“The Federal Council considers it of great importance to keep alive the memory of the consequences of National Socialism, namely the Holocaust and the fate of the six million Jews and all other victims of the National Socialist regime,” a government statement said.
For two and a half years Esther Zamri hid with her family in a barn. One day, Zamri recalls, her mother shouted, "Have mercy on me, don't kill us, I have young children," after which she heard two shots. "That night I cried, very quietly, so that they wouldn't hear me.”
"I appeal to you, citizens of Israel, with a simple prayer: Let us leave these sacred days, which begin tonight and end on Independence Day, above all dispute; let us all come together, as always, in partnership, in grief, in remembrance," Herzog says at Yad Vashem.
A sharp rise in assaults reported in the United States and Europe included beatings, being spat on, and having objects thrown.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog are scheduled to speak at the event.
Sites include a museum that has been criticized for portraying a Polish family, which sheltered Jews and was murdered along with them, as representative of mainstream Poles at the time, instead of a small minority who risked their lives.
Ben Zyskowicz has served in Finland’s parliament, the Eduskunta, for over 40 years, and is one of the most visible representatives of Finland’s Jewish community.
The men were shot within 24 hours, both while leaving a synagogue, with the LAPD saying "the facts of the case led to this crime being investigated as a hate crime."
Nearly half of American Jewish respondents approved of President Joe Biden’s response to antisemitism; 56% disapproved of Congress' record in that regard.
The US president says that antisemitism has been a part of his education since his father instilled in him the promise of “never again” to the “horrors of the Shoah” at family dinners.