Holocaust survivors

Couple hides Holocaust survivor mother's body to maintain compensations

A Karmiel couple buried a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor in her yard to keep receiving her benefits. Police found her remains 3 meters deep a year and a half later.

Police car at night
Dita Kraus 'Librarian of Auschwitz'

Holocaust survivor and 'Librarian of Auschwitz' Dita Kraus dead at 96

Yehuda "Idek" Friedman

Holocaust survivor and member of group plot to kill six million Germans dead at 105

Italian Senator Liliana Segre attends the opening of the first International Summit on Children’s Rights at the Clementina Hall on February 03, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican.

Holocaust survivors son against Francesca Albanese: "She's obsessed with my mother"


Scarlett Johansson and the Jews: Top star’s directorial debut is Holocaust survivors film

When Scarlett Johansson first read Tory Kamen’s script, she told the Hollywood news site Deadline in an interview, 'I cried, and that almost never happens.' 

DIRECTOR SCARLETT JOHANSSON stands on the red carpet with ‘Eleanor the Great’ cast members June Squibb (center) and Erin Kellyman at the 78th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, in May 2025.

Holocaust survivor Rita Zohar brings lived history to Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut film

“Eleanor the Great,” Johansson’s directorial debut, stars 95-year-old Jewish actress June Squibb as she seeks connection in New York City following the death of her best friend Bessie.

Director Scarlett Johansson and cast members June Squibb, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Erin Kellyman pose during the red carpet for the film "Eleanor The Great", as the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) returns for its 50th edition in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September 8, 2025.

Holocaust survivor passes away at a Swiss clinic specializing in voluntary assisted death - report

Ruth Posner was a talented actress and dancer who survived the Treblinka extermination camp as a child.

Ruth Posner, Holocaust survivor and talented actress, dancer, and author

Aron Bell, last of the Bielski brothers whose famed brigade saved 1,200 Jews, dies at 98

Bell, who later changed his name from Aron Bielski, was born in 1927 in Stankiewicze, part of present-day Belarus, as the youngest of 10 brothers and two sisters.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Aron Bell pose for a photo at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, Russia on June 4, 2019.

Jewish Holocaust survivor beaten to death, nursing home roommate charged

Nina Kravtsov was from a small Ukrainian town. She was forced into a ghetto with several other family members when her town was invaded.

Kings County Supreme Court building. (illustrative)

Looking at the enduring inspiration of Leon Uris’s ‘Exodus’ - opinion

Sixty-five years later, would the book, the movie, and the music have been welcomed with such global approbation?

Alexander Smukler presents a samizdat copy of Exodus in Russian to author Leon Uris in Moscow, November 1989.

Holocaust Survivor and Educator David Schaecter Passes Away at 96

Schaector, who participated in several March of the Living journeys in Poland & Israel , leaves a legacy of witnesses to carry the torch of memory

Holocaust survivor and educator David Schaecter, March of the Living in Auschwitz 2023

86 Years since World War II Began

Holocaust Survivors Share Their Childhood Memories from Poland

Weiss family in 1939 Poland

March of the Living in Łódź honors the city and ghetto’s Holocaust victims

99-year-old Holocaust survivor from Łódź, Leon Weintraub: “Be sensitive to all manifestations of intolerance. I urge you to be vigilant and watchful.”

March of the Living in Łódź

Parashat Re'eh: The gift of mercy

This is our ancestral heritage, passed down through the generations, and rooted so deeply that it is part of our very nature.

COMPASSION & MERCY: Haredi soldiers from the IDF Hasmonean Brigade take part in a beret march after completing seven months of basic and advanced training, at the Western Wall, Aug. 6.

New US Postal Service stamp honors Holocaust survivor and humanitarian Elie Wiesel

Wiesel, who died in 2016 at the age of 87, is the 18th person to be honored in the USPS’ Distinguished Americans stamp series.

The United States Postal Service released a new series of stamps in honor of Elie Wiesel.