As antisemitism surges globally in the wake of October 7, an unlikely phenomenon provides grounds for cautious optimism: the emergence and continued operation of Holocaust museums and exhibitions in Muslim-majority countries.
Israel's President Isaac Herzog addressed the U.N. on Monday at its annual Holocaust Remembrance Day event. His speech comes as a new report shows a worrying rise in antisemitic attitudes globally.
An editor at Germany's Jewish newsweekly responds to Elon Musk's endorsement of the Alternative for Germany political party.
King Charles marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz with a speech in Poland warning of growing antisemitism.
M onday, Jan. 27, marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Ten days prior to the opening of the gates, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews, was detained. He disappeared and his fate remains unknown.
Pope Francis has warned of the “scourge of anti-semitism” in his prayer on the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, noting it marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Holocaust survivor Stanislaw Zalewski attends the Commemoration Ceremony of the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, in Oswiecim, Poland, on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)
As Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked on Jan. 27, a town in southwestern Germany unflinchingly confronts its past and reaches out to Jews.
The virulent antisemitism that led to the Holocaust is still rampant around the globe today, World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder said against the backdrop of Monday’s solemn commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration and death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
While the number of survivors in Israel dropped to 123,715 last year, a rising trend of Holocaust memorials in the Muslim world provide 'a small amount of light'