September 28, 2016
3:20 pm

(R-L) Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yaser Arafat, the joint Nobel Peace Prize winners for 1994, in Olso, Norway. (Photo by Government Press Office via Getty Images)

Jewish groups around the world praise Peres

Tributes pour in for respected statesman and peacemaker, ‘an important part of our people’

By JTA

September 24, 2016
10:13 am

Jacques Stuzalft, left, helps unveil a plaque remembering the rescue of Jewish children of Lille, France, by local railway workers at a ceremony in the northern French city, Sept. 9, 2016. (City of Lille, via Facebook)

French Holocaust survivor seeks honors for his Rosh Hashanah rescuers

Jacques Stuzalft teams up with local historian in bid to recognize French railway workers who saved dozens of children from Nazis on eve of Jewish New Year in 1942

By Cnaan Liphshiz

September 24, 2016
9:40 am

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan lays a wreath at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem on September 23, 2016 (photo credit: Steve Kwak, Executive Office of the Governor)

Maryland governor hails trade mission to Israel as success

Larry Hogan says there is ‘real synergy between this nation and our state’; touts partnership with cybersecurity firm in Ra’anana

By AP and Times of Israel staff

September 11, 2016
5:06 pm

Israeli firefighter airplanes work to extinguish a fire raging in the Jerusalem Forest on September 11, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Firefighters bring Jerusalem Forest blaze under control

Personnel on the ground and 6 planes still battling to douse fire on western outskirts of capital

By Times of Israel staff

September 11, 2016
6:42 am

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, center, after a speech at a May Day rally in London on May 1, 2016. (AFP/Justin Tallis)

UK Labour’s Corbyn turns down Herzog invite to Yad Vashem

Leader of opposition party facing accusations of rampant anti-Semitism reportedly plans to send his deputy or general secretary to Holocaust museum in his stead

By Times of Israel staff

September 4, 2016
7:29 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 4, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu accepts invitation to visit Down Under in 2017

On official trip to Israel, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop meets with prime minister, president

By Times of Israel staff

August 5, 2016
10:35 pm

Workers are seen at the Shalon gas mask factory in Kiryat Gat, Israel, in August 2013 (photo credit: AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israel buys gas masks from firms that outfitted Nazis at Auschwitz with protective gear

Companies who kept SS guards safe from the Zyklon B they used at gas chambers now sell to Israel’s Defense Ministry, police, fire department

By Times of Israel staff

August 5, 2016
6:06 am

Serena Kassow and her father, Samuel Kassow, on the set of 'Who Will Write Our History?' in Poland, based on Samuel Kassow's book about the 'Oneg Shabbat' archive, May 2016. (Courtesy)

Warsaw ghetto’s secret archive goes Hollywood

New film based on two recovered document troves — out of three buried during the Holocaust — depicts the ‘Oneg Shabbat’ archive’s creators, few of whom survived the Nazi regime

By Matt Lebovic

August 4, 2016
3:38 am

Holocaust survivor, philanthropist Joseph Wilf dies at 91

Polish-born real estate magnate was a major contributor to Jewish causes, including Israel’s Yad Vashem

By JTA

August 3, 2016
5:14 pm

From left to right: Honore Gatera, the director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara, and Rwandan President Paul Kagama, in Kigali, Rwanda, July 6, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Visiting Israel, Netanyahu’s guide to the Rwandan genocide dreams of a better future

The director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial, a survivor himself, reflects on the Holocaust and Iran’s vow to annihilate Israel, agrees incitement drives killing

By Raphael Ahren

July 29, 2016
7:54 pm

Pope Francis meets with camp survivors in the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, July 29, 2016. (L'Osservatore Romano /Pool Photo via AP)

Auschwitz survivors tell pope tales from the abyss

In meeting with pontiff, 11 former prisoners of Nazi death camp and 25 Christian Polish rescuers of Jews recount their harrowing stories

By Agencies and Times of Israel staff

July 29, 2016
5:58 pm

In this Sunday July 10, 2016 file photo, Poland's chief rabbi Michael Schudrich prays during commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of a massacre of Jews in Jedwabne, Poland. (AP/Michal Kosc)

Poland’s chief rabbi behind meeting between pope, Polish rescuers

Rabbi Michael Schudrich played key role in orchestrating symbolic encounter with 25 Christian Poles who saved Jews in WWII

By Vanessa Gera

July 23, 2016
7:27 am

This Monday Aug. 20, 2001, file photo shows French Holocaust survivors gathering at the site of the former Drancy detention camp, north of Paris, France. From Aug. 20, 1941 until the end of World War II, more than 70,000 Jewish men, women and children passed through Drancy on their way to Nazi extermination camps, particularly Auschwitz. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Paris Grand Synagogue under fire for hosting Vichy apologist

CRIF chief slams invitation to Jewish historian who claims pro-Nazi puppet regime tried to save French Jews in Holocaust

By JTA

July 10, 2016
11:43 pm

Jews from Poland and abroad gather for commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of a massacre of Jews in Jedwabne, Poland, on Sunday, July 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Michal Kosc)

US group celebrates Poles who saved Jews during Holocaust

Jewish Foundation for the Righteous honors, helps ‘the precious few who chose not to be bystanders’

By Vanessa Gera

July 7, 2016
7:38 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and 'Bild' newspaper chief editor, Kai Diekmann, right, look at original blueprints of the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland, in Berlin, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 (AP Photo/Rainer Jensen, Pool)

Netanyahu unwittingly secreted original Auschwitz blueprints to Israel

German government wanted to hold on to historical documents, but journalist thought they should be in Yad Vashem

By JTA

Topic: Yad Vashem

Jewish groups around the world praise Peres

Tributes pour in for respected statesman and peacemaker, ‘an important part of our people’

French Holocaust survivor seeks honors for his Rosh Hashanah rescuers

Jacques Stuzalft teams up with local historian in bid to recognize French railway workers who saved dozens of children from Nazis on eve of Jewish New Year in 1942

Maryland governor hails trade mission to Israel as success

Larry Hogan says there is ‘real synergy between this nation and our state’; touts partnership with cybersecurity firm in Ra’anana

Firefighters bring Jerusalem Forest blaze under control

Personnel on the ground and 6 planes still battling to douse fire on western outskirts of capital

UK Labour’s Corbyn turns down Herzog invite to Yad Vashem

Leader of opposition party facing accusations of rampant anti-Semitism reportedly plans to send his deputy or general secretary to Holocaust museum in his stead

Netanyahu accepts invitation to visit Down Under in 2017

On official trip to Israel, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop meets with prime minister, president

Israel buys gas masks from firms that outfitted Nazis at Auschwitz with protective gear

Companies who kept SS guards safe from the Zyklon B they used at gas chambers now sell to Israel’s Defense Ministry, police, fire department

Warsaw ghetto’s secret archive goes Hollywood

New film based on two recovered document troves — out of three buried during the Holocaust — depicts the ‘Oneg Shabbat’ archive’s creators, few of whom survived the Nazi regime

Holocaust survivor, philanthropist Joseph Wilf dies at 91

Polish-born real estate magnate was a major contributor to Jewish causes, including Israel’s Yad Vashem

Visiting Israel, Netanyahu’s guide to the Rwandan genocide dreams of a better future

The director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial, a survivor himself, reflects on the Holocaust and Iran’s vow to annihilate Israel, agrees incitement drives killing

Auschwitz survivors tell pope tales from the abyss

In meeting with pontiff, 11 former prisoners of Nazi death camp and 25 Christian Polish rescuers of Jews recount their harrowing stories

Poland’s chief rabbi behind meeting between pope, Polish rescuers

Rabbi Michael Schudrich played key role in orchestrating symbolic encounter with 25 Christian Poles who saved Jews in WWII

Paris Grand Synagogue under fire for hosting Vichy apologist

CRIF chief slams invitation to Jewish historian who claims pro-Nazi puppet regime tried to save French Jews in Holocaust

US group celebrates Poles who saved Jews during Holocaust

Jewish Foundation for the Righteous honors, helps ‘the precious few who chose not to be bystanders’

Netanyahu unwittingly secreted original Auschwitz blueprints to Israel

German government wanted to hold on to historical documents, but journalist thought they should be in Yad Vashem

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