Tag: Yad Vashem

On December 23, 2015, Yad Vashem posthumously recognized Marie and Joseph Andries as Righteous Among the Nations.

Mayors from more than two dozen cities are in Jerusalem and will visit Yad Vashem.

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure project convened 30 historians and researchers at Yad Vashem to provide tools to improve access to Holocaust documentation.

A forest fire on the western slopes of the Judean Mountains sent flames through the Jerusalem Forest -- again -- but no cause has yet been determined.

Jews competed in the most coveted sporting competitions throughout Europe, including the Olympics.

Following is the address by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the eve (4 May) of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day.

Rivlin addressed the Holocaust survivors attending the ceremony, asking for their help in extracting the meaning of the tragedy and lessons to be learned.

MK Isaac Herzog, head of Israel’s Labour Party and Opposition leader said that he is “considering suspending relations” with British Labour.

US President Barack Obama told a gathering at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, "We are all Jews."

On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Netanyahu reminds the world that irrational hatred for and obsession with the Jewish people continues.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is visiting Yad VaShem Sunday during his two-day tour in Israel for the 30th International Mayors Conference. He...

"Including the Kotel along with Yad VaShem and Mt. Herzl changes Zionism from 100 years to 3,000 years."

U.S. Secretary of State Kerry calls the Shoah "the most painful and horrific chapter in human history."

Israelis visit Yad Vashem ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 16.

An IDF soldier at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem. Tuesday, January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On January 27, 1945 the Auschwitz-Birkenau...

  Prof. Jan Grabowski of the University of Ottawa in Canada was awarded the 2014 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research for his...

“The truth will come to light… truth will come to light.” – Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

'Jews Against Genocide' pervert the Ice Bucket Challenge into a "blood bucket" attack on the IDF.

Thousands evacuated and houses on fire as planes try to water bomb the blaze.

As consul general of Peru in Geneva, Barreto issued 27 Peruvian passports to 58 Jews, including 14 children, even though the government of Peru by 1938 had given instructions to its consulates in Europe not to issue visas to foreign immigrants — with an emphasis on Jews in particular.

At Yad Vashem, the pontiff questioned the role of G-d in the slaughter of the millions who died during the Holocaust.

G-d gave us our ammunition. Torah, prayer, and loving kindness are our most powerful weapons.

On Sunday evening, April 27, 2014, six Holocaust survivors lit six torches representing the six million Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide during the opening ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem.

Apparently Thomas Friedman needs a history lesson to learn why those aren't "occupied territories."

A Dutch diplomat who died in a Nazi concentration camp will receive Israel’s special honor for non-Jews who helped Holocaust survivors escape the genocide. The...

"The Holocaust was not six million. It was one plus one plus one."

Pope Francis will make his first official visit to Israel for only 48 hours in late May, Israel media reported Thursday. The trip is scheduled...

Muhammad Helmy, an Egyptian doctor who lived in Berlin during the war rescued a Jewish family, but his own family ignores his Yad Vashem praise.

Warsaw Ghetto survivor and researcher Israel Gutman has died in Jerusalem at the age of 90. He was born in Warsaw, where he was...

Why did the Pope excommunicate every single Communist in the world, but never excommunicate a single Nazi?