July 25, 2017
9:26 pm

Nadia Murad, 24, a Yazidi woman who escaped Islamic State captivity, tours Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on July 24, 2017 (Mickey Noam-Alon/IsraAID)

At Yad Vashem, Yazidi activists seek to learn how to record their genocide

With 3,000 Yazidi women still in IS captivity and hundreds of thousands displaced, survivors tour Holocaust memorial with sights set on their own commemoration

By Marissa Newman

July 21, 2017
3:51 pm

On removing the fear of ‘Other’

It takes grassroots gatherings, like a student tour of Yad Vashem, for Jews and Palestinians to get to know each other

By Uri Pilichowski

July 10, 2017
3:19 pm

A student on a trip to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in modern-day Poland on April 27, 2014. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash 90)

Travel agents face prosecution for Poland memorial trips cartel

14 people suspected of fixing prices on youth trips to Eastern Europe to learn about Holocaust

By Sue Surkes

July 4, 2017
9:55 pm

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center in white, is given a bouquet of flowers during a visit to the Danzinger Flower Farm accompanied by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, far right, on July 4, 2017. (Haim Tzach/GPO)

Israel names new flower in honor of visiting Indian prime minister

Netanyahu accompanies Narendra Modi to Danziger Flower Farm, Yad Vashem, as historic trip begins

By Stuart Winer and Times of Israel staff

July 2, 2017
9:26 pm

Indian Ambassador to Israel Pavan Kapoor in his Tel Aviv office (Courtesy Indian Embassy Tel Aviv)

India has ‘matured,’ so ties with Israel are flowering, envoy says

Ahead of first-ever visit by an Indian PM, Ambassador Kapoor says New Delhi no longer ‘hyphenates’ its relationships with Jerusalem and Ramallah

By Raphael Ahren

June 30, 2017
7:37 pm

A World War II monument in Simferopol, in Crimea. (CC BY SA 3.0 Rumlin/Wikipedia)

Thieves exhume Holocaust victims from Crimean killing trench

Jewish community plans to set up concrete barrier around site and surveillance cameras as deterrence

By JTA

June 24, 2017
2:49 am

Michael Bornstein shows his tattoo to students in Illinois while on tour speaking about standing up to hate. (Courtesy)

In memoir for young adults, harsh WWII life lessons teach about standing up to hate

While touring with ‘Survivors Club,’ Holocaust survivor Michael Bornstein and daughter Debbie Holinstat also inoculate youth against denial

By Cathryn J. Prince

June 10, 2017
2:22 am

A Polish school does teshuvah

The principal called roll with the roster from 1939, giving voice to the Jewish students who were kicked out that year

By Avi Baumol

May 23, 2017
10:59 pm

Jews are marched through the streets during the liquidation of the Krakow Ghetto, 1943 (Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)

Poland school honors 87 Jewish girls expelled under Nazis

Principal at Krakow institution enlists the help of Yad Vashem in tracking down fates of victims

By AP

May 23, 2017
2:32 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) delivers a speech as his wife Sara and US President Donald Trump listen during a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum on May 23, 2017, in Jerusalem. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Full text of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s remarks at Yad Vashem

‘We pledge never to be defenseless again,’ Israeli PM tells Trump at Holocaust memorial

By Times of Israel staff

May 23, 2017
2:26 pm

US President Donald Trump (C-R) and First Lady Melania Trump (C-L) lay a wreath during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum on May 23, 2017, in Jerusalem. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

At Yad Vashem, Trump says Holocaust ‘the most savage crime against God’

In follow-up remarks, Netanyahu invokes recent attacks, says ‘In Manchester, San Bernardino or Jerusalem: Terror is terror is terror’

By Times of Israel staff

May 23, 2017
8:42 am

US President Donald Trump greeting Israeli ministers during his welcome ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport, May 22, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

On second day of visit, Trump to go to PA, give key Israel address

US president’s final hours in the Holy Land will see him meeting Abbas, paying his respects at a brief visit to Yad Vashem

By Jacob Magid

May 23, 2017
8:01 am

Ester Goldstein, left, and sister Margot lived in Berlin before they were separated in 1939. (Courtesy of Yad Vashem/via JTA)

Short on time, Yad Vashem packing emotion into Trump visit

Israel’s Holocaust memorial to focus on the human toll through the story of one German Jewish girl, Ester Goldstein, murdered in the Riga ghetto

By Andrew Tobin

May 22, 2017
10:26 am

US President Donald Trump watching the lighting of memorial candles during the annual Holocaust Day of Remembrance ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda, April 25, 2017. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images via JTA)

The Holocaust elevator pitch, perfected for Trump

The US president will spend 15 minutes in Yad Vashem — enough to lay a wreath and hear a short explanation. Here’s what historians and educators think he should be told

By Raoul Wootliff

May 21, 2017
4:27 pm

US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump wave as they board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, May 19, 2017, prior to his departure on his first overseas trip. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Where Trump walked: Holy Land sites loom large on itinerary

In addition to the Old City’s Western Wall and Church of the Holy Sepulchre, US president to stop at Yad Vashem, Israel Museum and Bethlehem

By AFP

Topic: Yad Vashem