Holocaust survivors

Extreme right-wing activists block car of former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak

Aharon Barak, a Holocaust survivor and former Supreme Court president, was harassed by right-wing activists in Tel Aviv, leading to public backlash and calls for police action.

Extreme right-wing activists block car of former Supreme Court president Aharon Barak, January 28, 2026.
Holocaust survivor Moshe David Meir poses for a picture at his home in Jerusalem on January 27, 2025, Meir survived the Birkenau concentration camp during the Holocaust.

Israel has the moral duty to simplify beaureucracy for Holocaust survivors - opinion

Holocaust survivor Sarah Weinstein speaks at the UN General Assembly.

Holocaust survivor gives speech in Hebrew for first time in history at UNGA Holocaust Remembrance

Auschwitz Survivor, Gregorz Tomaszewski, age 83 holds a book with photos of him when he was a child as he speaks during a meeting with the press at the International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust on January 26, 2023 in Oswiecim, Poland.

Holocaust education, remembrance is our responsibility - opinion


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.

Holocaust survivor injured in Iranian missile attack succumbs to wounds

Olga Weissberg, 91, succumbed to her wounds she received during the 12-day war in June.

Wreckage from an Iranian missile impact in central Israel, June 22, 2025.