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Holocaust memorials

A rendering of the Holocaust memorial planned for Charlotte, North Carolina, features an evocation of the trains that carried Jews to Nazi death camps and an image of the entrance to Auschwitz. (Courtesy Circle of Humanity via JTA)
June 29, 2026, 4:19 am
In North Carolina, a memorial project will honor Martin Luther King and Holocaust victims
Organizers of Charlotte’s Circle of Humanity say plaza will be first-of-its-kind space for Shoah remembrance, civil rights education and Black-Jewish dialogue
By Andrea Cooper
People attend the commemoration to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp at the camp's memorial site in Buchenwald, near Weimar, eastern Germany, on April 6, 2025. (JENS SCHLUETER / AFP / File)
April 14, 2026, 3:58 am
How an oath by Buchenwald survivors is being used to fuel anti-Israel protests
As the pro-Palestinian group ‘Kufiyas in Buchenwald’ is blocked from demonstrating outside the notorious Nazi concentration camp ahead of Yom Hashoah, a debate about the site’s history resurfaces
By Shira Li Bartov
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
The "Wall of the Righteous" (Mur des Justes) outside the Shoah Memorial in Paris, France, is vandalized with red-hands graffiti, May 14, 2024. (Antonin Utz / AFP)
November 1, 2025, 2:17 am
French court sentences 4 Bulgarians to jail for defacing Holocaust memorial
Judges say the vandalism, which occurred amid post-Oct. 7 antisemitism surge, was meant to ‘stir up public opinion, exploit existing divisions and further fragment French society’
By AFP
The "Wall of the Righteous" (Mur des Justes) outside the Shoah Memorial in Paris, France, is vandalized with red-hands graffiti, May 14, 2024. (Antonin Utz / AFP)
October 30, 2025, 9:17 am
Three Bulgarians go on trial for painting red hands at Paris Holocaust Memorial
French intelligence says vandalism part of Russian campaign to destabilize Western society; one suspect says he did not understand antisemitic nature of graffiti and apologizes
By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY
A Holocaust memorial in Lyon was defaced with a "Free Gaza" inscription on August 30, 2025 (CRIF)
August 31, 2025, 3:10 pm
French Holocaust memorial defaced with ‘Free Gaza’ inscription
Lyon mayor vows to locate and prosecute perpetrators, declares opposition to antisemitism and hatred; Israel accuses France of repeatedly failing to crack down on antisemitism
By AFP and Lazar Berman
Screen capture from video of Willy-Brandt-Platz in the German town of Baden-Baden, seen in 2013. (YouTube: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 7, 2025, 12:28 pm
Holocaust memorial toppled in German town of Baden-Baden
Vandals topple stone column in what police say was deliberate, political act; city vows to restore stonework; Jewish community warns antisemitism crossing from slogans to violence
By ToI Staff
Green paint that was thrown on the walls of the Agoudas Hakehilos synagogue in Paris on May 31, 2025. (Thibaud Moritz/AFP)
May 31, 2025, 7:21 pm
Holocaust memorial, two synagogues in Paris vandalized with green paint
French politicians condemn acts; interior minister has called for heightened surveillance for Jewish community ahead of Shavuot holiday
By AFP and ToI Staff
Representatives of the Jewish community lay flowers at the monument commemorating victims of a World War II concentration camp in Jasenovac, Croatia, April 22, 2025. (AP)
April 22, 2025, 11:19 pm
Croatia commemorates victims of notorious Jasenovac WWII concentration camp
After years of boycotts, representatives of Serb, Jewish, Roma and antifascist organizations attend ceremonies marking 80 years since attempted uprising among prisoners
By Eldar Emric
Ireland's President Michael D. Higgins speaking at the state Holocaust memorial ceremony in Dublin, Ireland, January 26, 2025. (Screenshot from X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 27, 2025, 11:57 pm
Irish president’s Holocaust memorial speech sparks anger from country’s Jews
Michael Higgins’s address highlighted Gaza war, which country’s chief rabbi decries as an attempt to ‘politicize’ the memorial ceremony
By AFP
Irish President Michael D. Higgins speaks at the National Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration at the Mansion House in Dublin, January 26, 2025. (President of Ireland/X)
January 27, 2025, 12:55 am
In Holocaust Day speech, Irish president decries ‘horrific loss of life’ in Gaza, sparks protest
Jewish community had asked Higgins not to politicize event; protesters turn their backs on Irish president, at least one person forcibly removed from event
By Amy Spiro and ToI Staff
The Umschlagplatz Memorial, in Warsaw, Poland, on April 12, 2023. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP / File)
January 7, 2025, 8:27 pm
‘Warsaw 1943 = Gaza 2025’: Holocaust memorial vandalized in Polish capital
Israel envoy denounces graffiti as ‘shameful vandalism,’ calls on Poland to hold perpetrators accountable for crime
By ToI Staff
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers remarks at the Holocaust Educational Trust's annual appeal dinner, Sep. 16, 2024. (Screenshot via YouTube/via JTA)
September 20, 2024, 7:44 am
UK’s Starmer pledges to build Holocaust memorial, mandate Holocaust education
Citing antisemitism spike post-Oct. 7, British PM pledges to build long-awaited memorial next to parliament ‘proudly, unapologetically’; says he will visit Auschwitz
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Fred Kormis in his studio in the 1980s. (Courtesy: Wiener Holocaust Library Collections via JTA)
September 10, 2024, 7:49 pm
The overlooked artist who escaped the Nazis and made the 1st UK memorial to their victims
A new display at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library follows the upheaval that plagued the life of little-known sculptor Fred Kormis, who focused on memorializing humans in captivity
By Shira Li Bartov
The 'Block of Women' monument in central Berlin commemorates the non-Jewish women who in 1943 publicly protested against the Nazis when their Jewish husbands and fathers were set to be deported. (Wikimedia via JTA)
August 30, 2024, 3:50 am
Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized with antisemitic, pro-Palestinian graffiti
‘Block of Women’ monument, commemorating non-Jewish women who protested against Nazis, is daubed with ‘Jews are committing genocide,’ ‘Free Palestine’ and Palestinian flag
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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