Holocaust survivors

Europian Jews who surviced the Holocaust.

Post-Boulder attack, it's time to suffocate antisemitism from its deep infectious roots - editorial

Protecting Jews’ right to walk, pray, and speak without fear is not a favor to one minority; it is a test of America’s democratic spine.

 An Israeli flag is placed near police tape, after an attack that injured multiple people, in Boulder, Colorado, US June 1, 2025.
TEACHER AND Zionist youth movement leader Fredy Hirsch, who ran the children’s block in Auschwitz-Birkenau

German Jewish educator who saved children from Holocaust to be subject of animated documentary

 Holocaust survivor Helena Weinstock Weinrauch, who wore the same hand-knit sweater to the first Passover seder every year for the past 75 years, has died at 100.

Helena Weinrauch, Holocaust survivor and ‘dancing angel,’ dies at 100

 (illustrative) Polish-born Holocaust survivor Meyer Hack shows his prisoner number tattooed on his arm. (Hack is unrelated to the contents of this article)

Proposed tax on foreign donations alarms NGOs aiding Holocaust survivors


Around the world, the ‘Day of Liberation and Rescue’ was marked

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Grapevine, May 25, 2025: Resilience in the face of racism

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

L-R) DANNA AZRIELI, Yeshayahu Menat, and Galit Gal

'Heartbreaking full circle': Holocaust survivor dies two weeks after IDF soldier grandson

“Magda devoted her life to preserving the memory of the Holocaust and sharing her remarkable life story with future generations,” said Raz Kinstlich, mayor of Rishon Lezion.

 Magda Baratz and Asaf Cafri.

Knesset c'mtee discusses scam stealing millions from elderly, Holocaust survivors

The fraud, committed largely via telephone, particularly targeted Israel's Russian-speaking community, with scammers speaking in Russian.

 Woman holding credit card, giving details over the phone; illustrative

Margot Friedlander, German Holocaust survivor who landed a Vogue cover, dies at 103

The Margot Friedlander Foundation announced her death on Friday, just weeks after opening applications for a 25,000 euro prize to recognize efforts to fight antisemitism and promote democracy.

Margot Friedländer, Holocaust survivor and honorary citizen of Berlin, participates in Berlin's event commemorating the end of World War II, May 7, 2025. (Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa

VE Day in Israel: Celebrating the 80th anniversary and Jewish heroes of the war

The State of Israel also commemorates VE Day on May 9 largely as a result of the massive wave of immigration from the former Soviet bloc during the 1990s.

Veterans march through Jerusalem to mark WW2 Victory in Europe Day.

'The Right to Happiness': Moving fiction about Holocaust survivors - review

While they are firmly grounded in the hearts and souls of the survivors and their families, these tales tell a universal story of love and loss that will appeal to any reader.

 A MEMORIAL to Janusz Korczak and the orphans he stayed with until their very last moments, created by Boris Saktsier, at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem.

Israel's oldest survivor passes away on Holocaust Remembrance Day at age 110

Her son said his mother had lived through the worst of humanity and survived, raising her children with the message that hatred cannot win.

Nechama Grossman

Zikaron Basalon transforms the stories of Holocaust survivors into living memory - opinion

The intimate gathering, the conversation, the questions – all of these create a memory that is not just a ceremony, but a human experience connecting past, present, and future.

 President Isaac Herzog hosts Ines Nissim, a Holocaust survivor, as part of the Zikaron Basalon series, April 25, 2022.

Honoring Holocaust survivors: A call to remember the living and their legacy - opinion

This Holocaust Remembrance Day, we must remember not only the six million lost but also the survivors who lived to share their stories, resilience, and wisdom.

 THIS HOLOCAUST Remembrance Day, I want to reflect not just on those we lost, but on those who lived – who survived – and who gave my life new meaning, says the writer.

How a daring Holocaust-era decision can serve as a precedent for haredim today - opinion

Uncovering the Theresienstadt rescue train—a little-known escape from Nazi occupation that brought 1,210 Jewish prisoners to freedom.

Second generation to Holocaust survivor light a remembrance candle at the camp