Susan Silver shares emotional account of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) 30th Anniversary Delegation trip to Poland On April 16th I boarded a plane and left for the experience of a lifetime, traveling to both Poland and Israel alongside IDFsoldiers through the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces Continue Reading »

One by one, the emails from the White House arrived in inboxes across Washington on Monday morning, each highlighting a unique initiative toward a different corner of the globe: Syria. Iran. Uganda. The unifying factor was the president’s appearance that day at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, and Continue Reading »

In rare and moving footage dated to April 20th 1945, inmates at Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp sing the anthem of hope ‘Hatikva.’ Listen here: Continue Reading »

11,000 participate in 25th annual March of the Living on Holocaust Remembrance Day Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed via videolink the 11,000 participants of the 25th annual March of the Living on Thursday and offered a heartfelt message. Marchers this year reportedly hailed from 50 countries. Netanyahu told the crowd, who Continue Reading »

Remarks on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day The legacy of the Holocaust endows us with a double duty. First, we must not allow the memory of the six million to be trivialized. Human history is rife with atrocities, massacres, and wars, but nothing be equated with the enormity of the Holocaust. Continue Reading »

Malka Springer, 82, donates doll she says helped her survive horrors of Holocaust: ‘It’s in good hands now’ Last Passover Holocaust survivor Malka Springer celebrated her 82nd birthday. Since World War II ended, Malka has rebuilt her life, with her very own family, and yet has remained attached to her Continue Reading »

Prime Minister Stephen Harper today issued the following statement on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day: “Yom HaShoah is a day to commemorate the nearly 6 million Jewish men, women and children who were slaughtered by the Nazis, and for the Jewish resistance during that period. “On this day, which marks Continue Reading »

Two-minute siren sounds at 10 am in memory of six million Jews who perished in Holocaust; traditional memorial services held across country A two-minute siren sounded across the country at 10 am Thursday in memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. The siren kicked off memorial Continue Reading »

A moving video showing Israelis remembering the Holocaust. Watch here: Continue Reading »

Education is antidote to hatred, Meisels says Ottawa will remember the Holocaust with the help of a very special guest Wednesday evening. Hungarian-Canadian Leslie Meisels spent four months in a concentration camp near the end of the Second World War. He will give the keynote speech as part of this Continue Reading »