Hatikvah, from the ashes
Even as we mourn our six million martyrs, let us rejoice in everything our people have managed to rebuild in the eight decades since the Holocaust.
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Where Holocaust commemoration succeeded and where it failed
Museums, archives of testimonies and educational efforts preserved the survivors’ legacy. Still, that won’t counter contemporary antisemitic hatred and disinformation.
The Nazis burned books 90 years ago, but the smoke lingers
Even before the organized extermination of the Jews began, their literature was thrown into the fire. While a book is just a temporary state, and our ideas do not rely on actual print editions, seeing the pages being destroyed by the flame shakes us to our core.
Her mother and brother were murdered in the Holocaust; then she traced the culprits
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.”
Israel stands still as sirens blare for Holocaust Remembrance Day
Almost everyone stopped what they were doing at 10 a.m., including motorists, who stopped their cars in the middle of the road, stood beside their vehicles, and joined in the reflection.
