Yad Vashem

Israel to mark Holocaust remembrance, but ceremonies disrupted by Iran war

Despite a pause in Iranian missile salvos against Israel and a relaxation of Home Front safety regulations, Yad Vashem on Sunday confirmed that there would still be no live ceremony.

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Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on April 12, 2026, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day.
THIS YEAR’S eight survivors carry within them an enormous sweep of Jewish history: ghettos, pits, forests, camps, cattle cars, shootings, hiding places, and then, after all that, lives rebuilt in Israel. Here, President Isaac Herzog stands beside the memorial torch at Yad Vashem.

Lighting the torch: The survivors at the heart of Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony

HOLOCAUST AFFAIRS: This year, eight survivors will take part in key roles in the state ceremony on Monday evening at 8 p.m.

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(L-R): MEIR HIRSCHFELD, 1936. IDIT PAPA, 1942

Letters of love and survival: A Holocaust love story preserved at Yad Vashem

A young Orthodox couple in Hungary exchanged messages that sustained them through forced labor, ghettos, brazen escapes, and months in hiding.

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‘SHOAH’ BY Claude Lanzmann.

Streaming services unveil Holocaust Memorial Day 2026 programming

A highlight of this programming will be a new HOT edition of Zikaron BaSalon (Hebrew for “Remembrance in the Living Room”), an intimate project in which Holocaust survivors recount their stories.

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Holocaust Remembrance Day: Six stories of survival, resilience

The heart-wrenching Holocaust stories of Pnina Hefer, Allegra Gutta, Arie Eitani, Raisa Brodsky, Michael Bar-On, and Izi Kabilio.

MAY 3, 2024BySIMMY ALLEN
A SURVIVOR lights a torch at Yad Vashem on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021.

Grapevine, May 2, 2024: Heroes and heroines

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

MAY 3, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Israeli soldiers look up at pictures of victims of the Holocaust at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial centre, ahead of the Holocaust Remembrance Day starting this evening, at the Hall of Names, in Jerusalem April 27, 2022.

UK officials cover London Holocaust memorial over vandalization fears

The Holocaust memorial in Hyde Park, London, was covered by officials in fear that it might be vandalized by pro-Palestinian protesters.

APRIL 28, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A woman and a child stand next to the Holocaust memorial in Hyde Park, covered by a tarpaulin, on the day of a march in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in London, April 27, 2024.

Yad Vashem Chairman to Columbia president: 'The time has come for you to take a stand'

Dayan implored Dr. Shafik to “lead with moral principles, not only with administrative regulations. Speak up.”

APRIL 27, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
DANI DAYAN at Yad Vashem – caught in a cross fire.

President Herzog gifts Babylonian Talmud that survived the Holocaust to Yad Vashem

The Talmud had been entrusted to Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog in 1946, while he was recovering Jewish children hiding in non-Jewish homes and monastries.

APRIL 17, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Babylonian Talmud that survived the Holocaust gifted to Yad Vashem by President Herzog, April 17, 2024.

Grapevine March 31, 2024: An emotional visit

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

MARCH 31, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
YEHUDIT RAVITZ performs at the jubilee ceremony of the IDF Disabled Veterans Organization, in 2000, in Tel Aviv.

Handmade Purim noisemaker from Holocaust transit camp donated to Yad Vashem

The grogger belonged to the late Marcel Micenmacher, who survived the Holocaust with few other objects to serve as mementos from his parents, who were murdered at Auschwitz in 1942. 

MARCH 22, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Purim noisemaker, handmade by Kelman Micenmacher for his son Marcel in Nazi-occupied France in 1941. The grogger is now in the collection of Yad Vashem.

Grapevine March 14, 2024: All at sea

Movers and shakers of Israeli society.

MARCH 15, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
RA'ANANA MAYOR Chaim Broyde with Mindy Ajzner.

The Holocaust museum in the Netherlands was desperately needed - opinion

Today, amid the passage of time, we are once again witness to an all too familiar and worrying trend of antisemitism and ignorance.

MARCH 12, 2024ByDANI DAYAN
THE WRITER (left) meets with King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and President Isaac Herzog at the opening of the new Dutch National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam.

Russia spreads claims Yad Vashem hides Ukraine Nazi collaboration

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova shared on her Telegram channel claims by a Russian language Youtube channel that Yad Vashem had been hiding material on the Holocaust in Ukraine.

MARCH 4, 2024ByMICHAEL STARR
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova speaks during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 15, 2022.