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In a recent interview with Kommersant newspaper, Halperin harshly criticized Russia's stance towards Hamas since the attack of October 7, and accused Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov of 'downplaying' the Holocaust

Tal Kantor hoped to visit Hollywood to promote her animated short film 'Letter to a Pig' in October, but the Gaza war changed everything – including how people respond to her touching, Oscar-nominated work about a Holocaust survivor and the power of compassion and empathy

1,894 Holocaust survivors, including 554 from communities near the Gaza border, were evacuated from homes when Hamas launched its brutal attacks on Israeli communities

I'm the son of Holocaust survivors, the father of a hostage held in Gaza and an historian. I fear invoking the Holocaust absolves our own Israeli government for its failures that "Black Saturday" – the day everything designed to protect us collapsed

As educators confront the emotional and psychological difficulties of teaching about the experience of Jews during the Holocaust in the aftermath of Oct 7, Israeli education minister says no final decision has been made

A protestor interrupted a Holocaust remembrance event in S.F., a 'vivid example of the rise of antisemitism and hate.' Speakers addressed the need for Holocaust education to combat hate following the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre

The de-Judaization and universalization of the Holocaust inevitably meant that it would later become a stick to beat up Jews themselves. Not that those who describe October 7 as 'another Holocaust' are much better

The horrors of the Holocaust played out far from India, but the lack of awareness today is playing out in bizarre ways in popular films, newspapers and even dating sites at a time when Hindu-Muslim tensions makes its lessons more urgent than ever

  A new Claims Conference demographic report on Holocaust survivors around the world shows that there are currently only about 245,000 Holocaust survivors alive. According to the first-of-its-kind report, they are dispersed into more than 90 countries around the world, with 49% residing in Israel. The report, published ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day this […]

In response to a letter by 50 Holocaust academics, Dani Dayan said the academics failed to address the larger context of the matter and that most Israelis, and the Israeli army, do not support such calls

The vandalism was "very, very upsetting, but not shocking for our community,' said the executive director of the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation. The memorial, perhaps the oldest public Holocaust monument in the U.S.

The 'incitement to extermination' heard in the words of Israeli officials and personalities 'can reach the stage of genocide,' the researches say. They're calling on Yad Vashem to learn from the lessons of the Holocaust

  A Torah scroll hidden in the attic of a synagogue in Poland that was burned down on Kristallnacht was to be placed in the Holy Ark at Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust remembrance center on Thursday as part of an event marking the General Kaddish Day held by the Council of the Chief Rabbinate […]

Viviers is a charming medieval town with typical narrow, winding cobblestoned streets situated along the right bank of the Rhone River. But this small French town has a hidden Holocaust story.

The grandparents of Israeli soldier Urija Bayer, 20, from Ma'alot-Tarshiha, established a nursing home for Holocaust survivors in northern Israel in 1984

Holocaust survivor Manya Wallenfels said, “I think twice before I wear my Star of David. I am afraid to go to the synagogue."