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Holocaust remembrance

Then-US ambassador to Germany Amy Gutmann touches the freshly laid 'Stolpersteine' (stumbling stones) for members of her family in Feuchtwangen, Bavaria, on May 30, 2023. (Thomas Kienzle/AFP)
September 25, 2026, 8:31 pm
German town bans new Holocaust-memory ‘stumbling blocks,’ with center and far-right support
Snubbing city administrators recommendation, Heidenau council votes to reject future installations of brass plaques commemorating Nazi victims
By Emanuele Berro and Friederike Heine
A man casts his vote at a polling station during the Berlin state election in Berlin, Germany, September 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
September 20, 2026, 12:53 pm
Eyes on far-right AfD, far-left Berlin candidate as Germans vote in two state elections
AfD seen as unlikely to win either of Sunday’s elections, but expected to make gains in latest challenge to leader Friedrich Merz; far-left Eralp leading in Berlin mayoral poll
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Top candidate Ulrich Siegmund shows thumbs up beside his wife Julia, left, and party leaders Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel, right, at an election party of the “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) after the Saxony-Anhalt state elections in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, September 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
September 12, 2026, 9:59 am
Germany’s AfD seeking to parlay Saxony-Anhalt win into nationwide momentum
Far-right party faces tests in Berlin and elsewhere as it attempts to turn eastern breakthrough into broader trend, but results likely to be weaker in west
By Shira Li Bartov
A man holds up a placard reading “FCK AFD” as he gathers with others in front of Saxony-Anhalt’s state parliament to demonstrate for an open society based on solidarity during a festival of democracy in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, on September 5, 2026, one day before regional elections in the eastern federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. (John MACDOUGALL/AFP)
September 8, 2026, 6:53 pm
‘Immense damage’: German Jewish leaders alarmed by election win of far-right AfD
Alternative for Germany’s plurality in Saxony-Anhalt election leads some of nation’s 200,000 Jews to fear throwback to fascism, amid backlash against culture of Holocaust memory
By Toby Axelrod
This photo taken on August 22, 2026 shows the construction site of a business park at the site of what was once a Nazi forced labour complex in Leobersdorf, Austria. (Jure Cufer/AFP)
August 28, 2026, 11:41 am
Plans for business park atop site of former Nazi labor camp sparks anger in Austria
Activists oppose construction on grounds of Mauthausen concentration camp and Hirtenberg women’s subcamp; supermarket chain Lidl says planned store will sit on adjacent land
By Femke COLBORNE
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
Renee Albersheim was murdered during the Holocaust. A Jewish couple in Florida has said the Mourner's Kaddish for her daily for years. (Courtesy Susan Bell via JTA)
April 14, 2026, 6:12 pm
With no one to say Kaddish for many children killed in the Holocaust, a US synagogue steps up
Dozens of families at Temple Beth El in West Palm Beach have ‘adopted’ child victims to memorialize as their own, in a form of remembrance some laud for its continuity
By Stewart Ain
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
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
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
Cyclist Lukáš Klement's 1,000-kilometer (621-mile) bike route in Poland spells the words "Never again" (Zaka Search and Rescue)
January 20, 2026, 2:20 pm
Cyclist completes 47-hour trek to write ‘Never Again’ around Auschwitz
Czech cyclist Lukáš Klement rides through snow, winds and freezing temperatures for 1,000 kilometers to create his message ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day next week
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
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L), speaks on the Patrick Bet-David podcast about the Armenian genocide, August 27, 2025 (screenshot/X)
August 27, 2025, 3:15 am
In first, Netanyahu says he recognizes Armenian genocide
Israel has long avoided officially recognizing Ottoman slaughter of Christians during WWI, though PM seems to signal change in stance as ties with Turkey continue to deteriorate
By Lazar Berman
Rafal Trzaskowski, Warsaw's Mayor and member of ruling centrist Civic Coalition party, flashes a V for victory sign as he greets supporters as exit polls were announced on tv during their election night event at the the National Museum of Ethnography in Warsaw, Poland, during the second round of the presidential elections on June 1, 2025. (Sergei GAPON / AFP)
June 1, 2025, 11:56 pm
Liberal mayor, anti-EU Holocaust revisionist both claim victory in Poland election
Exit poll shows government-favored centrist Rafal Trzaskowski just ahead of right-wing historian Karol Nawrocki, who is backed by populist Law and Justice, but results could change
By Agencies
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