Polish politician Wladyslaw Bartoszewski receives U.S. Holocaust museum’s highest honor

Published on May 1, 2013

Polish politician and historian Wladyslaw Bartoszewski was scheduled to receive the Elie Wiesel Award from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

April 22, 2013

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on April 22, 2013

Yom HaShoah in Israel [SLIDESHOW]

Published on April 8, 2013

Ceremony at Yad Vashem

Hatred of Jews remains strong, Netanyahu and Peres tell Yom Hashoah rite

Published on April 8, 2013

The hatred of Jews is still strong more than 70 years after the Holocaust began, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres said at the national Yom Hashoah ceremony at Yad Vashem.

A unique resource, German Holocaust archive reaches out

Published on April 3, 2013

George Jaunzemis was three and a half years old when, in the chaotic weeks at the end of World War Two, he was separated from his mother as she fled with him from Germany to Belgium.

French Muslim leaders in Israel hope to mend fences with Jews

Published on November 14, 2012

Standing in long, colorful robes and wearing traditional rounded hats, a group of men stood in reverent silence as one of their leaders placed a memorial wreath at Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust museum.

Yad Vashem’s Shalev named deputy chair of International Auschwitz Council

Published on September 11, 2012

Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev was appointed a deputy chairman of the International Auschwitz Council.

Eli Zborowski, founder of American Society for Yad Vashem, dies

Published on September 11, 2012

Eli Zborowski, a Holocaust survivor who founded and served as the chairman of the American Society for Yad Vashem, has died.

Henry Jaglom’s ‘45 Minutes from Broadway’

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on August 27, 2012

Yad Vashem to scan documents on Dutch Righteous among the Nations

Published on August 27, 2012

The government of the Netherlands and Yad Vashem have agreed to digitally archive documents connected to Dutch rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust.

Bar mitzvah honors child Holocaust victim

By Ryan Torok
Published on August 22, 2012

“I’m just one of more than 18,000 young people in over 750 congregations worldwide becoming a keeper of the flame of memory in the first post-survivor generation,” Trevor Goodman announced from the bimah during his bar mitzvah speech, referring to his involvement with Remember Us: The Holocaust Bnai Mitzvah Project.

Israel salutes non-Jewish Poles for heroism and preserving Jewish memory

Published on July 10, 2012

Israel in twin ceremonies honored non-Jewish Poles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust and those who have preserved Jewish memory since World War II.

Ultra Orthodox Jews reportedly vandalized Yad Vashem

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on June 18, 2012

Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews—a mystery and a shanda

By Mark Paredes
Published on June 12, 2012

Yad Vashem hit with anti-Israel, anti-Semitic graffiti

Published on June 11, 2012

Vandals spray painted anti-Israel and anti-Semitic graffiti at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum.

Yad Vashem, European group sign pact to enhance Holocaust education

Published on May 31, 2012

Yad Vashem and the Council of Europe have signed a memorandum of understanding to promote Holocaust education throughout the council's 47 member states

Sapling from Anne Frank’s tree to be planted at Yad Vashem

Published on March 22, 2012

A sapling from the chestnut tree that Anne Frank wrote about in her diary will be planted at Yad Vashem.

Germany donates $13 million to Yad Vashem

Published on February 1, 2012

The German government will donate $13 million to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Israel over the next 10 years.

Yad Vashem takes back invitations to Lithuanian officials

Published on September 19, 2011

Yad Vashem rescinded invitations to two Lithuanian officials to an annual commemoration of Lithuanian victims of the Holocaust.

Actors play doctor in Israel during week-long tour

By Hollywood Jew
Published on June 20, 2011

Yad Vashem launches Farsi YouTube chanel

Published on January 24, 2011

Yad Vashem has launched a YouTube channel in Farsi and an expanded version of its Farsi website. The Farsi YouTube channel launched Sunday contains survivor testimonies, archival footage and mini-lectures by Holocaust historians on topics such as contemporary anti-Semitism, and what makes the Holocaust a unique historical event. The comprehensive new website includes a chronological and thematic narrative about the Holocaust with related video, photos, documents and artifacts; frequently asked questions about the Holocaust; a lexicon of terms; online exhibitions including a multimedia presentation of the Auschwitz Album in Farsi; and stories of Righteous Among the Nations.

Yad Vashem pays tribute to Aboriginal activist William Cooper

Published on December 13, 2010

Yad Vashem honored the "extraordinary act" of Aboriginal activist William Cooper, who led a rare individual protest against the Nazis in Australia.

Pope Visits Yad Vashem

By JewishJournal.com
Published on May 11, 2009

Vatican invites rabbi to speak; IDF using Facebook to catch draft dodgers

Published on October 1, 2008

The Vatican for the first time invited a rabbi to speak at its World Synod of Bishops

VIDEO: Jewish Americans for Obama

Published on September 30, 2008

Jewish friends, colleagues and supporters from Chicago say Barack Obama's Yiddishe neshumah -- Jewish soul -- makes him the right candidate. Official campaign video.

Not everyone forgot Jews in Shoah, Polish official says

By Tom Tugend
Published on January 24, 2008

"During the Holocaust, not everyone abandoned the Jews. Not everyone forgot about you."


So spoke Poland's Undersecretary of State Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka, and her words were backed by the photos and stories of 21 surviving non-Jews from Poland recognized as Righteous Among the Nations that lined the hallway at the UCLA Hillel Center.

Wiesenthal Center honors one of Shoah’s righteous Arabs

By Tom Tugend
Published on April 12, 2007

On Monday morning, when the Simon Wiesenthal Center observes Yom HaShoah, commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, a place of honor will be reserved for the daughter of the late Khaled Abdelwahab. Abdelwahab is the first Arab to be nominated for official recognition by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations, and his story adds a new dimension to the 6 million stories of horror -- and occasionally nobility -- rising from the ashes of the Holocaust. His acts also shed light on the little-known fates of Jews in the Arab countries of North Africa during World War II.

Sudanese Discover Parallels in Visit to Yad Vashem

By Dina Kraft
Published on April 5, 2007

A group of refugees from Darfur on a visit to Yad Vashem lingered next to a model of the crematorium at Auschwitz, taking in the ghastly sight of bodies carried on cots and pushed into ovens.

L.A. ghetto fantasy emerges from visit to Israel

By Argenis Villa
Published on September 21, 2006

Visiting the Yad Vashem museum of the Holocaust in Jerusalem.

Marlborough Defuses Anti-Israel Claim

By Julie G Fax
Published on February 2, 2006

A private girls' school in Hancock Park has defused accusations of anti-Israel bias in the wake of an English teacher's speech on the Mideast at an all-school assembly.

Putin Visit Stirs Conflicting Opinions

By Lev Krichevsky
Published on May 5, 2005

There were important issues on the agenda when Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Israel last week. Still, Russian newspapers seemed most impressed that Putin -- the first Russian or Soviet leader to visit the Jewish state -- wore a kippah on his head when he visited Yad Vashem.

Becoming a Nephew

By Tom Teicholz
Published on November 25, 2004

Today, I am a nephew. Last weekend, the names of more than 3 million persons murdered in the Holocaust were posted on the Internet as part of a searchable database created by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

Yad Vashem was established in 1950 by an act of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, as the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance authority. From its very inception, it has taken on the task of being a repository for the names and memory of the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.

Becoming a Nephew

By Tom Teicholz
Published on November 25, 2004

Today, I am a nephew. Last weekend, the names of more than 3 million persons murdered in the Holocaust were posted on the Internet as part of a searchable database created by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

The Circuit

By Michael Aushenker
Published on March 21, 2002

Circuit News.