Holocaust Remembrance Day
Muslims and Jews in Bosnia observe Holocaust Remembrance Day and call for peace and dialogue
By Sabina Niksic — January 29, 2024
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The event on Saturday underscored the message that the two communities share the experience of persecution and must stay united in their commitment to peace.
Time to remember more than one atrocity? A defense of Holocaust Remembrance Day
By Avi Shafran — February 1, 2023
(RNS) — There’s a reason we take a special day to remember the Holocaust.
The case for secular education in Hasidic schools
By Naftuli Moster — April 7, 2022
(RNS) — The Jewish community is not served by depriving people of the right to their own history.
UN chief decries antisemitism, urges stand against hatred
By Edith M. Lederer — January 26, 2022
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was alarmed to learn recently that barely half of adults worldwide have heard of the Holocaust.
Holocaust survivors use social media to fight anti-Semitism
By David Rising — April 8, 2021
(AP) — The #ItStartedWithWords campaign educates people about how the Nazis dehumanized Jews years before death camps were established.
Experts: Coronavirus brings spike in anti-Semitic sentiments
By Aron Heller — April 20, 2020
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Researchers at Tel Aviv University said the hateful response to the novel coronavirus was the continuation of an ancient form of anti-Semitism that involves blaming Jews when ‘things go wrong.’
Auschwitz survivors pay homage as world remembers Holocaust
By Vanessa Gera — January 27, 2019
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday amid a revival of hate-inspired violence and signs that younger generations know less and less about the genocide of Jews, Roma and others by Nazi Germany during World War II.
As survivors age, Holocaust educators rush to preserve their irreplaceable testimony
By Michele Chabin — January 24, 2019
JERUSALEM (RNS) — The race against time has prompted a program to take survivors back to their hometowns in Europe to film their recollections of the places where they experienced the catastrophe most acutely.
What’s Auschwitz? 2/3 of millennials don’t know it was a Nazi death camp, survey reports
By Mark A. Kellner — April 12, 2018
(RNS) — It also found that 31 percent of all Americans and more than 4-in-10 millennials believe that 2 million Jews or less were killed during the Holocaust — substantially less than the historically accepted figure, which is closer to 6 million.
At Auschwitz, remembering the Holocaust after the passage of a contentious Polish law
By Lauren Markoe — April 11, 2018
KRAKOW, Poland (RNS) — Swirling around Thursday's annual march are questions about Poles' willingness to grapple with some of their forebears' participation in the Holocaust.
The Good Swastika
By Joshua Hammerman — January 26, 2018
(RNS) — Making peace with the swastika does not mean making peace with Nazis past and present, nor with their hateful ideology – nor with their corrupted version of that symbol.
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Trump has another opportunity to speak up
By R. Ward Holder — April 21, 2017
(RNS) Trump has only the man in the mirror to blame for questions about his relationships with the Jewish people.
Trump statement on Holocaust remembrance does not mention Jews
By David Gibson — January 27, 2017
(RNS) Trump's words break from the traditional language followed by the president's Democratic and Republican predecessors, and upset some Jewish leaders.
Holocaust survivors on Capitol Hill light candles to remember
By Lauren Markoe — May 5, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israeli and American officials warn of rising intolerance.
Obama warns of growing anti-Semitism
By Gregory Korte — January 28, 2016
WASHINGTON — On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the president honors 4 people who helped save Jews during World War II.
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