The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/yad-vashem/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:24:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png Yad Vashem | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/yad-vashem/ 32 32 Yad Vashem to open Holocaust education center in Munich, first outside Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/yad-vashem-to-open-holocaust-education-center-in-munich-first-outside-israel/ Fri, 29 May 2026 03:51:35 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?post_type=liveblog_entry&p=3832720 'In a world without Holocaust survivors, one needs new ways to tell the story,' says head of Berlin-based Friends of Yad Vashem; extension also planned in Germany's Leipzig

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]]> In the Łódź Ghetto, Jews defied Nazis through art. Now it is exhibited in Jerusalem https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-the-lodz-ghetto-jews-defied-nazis-through-art-now-it-is-exhibited-in-jerusalem/ Wed, 13 May 2026 01:48:01 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3800972 The second-largest city in Poland had a thriving Jewish cultural scene before The Third Reich incarcerated 164,000 Jews for slave labor. A Yad Vashem exhibit shows their resilience

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]]> With memorial siren wailing, Israel remembers Holocaust victims in shadow of war tensions https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-memorial-siren-wailing-israel-remembers-holocaust-victims-in-shadow-of-war-tensions/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:35:21 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?post_type=liveblog_entry&p=3801739 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

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]]> Netanyahu rebukes Europe as Israel commemorates Holocaust in shadow of Iran war https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-rebukes-europe-as-israel-commemorates-holocaust-in-shadow-of-iran-war/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:28:32 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3801402 PM says continent 'afflicted by deep moral weakness,' Israel now defending it; Herzog urges national unity, eulogizing fallen soldier whose grandmother survived Bergen-Belsen

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]]> Amid echoes of war, these survivors will light Yom Hashoah torches in pre-recorded ceremony https://www.timesofisrael.com/amid-echoes-of-war-these-survivors-will-light-yom-hashoah-torches-in-pre-recorded-ceremony/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:35:11 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3796311 Yad Vashem announces that the live broadcast of this year's event, under the theme 'The Jewish Family During the Holocaust,' has been replaced by a taped program, without giving a reason

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]]> Counting the days: How Jews clung to the Hebrew calendar as Nazis tried to erase it https://www.timesofisrael.com/counting-the-days-how-jews-clung-to-the-hebrew-calendar-as-nazis-tried-to-erase-it/ Wed, 28 Jan 2026 02:55:36 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3732744 A new exhibition at Yad Vashem highlights the extraordinary efforts made, often at risk of death, to preserve and mark the Jewish holidays during the darkest of times

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]]> Russia accused of Holocaust distortion over ‘Genocide of the Soviet People’ memorial day https://www.timesofisrael.com/russia-accused-of-holocaust-distortion-over-genocide-of-the-soviet-people-memorial-day/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 01:38:55 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3730069 New remembrance day created by the Kremlin omits any mention of Jewish Holocaust victims, despite falling on the same date as the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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]]> German painting of Anne Frank wearing keffiyeh sparks outrage https://www.timesofisrael.com/german-painting-of-anne-frank-in-keffiyeh-sparks-outrage/ Thu, 25 Dec 2025 13:12:41 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3719697 German and Israeli officials say the depiction of the teen girl, a universal symbol of the Holocaust, crosses the line from legitimate art to antisemitic propaganda

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]]> Merz to visit Israel for 1st time as German chancellor, will meet PM and visit Yad Vashem https://www.timesofisrael.com/merz-to-visit-israel-for-1st-time-as-german-chancellor-will-meet-pm-and-visit-yad-vashem/ Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:35:02 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3700183 German chancellor to discuss ceasefire, bilateral ties at meeting with Netanyahu next month; will be first elected leader of a major European country to visit Israel in over a year

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]]> Poland summons Israeli envoy over Yad Vashem social media post https://www.timesofisrael.com/poland-summons-israeli-envoy-over-yad-vashem-social-media-post/ Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:31:04 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3696575 Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski and others fume at lack of explicit clarification in initial post that Poland was German-occupied while Nazi crimes took place

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]]> Never-revealed Holocaust artifacts illuminate tragedy and triumph in new Yad Vashem exhibit https://www.timesofisrael.com/never-revealed-holocaust-artifacts-illuminate-tragedy-and-triumph-in-new-yad-vashem-exhibit/ Thu, 13 Nov 2025 04:01:23 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3681011 The Living Memory exhibition brings individual experiences to the fore with deeply personal effects from the museum's vast archives

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]]> Yad Vashem says it has compiled 5 million names of Jews murdered in Holocaust https://www.timesofisrael.com/yad-vashem-says-it-has-compiled-5-million-names-of-jews-murdered-in-holocaust/ Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:35:45 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3679972 Milestone achieved with the help of survivors and relatives worldwide; most of the remaining million names will likely never be found, the Holocaust memorial center says

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]]> 84 years after Babyn Yar massacre, names of 1,000 previously unknown victims revealed https://www.timesofisrael.com/84-years-after-babyn-yar-massacre-names-of-1000-previously-unknown-victims-revealed/ Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:27:37 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3652434 Under the shadow of Russian invasion, researchers scramble to digitize artifacts of Ukrainian Jewish life, providing new insights into the murder of 33,771 Jews in Kyiv in September 1941

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]]> South African interviewer fired for challenging comparison of Gaza war to Holocaust https://www.timesofisrael.com/south-african-interviewer-ousted-for-challenging-comparison-of-gaza-war-to-holocaust/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:07:45 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3632534 Juliet Newell called the juxtaposition 'provocative,' noted the issues are different, prompting SABC broadcaster to boot her under pro-Palestinian pressure; Yad Vashem: 'A moral failure'

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]]> UK historian defies experts, discovers unknown Kindertransport records deep in Yad Vashem https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-historian-defies-experts-discovers-unknown-kindertransport-records-deep-in-yad-vashem/ Sun, 03 Aug 2025 04:49:13 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3601730 Believed not to exist, records found in Jerusalem archives name 9,000 Jewish children saved in rescue operations out of Nazi-occupied Europe between 1938-1940

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