International Holocaust Remembrance Day

US Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, right, speaks with 101-year-old Margot Friedländer, center, during a meeting with Holocaust survivors in Berlin, January 31, 2023. (US Embassy Berlin)

February 1, 2023, 11:01 am

Doug Emhoff’s trip to Poland and Germany brings him back to Jewish ancestral roots

US second gentleman describes meeting Holocaust survivors who recently fled war in Ukraine as ’emotional and intense,’ recalls his own grandparents’ flight to safety in America

By Toby Axelrod

A genealogy testing kit for Ancestry/DNA is displayed in the Ackman and Ziff Family Genealogy Institute research area at the Center for Jewish History (CJH), November 29, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

January 31, 2023, 10:21 pm

Ancestry.com donates 2,500 DNA kits to help Holocaust survivors find relatives

World’s largest genealogy company gives tests to the newly launched DNA Reunion Project, a Center for Jewish History initiative seeking to unite families shattered by the genocide

By Yaakov Schwartz

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to the press at Jerusalem's Shaare Tzedek hospital on January 28, 2023 (Courtesy Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

January 29, 2023, 1:42 pm

Daily Briefing Jan. 29: Friday night terror attack tests national security minister

Political analyst Haviv Rettig Gur discusses Israeli and Palestinian responses to a multiple-fatality shooting as diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman looks at world condemnation

By ToI Staff

2023 Obermayer prizewinners (left to right) Ruth-Anne Damm, Nina Taubenreuther and Sarah Hüttenberend, honored for their organization Zweitzeugen, which means 'second witness' in German and teaches young people the life stories of Holocaust survivors so they can share them with others. (Courtesy of Widen the Circle)

January 28, 2023, 12:00 am

In Germany, an American family honors locals working to preserve Jewish memory

Marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, Germans are presented with the Obermayer Award for projects like restoring landmarks and coming up with creative Holocaust youth education

By Toby Axelrod

Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff (R), delivers remarks during a roundtable about the rise of antisemitism with Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt (L) in Washington, DC, December 7, 2022. White House Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice sits between them. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, via JTA)

January 27, 2023, 11:15 am

We’re visiting Auschwitz because ugly antisemitism is acceptable again

We must condemn antisemites and call out those who do not, for silence in the face of this evil allows the malicious hatred to grow

By Douglas Emhoff and Deborah Lipstadt

Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev holds his mother's yellow star at the former Theresienstadt ghetto-concentration camp, pictured on January 24, 2023. (Courtesy European Jewish Association)

January 27, 2023, 6:45 am

At concentration camp once used for Nazi propaganda, European Jews fight ‘fake news’

Ahead of the January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an EJA delegation gathers at Theresienstadt to honor the victims and stop the spread of antisemitic misinformation

By Yaakov Schwartz

'Holocaust Namenmonument' founder Jacques Grishaver at the memorial, Amsterdam, December 27, 2022 (Matt Lebovic/Times of Israel)

January 27, 2023, 5:29 am

Dutch Holocaust survivor, memorial founder Jacques Grishaver to address UN

Founder of acclaimed ‘Namenmonument’ in Amsterdam will deliver remarks for International Holocaust Remembrance Day in New York on January 27

By Matt Lebovic

President Isaac Herzog addresses Europe's parliament in Brussels, in a session marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 26, 2023 (Haim Zach/GPO)

January 26, 2023, 1:45 pm

Herzog says Israel committed to ‘equality,’ as EU parliament leader sounds warning

President delivers speech in Brussels ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day as bitter political fight brews at home; Metsola cautions that democratic values can’t be taken for granted

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative: Jewish people visit the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp after the March of the Living annual observance, in Oswiecim, Poland, April 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

January 25, 2023, 9:46 pm

Auschwitz museum: Russia not invited to event marking camp’s liberation by Red Army

Director of site says Moscow ‘will need an extremely long time and very deep self-examination’ before it could possibly return to attending ‘gatherings of the civilized world’

By AFP

A woman looks through the Book of Names at UN Headquarters in New York, January 24, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

January 25, 2023, 10:01 am

‘Book of Names’ listing all known Holocaust victims put on display at United Nations

Yad Vashem installation marking Holocaust remembrance day contains personal information of 4.8 million people killed by Nazis, blank pages symbolizing another 1.2 million

By Luke Tress

President Isaac Herzog (R) and Philippe, King of the Belgians, walk into the king's private office in the Royal Palace of Brussels, January 25, 2023 (Haim Zach/GPO)

January 25, 2023, 6:14 am

Herzog welcomed by Belgian king ahead of meetings with EU, NATO chiefs

President pays visit to Jewish school at start of two-day trip in which he will discuss Iran threat, Israeli captives in Gaza, and give major Holocaust address to EU parliament

By Lazar Berman

Members of the Auburn Tigers tour the Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem on August 3, 2022 (Courtesy/MFA)

January 24, 2023, 5:50 pm

Most Americans lack some basic knowledge about Holocaust — poll

AJC survey finds just 53% know 6 million Jews were killed, and more than one in three think Hitler came to power in a violent coup, highlighting gaps in Shoah education

By ToI Staff

Union Station in Washington DC defaced with swastikas on January 28, 2022. (Sheila Katz/Twitter)

January 28, 2022, 9:47 pm

Swastikas drawn on Washington train station after Holocaust memorial day

‘Sickening’: Local law enforcement opens investigation into antisemitic graffiti as Jewish groups, senator issue condemnations

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan (Alex Kolomoisky/Yad Vashem)

January 28, 2022, 1:30 pm

Podcast: New Yad Vashem head on why Holocaust distortion has overtaken denial

In a conversation days after Colleyville synagogue attack, Dani Dayan speaks about Holocaust education as a way of mitigating antisemitism and how his institution can take the lead

By ToI Staff

One World Trade Center in New York City is lit up in yellow to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2022. (Courtesy/World Jewish Congress)

January 28, 2022, 2:05 am

New York lights Niagara Falls, other sites yellow for Holocaust memorial

‘We remember the millions murdered’: State leaders commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, as hate crimes remain high and awareness of genocide drops in US

By Luke Tress