On Yom HaShoah, the country unites in a powerful moment of silence and in ceremonies such as “Lechol Ish Yesh Shem” (לכל איש יש שם, “Every Person Has a Name”) to remember the Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
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“After the Holocaust, we knew that we could never again leave it in other people’s hands to protect us because no one was going to.”
Gad Fartouk, 93, prays for 59 hostages in Gaza before lighting a torch at Israel’s Holocaust memorial ceremony marking 80 years since Nazi defeat.
Marking 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, Israel’s head of state will join Holocaust survivors, former Hamas hostages, and other participants in the annual March of the Living.
“The presence of ambassadors from around the world today is a powerful reminder that the victims’ memories live on,” stated Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.
Israel’s Prime Minister pays tribute to the life stories of Holocaust survivors as a testimony of national rebirth – the opening of the central memorial ceremony in Jerusalem.
Antisemitism adapts to its surroundings, shifts its language and moves from theology to ideology.
A directorial debut, “Unbroken,” which chronicles a filmmaker’s search of her family’s history, starts streaming this week on Netflix, timed to Yom Hashoah.
Middle East expert and Israel Today commentator Edy Cohen on Holocaust denial as a political tool – and the conspiracy theories that still fuel it in the Arab world.
A new report by the Claims Conference warns: By 2035, only 66,250 Holocaust survivors will still be alive.
