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People view the exhibits at Yad Vashem on April 13, 2026.

Head of Anne Frank Educational Center questions Yad Vashem's Germany expansion, drawing backlash

By TOBIAS SIEGAL

Exterior view of the new Yad Vashem Education Center in Munich.

Yad Vashem chooses Germany for first overseas education centers

By TOBY AXELROD/JTA

The presentation at the Begin Center was attended by researchers and representatives from multiple universities, embassies, and members of the Serbian community in Israel.

Collection of documents of Ustasha Atrocities presented at the Begin Center

By Aleksandar Nikolić

A page in Calel Perechodnik’s original diary, which is now stored in Yad Vashem’s archives in Jerusalem.

Yad Vashem restores a Jewish ghetto policeman's Holocaust confession

By Emil Bothe

Yad Vashem’s ‘Living Memory’ exhibition creates a time-travel experience through art.

Inside Yad Vashem's 'Living Memory': A window to victims' souls

By Lara Sukster Mosheyof

As antisemitism rises in publishing, Jewish and Israeli writers are confronting rejection, backlash, and growing pressure to silence their voices.

'Your story is too Jewish': Inside publishing's dirty open secret

By RUTH MARKS EGLASH

A Hanukkah candlelighting ceremony at the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands, December 1943.

How Jews preserved ritual and hope in the Holocaust’s darkest days

Agam Berger at March of the Living ceremony 2026.

A dirge without end: March of the Living ceremony presents Jewish life, honors Holocaust survivors

By HAGAY HACOHEN

RENEE ALBERSHEIM was murdered during the Holocaust. A Jewish couple in Florida has said the Mourner's Kaddish for her daily for years.

Florida Jewish community says kaddish for children killed in Holocaust

By STEWART AIN/JTA

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials stand at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony.

Netanyahu, officials lay wreaths after siren marking Holocaust Remembrance Day

By MICHAEL STARR

Rabbi Jacobson stands next to the monument in Trondheim, 1947.

How a Norwegian pastor helped Jews pray in secret during the Holocaust

THE WALL of Righteous Gentiles at Yad Vashem.

Honoring courage in the face of evil and indifference

By TOVA HERZL

Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on April 12, 2026, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Israel to mark Holocaust remembrance, but ceremonies disrupted by Iran war

By MICHAEL STARR

THIS YEAR’S eight survivors carry within them an enormous sweep of Jewish history: ghettos, pits, forests, camps, cattle cars, shootings, hiding places, and then, after all that, lives rebuilt in Israel. Here, President Isaac Herzog stands beside the memorial torch at Yad Vashem.

Lighting the torch: The survivors at the heart of Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

(L-R): MEIR HIRSCHFELD, 1936. IDIT PAPA, 1942

Letters of love and survival: A Holocaust love story preserved at Yad Vashem

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

‘SHOAH’ BY Claude Lanzmann.

Streaming services unveil Holocaust Memorial Day 2026 programming

By HANNAH BROWN

PEOPLE ATTEND a vigil organised by the Campaign Against Antisemitism and Chabad UK to honour victims of the Bondi attack in Sydney and mark the second night of Hanukkah, in London, Britain, December 15, 2025.

Grapevine, April 10, 2026: Toxic antisemitism

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan meets with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, March 23, 2026

Yad Vashem Chairman Dayan meets with Pope Leo XIV to discuss Holocaust remembrance

By DANYA SAPERSTEIN