Yad Vashem

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

Despite a pause in Iranian missile salvos against Israel and a relaxation of Home Front safety regulations, Yad Vashem on Sunday confirmed that there would still be no live ceremony.

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

HOLOCAUST AFFAIRS: This year, eight survivors will take part in key roles in the state ceremony on Monday evening at 8 p.m.

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

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

A young Orthodox couple in Hungary exchanged messages that sustained them through forced labor, ghettos, brazen escapes, and months in hiding.

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‘SHOAH’ BY Claude Lanzmann.

Streaming services unveil Holocaust Memorial Day 2026 programming

A highlight of this programming will be a new HOT edition of Zikaron BaSalon (Hebrew for “Remembrance in the Living Room”), an intimate project in which Holocaust survivors recount their stories.

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Revealing Yad Vashem’s Touching Memory Theater

“I would talk to Bear all the time, share my feelings with him and cry to him. He was my only connection to my family.” – Fred Lessing

APRIL 24, 2025ByNERIA BARR
A SCENE FROM the Touching Theater monodrama ‘Bear and the Toy Underground.’

WATCH: Israel commemorates 80 years since the Holocaust

Herzog said that he would lead survivors, bereaved families, and former hostages, in the March of the Living in Auschwitz on Thursday.

APRIL 23, 2025ByMICHAEL STARR
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the state's Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, April 23, 2025

Eight Holocaust survivors to participate in Yad Vashem's Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony

They will be joined by Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan, who will light the Memorial Torch, while six different Holocaust survivors who will light six separate torches. 

APRIL 23, 2025ByJOANIE MARGULIES
PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG addresses a state ceremony at Yad Vashem marking Holocaust Remembrance Day last year.

IDF General Staff visits Yad Vashem to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

The generals also met and held a discussion with Holocaust survivor, Lea Balint, and presented her with a certificate.

APRIL 23, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF General Staff members in Yad Vashem's Hall of Names, April 21, 2025.

Yad Vashem denounces Latvia closing investigation on 'Butcher of Riga' Herberts Cukurs

Yad Vashem also denounced the "repeated attempts to rehabilitate Cukurs's image in Latvia by distorting and ignoring historical truth."

APRIL 23, 2025ByJAMES GENN
HERBERTS CUKURS, deputy commander of the infamous Latvian death squad in 1937

Grapevine: New at JCT

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

APRIL 12, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
A sketch for the upcoming Machon Tal campus

Model of survival: The story of Holocaust survivor and octogenarian Yona Amit

'I don’t know why I was saved – why I from all the others. But I know that my task was to be one little part of bringing up our nation from the ashes to become a nation again, to come to Israel.'

MARCH 8, 2025ByNATAN ROTHSTEIN
Yona gazes at a photo of her grandniece, Ella Or, the last in the survivor’s Holocaust PowerPoint presentation, who died in the 2018 southern Israel flash flood tragedy. ‘We really won!’ her quote says: ‘We’re here – to stay.’

'This can't be ignored': Rubio signs Survivors' Declaration at Yad Vashem

While at Yad Vashem, Rubio signed the Survivors' Declaration.

FEBRUARY 17, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio tours Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Remembrance Center, in Jerusalem, February 16, 2025

'Forgotten Childhoods': New Yad Vashem exhibit shows Jewish childhoods during Holocaust

Paintings at Yad Vashem depict childhood memories from Germany during the Holocaust.

FEBRUARY 9, 2025ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Painting created by Ernie Meyer at age 16, when he parted from his parents for the last time at the train station.

Other cities should follow New York's example and establish Yad Vashem Way - opinion

Initiatives like NYC's Yad Vashem Way remind us that not only must we commemorate Holocaust victims but also actively combat the antisemitism and hatred that continue to permeate today's society.

FEBRUARY 3, 2025ByDANI DAYAN
'THIS PAST week's co-naming of a street in New York City as Yad Vashem Way is a significant turn in events; in a city that never sleeps, this street sign stands high as a beacon of remembrance and a call to action for all humanity,' the writer states.