For Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial and museum, the theme of this year’s Yom HaShoah commemoration, which was planned prior to Oct. 7, has taken on a new meaning.

JERUSALEM, Israel — A somber siren wailed across Israel for two minutes of silence at 10 a.m. Thursday. Cars stopped along the highway, and people paused in their daily errands as they stood in ...

Around the world today, sirens are sounding, candles and torches are burning, and people are gathering to pray and mark Yom Hashoah, the "Day of Remembrance" of the Holocaust.

For Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial and museum, the theme of this year’s Yom Hashoah commemoration, which was planned prior to Oct. 7, has taken on a new meaning.

A flag of Israel was seen on the railroad tracks in KL Birkenau during the International March of The Living on April 28, 2022. (Wojciech Grabowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images via JTA.org ...

NEW CITY — Lighting candles on Yom HaShoah honors the memory of six million Jews and millions of other people murdered amid the Nazi atrocities. Rockland residents will mark the yearly ...

Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) falls on the 27th day of Nissan on the Hebrew calendar (nightfall of April 23 to 24), and is commemorated in Israel and around the world as a national day ...

This year, the ceremonies of Yom HaShoah are imbued with additional meaning. October 7, 2023, reminded the Jewish people of what the Jewish state exists in part to prevent: another Holocaust.

Each year on Yom HaShoah, we remember the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. We remember in synagogues and ceremonies, in classrooms and public squares. We light candles, recite names, and ...

Rockland residents will mark the yearly international commemoration of Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day — on Thursday, April 24, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the County Courthouse Jurors ...

Rockland residents will mark the yearly international commemoration of Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day — on Thursday, April 24, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the County Courthouse Jurors ...

In Israel, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah in Hebrew) is a national day of commemoration, on which the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust are memorialized. It ...