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Yom Hashoah

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
IMAGE: An IDF Merkava tank in southern Lebanon by the border with northern Israel on March 27, 2026 (Jalaa Marey/AFP)
April 14, 2026, 3:21 pm
Daily Briefing April 14 – Lebanon and Israel get talking, with shared goal to disarm Hezbollah
Tol editor David Horovitz discusses Holocaust Remembrance Day, Iranian negotiations, talks between Israel and Lebanon in Washington, and a landslide victory for new Hungarian PM
By Jessica Steinberg and David Horovitz
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announces that the live broadcast of this year’s event, under the theme ‘The Jewish Family During the Holocaust,’ has been replaced by a taped program, without giving a reason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
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
Michael Kuperstein (left), a Holocaust survivor and the grandfather of hostage Bar Kuperstein (right), in a TV interview in February 2024. (Kan news screenshot/Courtesy)
April 23, 2025, 7:50 pm
‘It’s a second Holocaust’: Survivor pleads for return of his hostage grandson
Michael Kuperstein, whose grandson Bar Kuperstein was kidnapped from the Nova festival, will march in Auschwitz as he waits desperately for Bar to be freed from Gaza captivity
By AFP and ToI Staff
Two young women who managed to survive over a year in concentration camp at Belsen, Germany, are shown, April 30, 1945. (AP Photo)
April 23, 2025, 4:11 pm
What Matters Now to Prof. Manuela Consonni: How women resisted the Nazis
Director of Hebrew University’s Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism delves into the little-known history of women’s Holocaust survival and resilience
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oswiecm, Poland receives about 1% of the 2.3 million visitors who come to the former death camp each year. (Courtesy of the Auschwitz Jewish Center via JTA)
April 16, 2025, 10:30 am
80 years after Auschwitz was liberated, kosher food returns to its town of Oswiecim
Auschwitz Jewish Center, housed in last remaining synagogue near site of Nazi death camp, will have kosher food available for visitors, starting ahead of Yom HaShoah this month
By Shira Li Bartov
From 'Heroines,' an exhibit about fashion design during wartime at the Holon Design Museum, from April 2025 (Credit Elad Sarig)
April 8, 2025, 7:07 am
Fashion exhibit looks at design as symbol of hope during World War II
Holon Design Museum launches ‘Heroines,’ a look at World War Two-era designers who leaned on fashion, as well as Holocaust items
By Jessica Steinberg
This image grab taken from footage released by the Israeli army on May 7, 2024, shows the 401st Brigade's combat team tanks entering the Gazan side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on May 7, 2024. (Fayez Nureldine/Israeli Army/AFP)
May 7, 2024, 1:29 pm
Daily Briefing May 7: Day 214 – Has the IDF crossed the Rubicon into Rafah?
Zman Yisrael editor Biranit Goren on the significance of the operation in Gaza’s southernmost city, even as hostage talks continue; Canaan Lidor reports from March of the Living
By ToI Staff
Crowd gathered in Martyrs Forest outside Jerusalem to honor Jewish rescuers during the Holocaust in a Yom Hashoah ceremony on May 6, 2024. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)
May 6, 2024, 9:11 pm
B’nai B’rith ceremony honors 13 who rescued other Jews from Nazi atrocities
Shadow of October 7 Hamas massacre looms over crowd gathered outside Jerusalem to commemorate Yom Hashoah in the pouring rain
By Charlie Summers
Hundreds of strangers attend the funeral of Holocaust survivor Esther Greizer in Haifa on May 6, 2024 (Screen grab via Channel 12 news)
May 6, 2024, 4:14 pm
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, hundreds of strangers attend funeral of Auschwitz survivor
Esther Greizer, 95, who died overnight and was laid to rest in Haifa, was unable to have children after being subjected to experiments as a child at the death camp
By ToI Staff
Palestinians hold leaflets dropped by Israeli planes calling on them to evacuate ahead of an Israeli military operation in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, May 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Ismael Abu Dayyah)
May 6, 2024, 12:48 pm
Daily Briefing May 6: Day 213 – War at a crossroads as IDF orders partial Rafah evacuation
Emanuel Fabian reports on a deadly Hamas rocket barrage from Rafah and IDF preparations for a ground operation; Lazar Berman on contentious hostage talks and the pace of the war
By ToI Staff
Hannah Gofrit, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor speaks to a crowd of people in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square at Holocaust Remembrance Day event on evening of May 5, 2024. (Courtesy of Hostages and Missing Families Forum/Paulina Patimer)
May 6, 2024, 4:17 am
Hostage families and Holocaust survivors vow ‘Never again’ while marking Yom Hashoah
‘Pain is pain, it doesn’t matter if I experienced it in Poland or now, on Oct. 7,’ Holocaust survivor Hannah Gofrit tells teary-eyed crowd of thousands at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square
By Charlie Summers
A visitor is seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on May 2, 2024, several days ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 6, 2024, 1:37 am
Study: Grief Israelis feel on Holocaust Remembrance Day can help ease political rifts
Hebrew University social psychologists find that periodic national days of mourning and commemoration can serve the important purpose of reducing ideological antagonism
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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