Yad Vashem

Jewish woman once held up by Nazis as ideal Aryan baby dead at 91

Born in Berlin in 1934 to Latvian Jewish parents Jacob and Polin Levinson, Taft was photographed when she was 6 months old by a German photographer, Hans Ballin.

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HESSY TAFT poses holding a photograph of herself taken in 1935 by well-known German photographer Hans Ballin during an interview with Reuters July 9, 2014.
President Isaac Herzog (C) flanked by Dayan and IHRA Secretary-General Michaela Küchler at the IHRA plenary

At the crossroads of Holocaust remembrance

A conversation with Dr. Yael Richler-Friedman, pedagogical director of Yad Vashem’s International Institute for Holocaust Education

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Megilat Hitler, now displayed at Yad Vashem's active synagogue, which opened on January 1.

Faith under persecution: Yad Vashem exhibit on keeping the Jewish calendar in the Shoah opens

Handwritten calendars, prayer books, and testimonies at Yad Vashem show how Jewish life and tradition endured during the Holocaust.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
As International Holocaust Remembrance Day approaches we ask whether the lessons of the past have taught us anything?

Happy(ish) New Year: Holocaust remembrance as warning in an age of resurgent antisemitism

A new year invites hope – but Holocaust Remembrance Day nears amid violent antisemitism. This issue looks back to warn: preserve names, memory, and truth.

|ByRUTH MARKS EGLASH

Grapevine March 31, 2024: An emotional visit

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

MARCH 31, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
YEHUDIT RAVITZ performs at the jubilee ceremony of the IDF Disabled Veterans Organization, in 2000, in Tel Aviv.

Handmade Purim noisemaker from Holocaust transit camp donated to Yad Vashem

The grogger belonged to the late Marcel Micenmacher, who survived the Holocaust with few other objects to serve as mementos from his parents, who were murdered at Auschwitz in 1942. 

MARCH 22, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Purim noisemaker, handmade by Kelman Micenmacher for his son Marcel in Nazi-occupied France in 1941. The grogger is now in the collection of Yad Vashem.

Grapevine March 14, 2024: All at sea

Movers and shakers of Israeli society.

MARCH 15, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
RA'ANANA MAYOR Chaim Broyde with Mindy Ajzner.

The Holocaust museum in the Netherlands was desperately needed - opinion

Today, amid the passage of time, we are once again witness to an all too familiar and worrying trend of antisemitism and ignorance.

MARCH 12, 2024ByDANI DAYAN
THE WRITER (left) meets with King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and President Isaac Herzog at the opening of the new Dutch National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam.

Russia spreads claims Yad Vashem hides Ukraine Nazi collaboration

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova shared on her Telegram channel claims by a Russian language Youtube channel that Yad Vashem had been hiding material on the Holocaust in Ukraine.

MARCH 4, 2024ByMICHAEL STARR
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova speaks during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 15, 2022.

Yad Vashem marks over 100 days of hostages held in Gaza

As Israel marked 100 days since the Hamas attack on October 7, Yad Vashem held a special event to mark the onslaught and show support for the abductees. 

FEBRUARY 4, 2024ByMARC NEUGROSCHEL
NAAMA EGOZI (L), head of Yad Vashem’s teacher training division, interviews Liat Beinin Atzili of Kibbutz Nir Oz, who shared some of her experiences in captivity.

Jerusalem highlights January 26-February 1

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

JANUARY 27, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN
CELLIST JULIAN STECKEL.

Yad Vashem chairman speaks out against genocidal calls on college campuses

The statement specifically criticizes the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and UPenn for their alarming indifference.

DECEMBER 6, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan speaking at The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference on June 5, 2023.

Most troubling manifestation of current antisemitism is its 'academization' - Yad Vashem Chairman

Speaking at the Jerusalem Post conference 'The Second Front,' Dani Dayan, Chairman of Yad Vashem, expressed concern about what is happening on college campuses.

DECEMBER 5, 2023ByALAN ROSENBAUM
Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan

WATCH: The Second Front conference on antisemitism

Broadcast event: The battle for Israel and the Jewish people

NOVEMBER 27, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The Second Front - A Jerusalem Post event.