The erosion of the Holocaust’s lessons is no accident. It stems from deliberate efforts by populist forces at both ends of the U.S. political spectrum.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also addressed the ceremony, drawing a firm connection between the Shoah and the threats facing Israel today.
The AMCHA organization was started 30 years ago by Holocaust survivors and health care professionals to address a “conspiracy of silence” and provide survivors with the support they need.
The average age of Holocaust survivors is currently 87, the oldest of whom is a 111-year-old native of Tunis, the youngest 78, born about 10 months after the end of World War II.
Each year, Israel observes two somber days of remembrance within a week, followed by Independence Day celebrations throughout the country. The connection is profound.
The Torah tells us to remember what our enemies have tried to do to us. The more we remember, the more we will be ready to defend ourselves from future onslaughts.
Anti-Semitic agitators broke into a Holocaust Remembrance Day Zoom meeting hosted by the Israeli embassy in Berlin, posting pictures of Hitler before getting cut off.
Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah in Hebrew) is a national day of commemoration in Israel. This year, due to coronavirus, mass events will be virtual.
Six hundred survivors gathered together to sing 'Chai,' made famous by legendary Israeli artist Ofra Haza, ahead of Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day.
As part of the Jewish State's annual tribute to victims of the Holocaust, Israelis come to a standstill wherever they are when the memorial siren sounds.
Watch live as the President of the State of Israel and the Prime Minister, dignitaries, survivors, children of survivors and their families, together with the general public mark the start of Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day in Israel.
Each year, Israelis pause from their routines to ponder the fate of the six millions Jews who perished in the Holocaust, vowing to never again allow such an atrocity to occur.
The lesson to be learned from the Holocaust and the Allies' indifference to the plight of Europe's Jewish victims is that Israel can rely only on itself for survival.
"I was really privileged and moved to meet survivors of the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust as well as their children, their great-grandchildren and even their great-grandchildren," Mayor Sadiq Khan said.