Each year, Israel observes two somber days of remembrance within a week, followed by Independence Day celebrations throughout the country. The connection is profound.
As we mark yet another year that has passed since the liberation of the camps, the question is often asked: If the murdered could have one request fulfilled, what would it be?
Who could have imagined just a year ago that Yom Hashoah, one of the saddest days on the Jewish calendar, would be observed in Dubai? By United with Israel Staff United with Israel witnessed a historic tribute to the six million Jewish victims of Holocaust. It was the first time ever that a Yom Hashoah… Read more »
Growing up, every day was Holocaust Remembrance day for the daughter of two survivors. Now she beams with pride, living in Israel as her family continues to grow.
Religious IDF soldiers took a break from assembling food packages for needy families during the corona crisis to pay tribute to survivors of the Shoah on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.
With the global coronavirus pandemic threatening populations around the world, Israelis found innovative ways to honor its aging population of survivors on the country’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. By Associated Press Some Holocaust survivors say the current coronavirus isolation and sense of danger has triggered difficult memories linked with their wartime experiences. Others bristle at… Read more »
‘We must remember each person as an individual who had a family, a profession and a community, to focus on the way they lived full lives, not just how they perished,’ said the founder of the initiative.
‘With face-to-face encounters put on hold for now, it is even more important to listen to Holocaust survivors sitting alone in their homes,’ said isaac Herzog.
‘May the memories of Petr Ginz, astronaut Ilan Ramon and the six million victims of the Holocaust always remain in our thoughts,’ said US Astronaut Andrew Feustel in Space.
‘You couldn’t really fight the German army, given our means, but we did our best to disrupt them,’ recalled Baruch Shub, who fought the Nazis during the Holocaust.
‘In the Holocaust we were helpless, defenseless and voiceless,’ Netanyahu said. ‘Today, we have a strong country, a strong army, and our voice is heard among the nations.’
Each year, Israelis pause from their routines to ponder the fate of the six millions Jews who perished in the Holocaust, vowing to never again allow such an atrocity to occur.
An annual Yom Hashoah event held in Martyr’s Forest, will this year pay tribute to Rabbi Moshe Shimon Pessach, a rabbinic and communal leader in Greece whose efforts saved the Jewish community of Volos.
Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah in Hebrew) is a national day of commemoration in Israel, on which the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust are memorialized.
Six hundred survivors gathered together to sing ‘Chai,’ made famous by legendary Israeli artist Ofra Haza, ahead of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Asked to choose between Netanyahu and anti-Israel NGOs that call IDF soldiers “war criminals,” German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel chose to meet with the latter.
Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, stressed the significance of personal remembrance and survivor testimony at the annual Yom Hashoah ceremony.
The lesson to be learned from the Holocaust and the Allies’ indifference to the plight of Europe’s Jewish victims is that Israel can rely only on itself for survival.
The world is ignoring the looming threats of evil and tyranny and the hard-learned lessons of the Holocaust, Netanyahu warned on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
An annual Yom Hashoah event held in Martyr's Forest, will this year pay tribute to Rabbi Moshe Shimon Pessach, a rabbinic and communal leader in Greece whose efforts saved the Jewish community of Volos.
Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah in Hebrew) is a national day of commemoration in Israel, on which the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust are memorialized.
Would you be willing to put your own children at risk to save a Jew? Not so simple. On an individual level it is very difficult to answer this question.