Yom hashoah

Pro-Palestinian activists are banned from Buchenwald, where survivors vowed to fight for peace

Kufiyas in Buchenwald argued that their protest would honor the memory of Buchenwald’s victims together with all “victims of genocide and fascism.”

APRIL 14, 2026|BySHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA

Two people stand at a plaque at the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial near Weimar, Germany, Jan. 26, 2018.

Officers of the Serbian Army stand to attention as they attend a memorial service during the Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 22, 2024 in Belgrade, in front of the monument commemorating the victims of the "Staro Sajmiste" World War II concentration camp on the banks of the Sava river.

Europe failed the test of the Shoah. Is it failing again to confront absolute evil? - opinion

October 7 was the day of massacre. October 8 was the day of reckoning: the moment when Europe, 80 years after the Holocaust, was tested on whether it had truly learned anything from its past.

APRIL 13, 2026|ByABRAHAM COOPER, DANIEL SCHUSTER / THE MEDIA LINE

A SCREEN GRAB of Claude Lanzmann driving, from the documentary, ‘All I Had Was Nothingness’.

Lanzmann’s 'Shoah' returns to Jerusalem in special Cinematheque tribute

Lanzmann’s genius was to understand that the details were the story, that in the deepest sense, it was impossible to memorialize the Holocaust without knowing exactly what happened.

JANUARY 18, 2026|ByHANNAH BROWN

IDF soldiers marked Holocaust Remembrance Day in combat zones, April, 2025.

IDF soldiers mark Holocaust Remembrance Day in Gaza, Syria, Lebanon

The IDF stated that “even in the midst of ongoing missions, we remain mindful of our past and those we have lost."

APRIL 25, 2025|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Watch: The 35th March of the Living 2023

Marking 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

APRIL 17, 2023ByINTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING

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.

New York’s indifference to the Shoah - opinion

Interestingly, the parades honoring Pétain and Laval each occurred in October 1931. This was about a decade before their crimes of genocide against the Jewish people took place.

APRIL 30, 2022ByROOKIE, HESHIE BILLET

A TICKER TAPE parade takes place in New York City’s ‘Canyon of Heroes’ in lower Manhattan last summer to honor essential workers for their work during the outbreak of COVID-19.

Christians march through Berlin: 'For peace, against antisemitism'

Descendants of Holocaust survivors walked together with the descendants of Nazi perpetrators.

APRIL 28, 2022ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

Video: ‘What are we doing about saying never again?’

From the blog of Jerusalem Jane on the eve of Yom HaShoah

APRIL 27, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Jane Kiel ("Jerusalem Jane") on Yom HaShoah

Israel applies to head International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance

The year 2025 will mark the 25th anniversary of IHRA’s establishment and 80 years to the end of World War II.

APRIL 27, 2022ByLAHAV HARKOV

International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance

Bundestag president arrives in Israel ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day

Bundestag president Bärbel Bas will take part in events marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Knesset this week.

APRIL 27, 2022ByGIL HOFFMAN

Bundestag president Bärbel Bas with Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy, April 27,2022

Nearly half of Israelis fear a second Holocaust is coming - poll

The poll, which found that women and the ultra-Orthodox are more worried about another Holocaust, was conducted just days ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, starting Wednesday evening, April 27.

APRIL 27, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF