(JTA) — On one level, the recent event commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz at Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum was a tour de force. Dozens of world leaders traveled ...

The achievement helps broaden awareness of Holocaust history at a time when misinformation and distortion remain growing ...

Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, has launched a groundbreaking initiative called the Touching Memory Theater. In a powerful new approach to Holocaust education, this ...

The chairman of Yad Vashem decried the stifling of a Holocaust scholar in Poland this week as “a new low” in attempts to suppress discussion about the complicity of Poles in the persecution and murder ...

Jerusalem — The Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem was designed as a place for Jews to come together and though it has been the one definite stop for every foreign head of state, until very recently, it ...

new video loaded: PM Abe visits Yad Vashem Holocaust museum Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lays a wreath at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust museum during his three-day visit to the region. Rough ...

(JNS) Yad Vashem is planning a multimillion-dollar, state of the art sound and light show as part of a family-oriented educational center at the Jerusalem Holocaust Memorial, to tell the story of ...

Cut into a Jerusalem hillside is a striking, modern memorial to an unthinkable past. Part museum, part archive, it's called Yad Vashem, which in Hebrew means "a memorial and a name." More than a ...

(JNS) A rare volume of the Talmud printed before World War II and found unscathed in a historic Munich beer hall after the Holocaust was given to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum by the family of ...

April 24 (UPI) --Israel began its Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day events Wednesday night as similar events continue through Friday in the United States. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — For much of its history, Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust authority, tried to steer clear of political controversies as it went about creating a lasting memorial and ...

Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski has summoned the Israeli ambassador over a post by Yad Vashem. The Holocaust memorial ...