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Yad Vashem

Joe Biden speaks to Holocaust survivors Giselle Cycowicz (right) and Rena Quint (left) during a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, July 13, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Debbie Hill-Pool-AFP via Getty Images)
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Biden kneels to meet with Holocaust survivors during visit to Yad Vashem

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA July 14, 2022July 14, 2022

Joe Biden dispensed with both social distancing and the chair arranged for him Wednesday as he embraced two Holocaust survivors, then knelt to speak with them during his first trip […]

From left: Lidia S., Olympiada D., Aleksandra B. and Aleksander S. are among 15 Ukrainians named "Righteous Among the Nations" who helped save Jews during the Holocaust who were still living in Ukraine when Russia invaded. (Photo/NY Jewish Week-Courtesy Jewish Foundation for the Righteous)
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Inside the mission to aid Ukraine’s 15 remaining ‘Righteous Gentiles’

by Stewart Ain and Jewish Week May 11, 2022
Former prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp at an International Holocaust Remembrance day event at the former camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Jan. 27, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Damian Klamka-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)
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A global day of Holocaust remembrance grows in scope — and urgency

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA January 27, 2022January 27, 2022
(Photo/Pixabay CC0)
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ADL partners with L’Oréal to promote Holocaust education in the U.S.

by Nidhi Upadhyaya and RNS September 30, 2021
Alon Shaya (right) helped Steven Fenves experience the taste of his pre-Holocaust childhood. (Photos/U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; Rush Jagoe)
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Star chef Alon Shaya helps a Holocaust survivor recreate recipes from his youth

by Margaret Littman and JTA March 3, 2021March 3, 2021
Effi Eitam at the Jerusalem Supreme Court during a hearing on searching for oil in the Golan Heights, Dec. 23, 2014. (Photo/JTA-Flash90)
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The political fight over who will lead Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA November 16, 2020
In lieu of gatherings to remember Holocaust victims and read aloud their names publicly, Yad Vashem is asking the international public to record themselves reading the names of Holocaust victims and share their videos on social media using the campaign’s hashtags , #RememberingFromHome #ShoahNames. (COURTESY YAD VASHEM)
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Yad Vashem to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day with at-home name-reading videos

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA April 6, 2020April 6, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, Jan. 23, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

Historians call Putin’s speech at global Auschwitz commemoration ‘completely false’ and ‘ridiculous’

by Sam Sokol and JTA January 23, 2020January 23, 2020
An aerial view of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, Dec. 17, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Moshe Shai-Flash90)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

With Holocaust summit in Jerusalem, Israel gets dragged into Europe’s memory wars

by Sam Sokol and JTA January 22, 2020January 22, 2020
Holocaust survivors Sarah Yanai and Yossi Mor reunite at Yad Vashem with Melpomeni Dina (center), one of their wartime rescuers who was recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. /Courtesy of Yad Vashem
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2 Holocaust survivors reunited with their Greek rescuer for first time since WWII

by JTA November 4, 2019

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