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Participants in the Miszpucha Foundation trip for Polish Jewish emigrants and their descendants have lunch at the Jewish Community Center in Warsaw, Poland. (Adam de Kaminski via JTA)
'This generation’s story is still something really silenced'
13,000 Jews were driven out of Poland in 1968. Now, some are returning to tell their story
By Shira Li Bartov
Decades after anti-Zionist purge virtually decimated what was left of post-Holocaust Jewish life, government-funded trip brings emigrants back for reunion with those who remained
Participants in the Miszpucha Foundation trip for Polish Jewish emigrants and their descendants have lunch at the Jewish Community Center in Warsaw, Poland. (Adam de Kaminski via JTA)
June 13, 2026, 3:54 pm
13,000 Jews were driven out of Poland in 1968. Now, some are returning to tell their story
Decades after anti-Zionist purge virtually decimated what was left of post-Holocaust Jewish life, government-funded trip brings emigrants back for reunion with those who remained
By Shira Li Bartov
Daniela Gerson is the author of 'The Wanderers.' (Kait Lavo via JTA)
May 16, 2026, 4:09 am
Author tracing family’s Holocaust survival finds partner’s ancestors took same path
Daniela Gerson says that like her grandparents, most of the 300,000 Polish Jews who lived through the war were not in camps, ghettos or forests, but in the mountains of Siberia
By Shira Li Bartov
Holocaust survivor Albrecht Weinberg poses at his home in Leer, Germany, on December 30, 2024. (FOCKE STRANGMANN / AFP)
May 12, 2026, 9:26 pm
Albrecht Weinberg, who survived several camps during Holocaust, dies at 101
Weinberg returned to Germany 14 years ago after living in New York, shared his experience with high school students; Israeli envoy to Germany pays tribute to ‘bridge’ with the past
By AP
Catherine Szkop (left) and Abbie Talmoud, survivors of the terror attack at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, stands at the gate to Auschwitz on April 13, 2026. (Yossi Zeliger)
April 14, 2026, 5:03 pm
At Auschwitz, Diaspora Jews who lived through terror march alongside Holocaust survivors
In the deadliest year for Diaspora Jews in three decades, the March of the Living becomes a meeting place for those who experienced antisemitic persecution on three continents
By Lianne Kolirin
A memorial banner is displayed in Tel Aviv to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 14, 2026. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 14, 2026, 4:35 pm
With memorial siren wailing, Israel remembers Holocaust victims in shadow of war tensions
State ceremony at Yad Vashem takes place without audience amid fighting with Hezbollah, ceasefire with Iran; March of the Living held in Poland, with most Israelis unable to attend
By ToI Staff
Holocaust survivor Penina Zeitchik (center) made aliyah at age 86 on February 18, 2026, welcomed by her son, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. (Courtesy)
April 14, 2026, 12:56 am
Over 80 years after fleeing the Nazis, a survivor moves to Israel, finally home
On her first Holocaust Remembrance Day since realizing her dream of immigrating, Penina Zeitchik aims to gather with grandchildren also living in Israel to share what her family experienced in the war
By Rossella Tercatin
Holocaust survivor Tommy Shaham gives testimony during a Zikaron BaSalon living room commemoration in this undated photo. (Courtesy of Zikaron BaSalon)
April 13, 2026, 8:08 am
From generation to generation: Holocaust and Oct. 7 meet in intimate salon memorials
As the Zikaron BaSalon program grows to over 2 million participants worldwide, former hostages and their families learn from survivors how telling their stories can aid in rehabilitation
By Bernard Dichek
Portrait of Dov Landau, a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor, in his home in Tel Aviv, October 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 12, 2026, 4:36 pm
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, 111,000 survivors living in Israel
Over a quarter are older than 90, two-thirds are women; world Jewish population has still not recovered to numbers it had in 1933, according to Central Bureau of Statistics
By Stuart Winer
Participants with Israel's flag walk along a rail track leading to the gate of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Poland, during the annual March of The Living to honor the victims of the Holocaust on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
April 12, 2026, 1:24 pm
Despite war cancellations, Holocaust survivors from Israel to join March of the Living
Around a dozen survivors, aged 90-100, will travel to Poland though most Israeli delegates forced to cancel; march to be led by survivors of attacks on Jews; former hostages to light torch
By Stuart Winer
German police search an elderly Jewish man at gunpoint in Kolo, Poland, circa 1941. (Courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum/ Instytut Pamieci Narodowej)
April 3, 2026, 2:58 pm
The elderly were among the most vulnerable in the Holocaust – and the most overlooked
‘Eldercide,’ on display at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library through April 30, explores how older Jews were especially unlikely to survive the Nazis, while those who did faced enormous challenges
By Robert Philpot
Holocaust survivor Ginette Kolinka, 100, attends a commemorative ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the return of death camp deportees, in Paris, France, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
March 31, 2026, 1:31 pm
At 101, Holocaust survivor credits Spielberg for her ongoing fight against hatred
Ginette Kolinka, who survived Auschwitz, stayed silent for decades until Hollywood director’s foundation interviewed her in 1997; now, she shares her story in media and schools
By John Leicester
Stephen Lang and Elsie Fisher in 'The Optimist.' (Courtesy of Jeanine Thomas)
March 11, 2026, 3:43 pm
New drama tells true story of Holocaust survivor who helps scores of troubled teens
In US theaters March 11, ‘The Optimist’ portrays how big-hearted toy store owner Herbert Heller came to open up about his experiences – and how his talks impacted youth in distress
By Rich Tenorio
Noam Ash (left) and Charlie Barnett (right) in the 2026 film 'Bookends,' written by Ash. (Courtesy Noam Ash)
March 6, 2026, 9:24 pm
Jewish screenwriting lab’s first film depicts Holocaust survivor and gay grandson
Roommate comedy ‘Bookends’ is based on writer and star Noam Ash’s experience moving in with his grandparents post-breakup
By Jackie Hajdenberg
96-year-old Holocaust survivor Charlotte Roth celebrates her immigration to Israel with one of her great-great-grandchildren, February 18, 2026 (Nefesh B'Nefesh)
February 20, 2026, 4:12 pm
‘Deep joy and strength’: 96-year-old Holocaust survivor is Israel’s newest immigrant
After losing her entire immediate family, Charlotte Roth rebuilt her life in US and spent decades living in Cleveland. Now, the matriarch of four generations is settling in Netanya
By Zev Stub
Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman addresses delegates and state authorities during a commemoration for the victims of the Holocaust at the Bundestag on January 28, 2026 in Berlin. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)
January 28, 2026, 9:06 pm
Holocaust survivor tells German lawmakers she is ‘afraid again to be Jewish’
In speech to Bundestag, Tova Friedman urges MPs to ‘use your power to fight’ resurgent antisemitism, as ‘Jews around the world again feel exposed, targeted and hated’
By AFP
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