claude Lanzmann.

Streaming services unveil Holocaust Memorial Day 2026 programming

A highlight of this programming will be a new HOT edition of Zikaron BaSalon (Hebrew for “Remembrance in the Living Room”), an intimate project in which Holocaust survivors recount their stories.

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PEOPLE ATTEND a vigil organised by the Campaign Against Antisemitism and Chabad UK to honour victims of the Bondi attack in Sydney and mark the second night of Hanukkah, in London, Britain, December 15, 2025.

Grapevine, April 10, 2026: Toxic antisemitism

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

From Yad Vashem to the site of Supernova, bearing witness is critical - opinion

When we bear witness, we have the honor of standing with those who are suffering and sharing just a fraction of their pain.

JULY 29, 2024ByAVERY CHENAULT
MEMBERS OF a Passages delegation attend a memorial gathering for the victims of the Supernova massacre.

Education is the silver bullet for combatting antisemitism - opinion

The International Conference is a recognition that Holocaust education must adapt to the changing dynamics of our world

JULY 4, 2024ByDANI DAYAN
THE WRITER addresses the International Conference on Holocaust Education at Yad Vashem, this week.

Guardians of the Holocaust’s legacy

The New Moshal Shoah Legacy Campus and the David and Fela Shapell Family Collection Center to open at Yad Vashem

JULY 1, 2024ByPENINA HOROWITZ
THE NEW Moshal Shoah Legacy Campus on the Mount of Remembrance; aerial photo.

European Union to co-sponsor new immersive Yad Vashem exhibit

The new project aims to resurrect Jewish communities destroyed during the Holocaust, bringing forward surviving testimonies in immersive detail with the use of new technologies. 

MAY 29, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Olivér Várhelyi, and Yad Vashem chairman, Danny Dannon, at Yad Vashem, May 28, 2024.

October 7 hero creates 'Survived to tell' initiative to recount survivor testimonies

Turning tragedy into teachable moments through virtual reality: This project aims to spark a global dialogue rooted in empathy and recognizing our shared humanity.

MAY 16, 2024ByNIMROD PALMACH
“Survived to Tell – Be the Witness” experience.

The state of Holocaust education is dire, and the situation is failing survivors - opinion

The rot goes much deeper and has spread among the highly educated who don’t dispute that the Holocaust happened – and even commemorate it.

MAY 12, 2024ByANDREA SAMUELS
‘THE WORLD Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’; Holocaust education, which includes books like this one, is failing survivors, says the writer.

Holocaust researchers use AI to search for unnamed victims

The technology used can quickly and efficiently process testimonies and identify names.

MAY 6, 2024ByREUTERS
Visitors tour an exhibition ahead of Israel's national Holocaust memorial day, at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Observing with renewed urgency post-Oct. 7

Remembering, reflecting, and raising awareness: Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024 in the shadow of Oct. 7.

MAY 5, 2024BySIMMY ALLEN
View of Lublin Street in Chełm, Poland, pre-war. (Courtesy Yad Vashem, Source: ‘Chelm Yizkor Buch,’ published by the Chelmner Landsmannschaft in Yiddish, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1954)

Yad Vashem, Prison Service reveal Holocaust education for inmates

This joint Yad Vashem and Israel Prison Service initiative is part of a broader educational movement within the penal system.

MAY 4, 2024ByPELED ARBELI
Inmates take part in program that teaches Holocaust education.

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Six stories of survival, resilience

The heart-wrenching Holocaust stories of Pnina Hefer, Allegra Gutta, Arie Eitani, Raisa Brodsky, Michael Bar-On, and Izi Kabilio.

MAY 3, 2024BySIMMY ALLEN
A SURVIVOR lights a torch at Yad Vashem on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021.