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Holocaust Remembrance Day

Screen captures from video of far-right Polish lawmaker Konrad Berkowicz holding up a paper Israeli flag with a swastika in the Polish parliament, April 14, 2026. (X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 14, 2026, 9:28 pm
In parliament, Polish MP calls Israel ‘new Third Reich,’ waves Israeli flag with swastika
Far-right Konrad Berkowicz prompts outrage from fellow lawmakers with display, as he accuses Israel of ‘genocide’ in Gaza; Israel embassy pans ‘antisemitic horror’
By Zev Stub and AFP
Shoes are displayed in Amsterdam's Dam Square in a pro-Palestinian exhibition, April 12, 2026. (Screenshot/YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 14, 2026, 6:41 pm
Gaza shoe display in Amsterdam appears to appropriate Holocaust imagery ahead of Yom Hashoah
Exhibit in Dam Square by pro-Palestinian nonprofit commemorates Palestinian children killed in Gaza war, drawing criticism
By Zev Stub
Catherine Szkop (left) and Abbie Talmoud, survivors of the terror attack at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, stands at the gate to Auschwitz on April 13, 2026. (Yossi Zeliger)
April 14, 2026, 5:03 pm
At Auschwitz, Diaspora Jews who lived through terror march alongside Holocaust survivors
In the deadliest year for Diaspora Jews in three decades, the March of the Living becomes a meeting place for those who experienced antisemitic persecution on three continents
By Lianne Kolirin
(L-R) Paul Giniewski, Shoshana Jansje Litten Serlui, Simha Kazik Rotem, and Ellen-Ellie Waterman (Photos courtesy of the families)
April 14, 2026, 4:35 pm
Jerusalem ceremony recognizes four Jews who rescued other Jews during Holocaust
B’nai B’rith-KKL-JNF citation honors heroes who endangered their own lives to save fellow community members in World War II
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
L-R: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference ahead of final votes on the 2026 state budget at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 29, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Israel's Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor addresses the Conference of Minister-Presidents, March 12, 2025 (Media Service Saxony); German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks to the media at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Monday, April 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
April 14, 2026, 1:52 pm
Israel’s ambassador to Germany assails Smotrich for attack on chancellor
In rare rebuke for a diplomat, Ron Prosor slams far-right minister for saying ‘you will not force us into ghettos again’ after Merz criticized Israel on Holocaust memorial day
By ToI Staff
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
Holocaust survivor Penina Zeitchik (center) made aliyah at age 86 on February 18, 2026, welcomed by her son, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. (Courtesy)
April 14, 2026, 12:56 am
Over 80 years after fleeing the Nazis, a survivor moves to Israel, finally home
On her first Holocaust Remembrance Day since realizing her dream of immigrating, Penina Zeitchik aims to gather with grandchildren also living in Israel to share what her family experienced in the war
By Rossella Tercatin
Author Aron Heller (courtesy) / Background: Mickey Heller (far left), Ralph Oren (second from right), and friends in front of a bomber plane. (Courtesy of the Heller family)
April 13, 2026, 11:44 pm
Aron Heller: 1.5 million-strong Jewish band of brothers
On Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, the author of ‘Zaidy’s Band’ speaks about the little-known brave Jewish servicemen who faced down the Nazis, fighting for their brethren
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Aron Heller
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
Holocaust survivor Tommy Shaham gives testimony during a Zikaron BaSalon living room commemoration in this undated photo. (Courtesy of Zikaron BaSalon)
April 13, 2026, 8:08 am
From generation to generation: Holocaust and Oct. 7 meet in intimate salon memorials
As the Zikaron BaSalon program grows to over 2 million participants worldwide, former hostages and their families learn from survivors how telling their stories can aid in rehabilitation
By Bernard Dichek
Portrait of Dov Landau, a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor, in his home in Tel Aviv, October 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 12, 2026, 4:36 pm
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, 111,000 survivors living in Israel
Over a quarter are older than 90, two-thirds are women; world Jewish population has still not recovered to numbers it had in 1933, according to Central Bureau of Statistics
By Stuart Winer
Participants with Israel's flag walk along a rail track leading to the gate of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Poland, during the annual March of The Living to honor the victims of the Holocaust on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
April 12, 2026, 1:24 pm
Despite war cancellations, Holocaust survivors from Israel to join March of the Living
Around a dozen survivors, aged 90-100, will travel to Poland though most Israeli delegates forced to cancel; march to be led by survivors of attacks on Jews; former hostages to light torch
By Stuart Winer
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
Students and their teachers from Berlin’s Refik Veseli School and Tirana’s Gjimnazi Sami Frashëri pose for a group shot in front of Albania’s Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2026. (Larry Luxner/ JTA)
April 7, 2026, 3:48 pm
In Albania, teens at German school discover tribal code of honor that saved Jews in WWII
Students at Refik Veseli Schule, named for an Albanian honored as Righteous Among the Nations, learn about ‘besa,’ a precept that mandates the protection of strangers fleeing persecution
By Larry Luxner
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