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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 652

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Asher Wolach holds a memorial photo of Rabbi Avi Goldberg, April 2025. (Gal Aharonovich/ International Fellowship of Christians and Jews)
April 30, 2025, 4:21 pm
In tearful reversal, Holocaust survivors mourn beloved IDF soldiers killed since Oct. 7
As Israelis commemorate those lost in the Shoah as well as fallen troops and terror victims, the elderly grieve for young volunteers who visited them, felled over 19 months of war
By Deborah Danan
Leslie Gelrubin Benitah, right, with her late grandmother Bajla Gelrubin on her 100th birthday. (Courtesy)
April 26, 2025, 6:00 am
Geolocated app connects Auschwitz visitors with survivors’ testimonies on horrors in camp
Titled The Last Ones, the application utilizes short interviews with Holocaust survivors to illuminate Nazi murders and torments — at camps and throughout Europe
By Rich Tenorio
An undated image of Nechama Grossman, a Holocaust survivor who passed away at age 110 on April 24, 2025. (Courtesy)
April 25, 2025, 4:28 pm
Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivor Nechama Grossman dies on Remembrance Day, aged 109
Her son urges people to ‘remember her survival, so that her past never becomes our future’; Holocaust survivor and educator Eve Kugler, 94, also dies on Remembrance Day
By ToI Staff
Rita Krasimow, left, the runner-up in the 2018 Miss Holocaust survivor beauty pageant, and one of the main protagonists in "Miss Holocaust Survivor," sits with film director Radek Wegrzyn at the screening of the film in Haifa on April 22, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
April 25, 2025, 4:53 am
At Israeli premiere, ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’ director struts celebration of life
Holocaust survivors who star in award-winning documentary about controversial pageant attend Haifa screening with Polish-born filmmaker; movie set for worldwide release in January
By Diana Bletter
Hod Hasharon Mayor Amir Kochavi speaks at the city's ceremony for the onset of Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 23, 2025. (Screen capture via Facebook)
April 24, 2025, 7:36 pm
Mayor sparks uproar with Holocaust day speech condemning ‘lust for revenge’ in Gaza
Hod Hasharon Mayor Amir Kochavi says Israelis must not be silent, even against atrocities ‘carried out in our name,’ amid call for hostages’ return
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
People stand still in Jerusalem as a two-minute siren is sounded across Israel to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 24, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 24, 2025, 5:05 pm
Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day under shadow of ongoing Gaza hostage crisis
Two-minute siren brings country to a halt; wreaths laid at Yad Vashem; names of Nazis’ victims read at Knesset, March of Living held at Auschwitz; plight of captives constant theme
By ToI Staff and Jessica Steinberg
Oliver Jackson-Cohen as Solomon Wiener, left, and Jeremy Neumark Jones as Michael Podchlebnik in 'The World Will Tremble' by Israeli director Lior Geller. (Courtesy)
April 24, 2025, 4:25 pm
New film shows how escapees from 1st Nazi death camp revealed Final Solution to the world
Screening in NY to mark Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, director Lior Geller’s ‘The World Will Tremble’ tells true story of daring revelation of plan to exterminate world Jewry
By Rich Tenorio
US President Donald Trump speaks to the media after signing executive orders relating to higher education institutions in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 23, 2025. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
April 24, 2025, 2:41 pm
‘Never again means now’: Trump marks Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day
In statement mostly focusing on rise of antisemitism post-Oct. 7, US president says it ‘has no place in a civilized society,’ commits to ‘swiftly punishing’ violators
By ToI Staff
Holocaust survivor Suzanne Rosenberg, far left, looks in the Book of Names at Block 27 at Auschwitz to find her uncle's name on April 23, 2025 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
April 24, 2025, 2:11 am
Hostage families join Holocaust survivors ahead of 2nd Auschwitz march since Oct. 7
10 former captives and survivors of Oct. 7 onslaught among 8,000 participants who tour Holocaust death camp ahead of Thursday’s annual March of the Living
By Jessica Steinberg
President Isaac Herzog speaks at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 23, 2025 (Yad Vashem)
April 23, 2025, 11:54 pm
Herzog at Yad Vashem: ‘History won’t forgive those destroying Israel from within’
‘Let us lower the flames, mend our hearts,’ urges president at state Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony; PM says Hamas is ‘exactly like the Nazis’, vows to destroy it, return all hostages, thwart Iran nukes
By Zev Stub
Tzili Wenkert, a Holocaust survivor and the grandmother of Omer Wenkert who is held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, attends an event at 'Hostages Square' in Tel Aviv on October 28, 2023 (Gili Yaari /FLASH90)
April 23, 2025, 8:08 pm
Holocaust Remembrance Day marked by painful echoes amid Gaza hostage crisis
As Israel commemorates 80 years since Auschwitz’s liberation, survivors and hostage families highlight haunting resonance after October 7 and given captives’ ongoing plight
By Stav Levaton
Filmmaker Yoav Potash filming Aaron Friedman Tartakovksy, whose family came from Gniewoszów, Poland, the central element in 'Among Neighbors,' Potash's documentary about a Polish town, screened in Israel for Holocaust Remembrance Day, starting April 23, 2025 (Courtesy)
April 22, 2025, 10:56 am
Documentary digs up story of Polish village that butchered its Jews after Holocaust ended
It took filmmaker Yoav Potash 10 years to describe the events of once peacefully coexisting Gniewoszów, with the help of residents, survivors and a team of animators
By Jessica Steinberg
People visit the Nazi Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Oranienburg, Germany, January 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
April 22, 2025, 6:00 am
Report projects fewer than 100,000 living Holocaust survivors by 2032
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Claims Conference predicts that only about 20,000 eyewitnesses to the murder of six million Jews will remain worldwide by 2040
By Zev Stub
Freed hostage Agam Berger plays a violin that once belonged to a Jewish musician who was murdered in the Holocaust, March 8, 2025. (Screen capture: Ynet, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 11, 2025, 8:38 am
Ex-hostage Agam Berger will perform at Auschwitz during March of the Living
Former captives and their families, alongside relatives of current hostages and Oct. 7 victims, set to join 80 Holocaust survivors, marking 80 years since end of World War II
By Jessica Steinberg
Lilly Filler (center), chair of the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust, accepts a state proclamation from Governor Henry McMaster recognizing the Holocaust during an event commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, January 27, 2025, in Columbia, South Carolina. Filler would later cut a speech by a rabbi from the broadcast. (Screenshot via YouTube/ via JTA)
February 4, 2025, 4:59 pm
South Carolina Holocaust council roils after chair truncates rabbi’s ‘political’ remarks
At least one member resigns when part of a speech attacking contemporary policies – including book bans and denying aid to refugees – is cut from a TV broadcast of a memorial event
By Andrew Lapin
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