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People visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, on January 9, 2025. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
May 29, 2026, 6:51 am
Yad Vashem to open Holocaust education center in Munich, first outside Israel
‘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
By Zev Stub and JTA
'Figures in the Ghetto,' by Zvi Hersz Szylis (Art Collection, Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem)
May 13, 2026, 4:48 am
In the Łódź Ghetto, Jews defied Nazis through art. Now it is exhibited in Jerusalem
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
By Zev Stub
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
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum, at Israel's pre-recorded state Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony, April 13, 2026. (Screenshot/GPO)
April 13, 2026, 11:28 pm
Netanyahu rebukes Europe as Israel commemorates Holocaust in shadow of Iran war
PM says continent ‘afflicted by deep moral weakness,’ Israel now defending it; Herzog urges national unity, eulogizing fallen soldier whose grandmother survived Bergen-Belsen
By Lazar Berman, Zev Stub and ToI Staff
A Holocaust survivor lights one of six torches representing the six million victims of the Nazi genocide, during the opening ceremony, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, of Israel's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 17, 2023. (Eric Marmor/Flash90)
April 11, 2026, 4:35 am
Amid echoes of war, these survivors will light Yom Hashoah torches in pre-recorded ceremony
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announces that the live broadcast of this year’s event, under the theme ‘The Jewish Family During the Holocaust,’ has been replaced by a taped program, without giving a reason
By Zev Stub
This photo, taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January, 1945, shows a group of children behind barbed wire fencing in the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Nazi concentration camp. (AP Photo)
January 28, 2026, 4:55 am
Counting the days: How Jews clung to the Hebrew calendar as Nazis tried to erase it
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
By Zev Stub
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the monument 'Motherland' at the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery in Saint Petersburg, on January 27, 2025, marking the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad from Nazi blockade in World War Two (Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Pool/ AFP)
January 9, 2026, 3:38 am
Russia accused of Holocaust distortion over ‘Genocide of the Soviet People’ memorial day
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
By ToI Staff
'Anne Frank: The Exhibition,' at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, January 2025. (John Halpern)
December 25, 2025, 3:12 pm
German painting of Anne Frank wearing keffiyeh sparks outrage
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
By Zev Stub
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivers the opening speech at an economic summit hosted by German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung at the Adlon Hotel in Berlin, November 17, 2025. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)
November 28, 2025, 6:35 pm
Merz to visit Israel for 1st time as German chancellor, will meet PM and visit Yad Vashem
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
By Agencies
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski speaks while meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, not pictured, February 26, 2024, at the State Department in Washington. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
November 24, 2025, 8:31 pm
Poland summons Israeli envoy over Yad Vashem social media post
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
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A wardrobe pierced by a bayonet (with a hole in the upper right), and a tree trunk that a young man hid in to escape the Nazis are two of the artifacts displayed in Yad Vashem's Living Memory exhibition (Yad Vashem)
November 13, 2025, 6:01 am
Never-revealed Holocaust artifacts illuminate tragedy and triumph in new Yad Vashem exhibit
The Living Memory exhibition brings individual experiences to the fore with deeply personal effects from the museum’s vast archives
By Zev Stub
Illustrative: Visitors are seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on May 2, 2024, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 3, 2025, 3:35 pm
Yad Vashem says it has compiled 5 million names of Jews murdered in Holocaust
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
By Zev Stub
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at the monument to Jewish victims of Nazi massacres at Babyn Yar ravine in Kyiv, Ukraine, January 27, 2025. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
September 29, 2025, 4:27 pm
84 years after Babyn Yar massacre, names of 1,000 previously unknown victims revealed
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
By Zev Stub
SABC presenter Juliet Newell (L) debates Mamphela Ramphele on South African television, August 2025. (Screenshots: YouTube, clause 27a of the copyright law)
September 2, 2025, 7:07 pm
South African interviewer fired for challenging comparison of Gaza war to Holocaust
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’
By Zev Stub
'Kindertransport' following Kristallnacht, when faith-based organizations in the UK lobbied for the entry of Jewish children as refugees. (public domain)
August 3, 2025, 7:49 am
UK historian defies experts, discovers unknown Kindertransport records deep in Yad Vashem
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
By Matt Lebovic
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