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Holocaust Remembrance Day

S.F. Mayor Daniel Lurie gave the keynote address at the city's Yom HaShoah commemoration at the JCCSF. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

How a Nazi bookstore led to S.F.’s Yom HaShoah observance and the ‘courage to act’

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi April 14, 2026April 14, 2026

San Francisco’s Jewish community held its first Yom HaShoah ceremony on May 3, 1978, just one short and painful year after the opening of a Nazi bookstore across from a […]

Jeanette Ringold speaks often about being a hidden child and how she learned what really happened. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

Dutch ‘hidden child’ had to piece together her own story

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 14, 2026April 17, 2026
JD and Usha Vance at Dachau Concentration Camp memorial site
Posted inPolitics

Vance omits mention of Jews from Holocaust Remembrance Day statement, incensing Jewish critics on both sides of the aisle

by Andrew Lapin January 28, 2026January 28, 2026
Community leaders stand next to lit memorial candles during the International Holocaust Remembrance Day event at the Menorah Center SF on Jan. 25. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

‘Never again’ must be ‘something we do’: S.F. event commemorates Holocaust

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi January 26, 2026January 26, 2026
Three men, one very young and two very old, light candles in front of a packed auditorium
Posted inHolidays

Bay Area events for Yom HaShoah and Israel Memorial Day

by J. Staff April 14, 2025April 21, 2025
An illustration of tourists standing in line at Auschwitz. One asks "Is this the line for ticket holders?" Another replies "It's for people who don't have tickets yet. I've been waiting for FOUR hours!"
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

A gift shop at Auschwitz? New films and a graphic memoir explore the contradictions of ‘dark tourism’

by Andrew Silow-Carroll January 27, 2025January 27, 2025
The main tower at the entrance to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, covered under a large tent, stands illuminated during the official ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp on Jan. 27, 2020. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Just 50 Holocaust survivors will be at Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of its liberation

by Toby Axelrod January 24, 2025January 24, 2025
Luba Grungras, who is believed to be the last living survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp in the Bay Area, at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living on Jan. 16, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inFirst Person

‘I did not understand I was still alive’: At 100, Auschwitz survivor recalls Holocaust horrors

by Luba Grungras January 23, 2025January 24, 2025
Holocaust Memorial at the California Legion of Honor in San Francisco (Photo/Library of Congress-Carol M. Highsmith)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

Where and how to observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day around the Bay Area

by J. Staff January 23, 2025January 24, 2025
Barbara Drapińska as Marta in "The Last Stage," a film made in the  ruins of Auschwitz by women who had been imprisoned there.
Posted inFilm

Exploring the Holocaust films of the 1940s, ‘made in the shadow of the ruins’

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky January 22, 2025January 23, 2025

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