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In Elie Wiesel’s latter years, he and I discussed the effects of the Holocaust. Those conversations are now an opera.

Back in 2012, while on assignment as the Chicago Tribune’s longtime music critic, I received a phone call from my editor that would change my life. Elie Wiesel had just accepted th...

Sixty Years After 'The Jews of Silence'

Haim Ben Yakov, Jewish News Syndicate Elie Wiesel's book transformed the fate of Soviet Jewry into a global public issue and became part of the open struggle against Soviet state...

Holocaust remembrance

'We're in difficult times', says Holocaust survivor

Steven Frank has visited schools across England for decades, including Witney, to tell his story.

The void left by Israel's reluctant hero: Aner Shapira's father tells Haaretz about grief, memory – and faith in human g...

Architect Moshe Shapira, whose son was killed saving others from Hamas on October 7, now dedicates his life to preservation in a way he never expected

'Auschwitz is only sleeping': What Ceija Stojka's art told me about Gaza

The Romani Holocaust survivor painted boots, barbed wire, smoke and smiling soldiers. As the daughter of survivors, the images felt horrifyingly familiar

Dr. Edith Eger, Psychologist and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 98

Calling Auschwitz her “best classroom,” Edith used the inner resources she developed in hell to help others. The post Dr. Edith Eger, Psychologist and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 9...

From the Warsaw Ghetto to Israel: Irene Shashar’s testimony amid the global rise of antisemitism

Holocaust survivor recounts her childhood in the Warsaw Ghetto, her father’s murder, and her post‑war journey through Paris and Peru. The post From the Warsaw Ghetto to Israel: Ire...

Holocaust survivor Tsili Wenkert speaks on reunion with released hostage grandson, Omer

In an emotional interview with Anat Davidov, Tsili shared how the sight of Omer’s smile in the hospital confirmed her belief in the miracle of his survival.

Connected with Alisyn Camerota: Eli Sharabi recalls 491 days as a hostage

After 491 days held hostage by Hamas, Eli Sharabi shares with Alisyn Camerota how he survived captivity, the mental strength that kept him going, and why he still chooses life ever...

He survived the Holocaust and October 7. He lived, and died, defiantly

He was a rebellious kibbutz member, a bold and brash actor and a cosmic optimist. Daniel Luz, who died last week at 92, always followed his own path. Haaretz interviewed him just d...

In this Holocaust graphic novel, the Nazis are the rats

As Israel commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day, illustrator Gal Shkedi gives new life to his grandfather's testimonies from Nazi death camps, and Tel Avivians host survivors in t...

Her kidnapped son was killed in a Gaza tunnel. A new memoir gives a searing account of her grief

When Hersh Goldberg-Polin was in the tunnels in Gaza, fellow hostages say he often quoted a line from Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl: "Those who have a 'why' to live can bear wit...

One Palestinian man's life of survival

A 90-year-old Palestinian man in Gaza says his life has never felt safe as he recalls displacements and wars

Connected with Alisyn Camerota: Eli Sharabi recalls 491 days as a hostage

After 491 days held hostage by Hamas, Eli Sharabi shares with Alisyn Camerota how he survived captivity, the mental strength that kept him going, and why he still chooses life ever...

The shadow of Aushchwitz's Angel of Death: The horrors of Dr. Mengele

The blood-soaked history of the twentieth century remembers no darker medical figure than Josef Mengele. His atrocities included the severe torture of twins and people with disabil...

Last remaining survivor of 1929 Hebron massacre passes away at 100

Yitzhak Ben Hebron was about four years old at the outbreak of the riots that led to the massacre, and managed to escape the violence through the window of the Avraham Avinu Synago...

'History is on my side': Why one of Israel's harshest internal critics still has hope

Ultra-Orthodox journalist Israel Frey lost his job, his wife and spent five brutal days in jail after he seemed to celebrate the death of five Israeli soldiers. His memoir decrying...

Echoes of Auschwitz: A Descendant’s Walk Through Memory and Fear

Agata Miodowska, an Auschwitz-Birkenau guide and descendant of survivors, shares the painful history of the Holocaust. The post Echoes of Auschwitz: A Descendant’s Walk Through Mem...

Nachruf auf Holocaust-Überlebenden: Farewell, Mister Weinberg

Albrecht Weinberg setzte die Freude an allem Lebenden den Abgründen entgegen, denen er begegnet war. Nun ist der Holocaust-Überlebende mit 101 Jahren gestorben. mehr...

Pro-Palestinian activists are banned from Buchenwald, where survivors vowed to fight for peace

An oath made by 21,000 survivors of the Nazi camp has been reinterpreted ever since it was uttered. -- The post Pro-Palestinian activists are banned from Buchenwald, where survivor...

'I lost my grandmother's story': Eesa Hayek's race to collect Nakba testimonies

After his grandmother died before he recorded her memories from 1948, Eesa Hayek made it his mission to interview as many Nakba survivors as possible. The 26-year-old has so far co...

‘I’m fragmented, and a surviving remnant’: The story of Westerbork prisoner 8331

As prisoner 8331 at the Nazis’ Westerbork transit camp in Holland, Jacob Boas must have witnessed the sorrow and fear of hundreds if not thousands of fellow inmates before they wer...

Could a 92-year-old Pole be recognized as Righteous Among Nations?

Edward Łubowski's son grew up with the story of the Jewish Birenzweig family, who hid in his grandparents' home during the Holocaust until an act of denunciation led to their murde...