IDF Shares Stories of Survivors
To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day this Monday, the IDF is sharing the stories of the survivors and remembering the fallen. See how you can get involved. Click here to support the LIBI Fund, the official fund of the IDF
IDF Draws Strength, Pays Tribute to Holocaust Survivors
Today’s IDF soldiers draw inspiration by looking back at the previous generation’s sacrifices and hearing their stories. Many of today’s soldiers have grandparents or great-grandparents who are survivors of the single greatest attack on the Jewish nation of the past century – the Holocaust.
Controversial Holocaust Memorial Draws Protests
Protesters broke through a construction cordon Tuesday to hold a vigil at the site of a planned Holocaust memorial in Budapest. The monument is meant to commemorate the victims of Nazi atrocities, but opponents say it whitewashes Hungary’s complicity in the Holocaust.
Israeli Knesset Heads to Auschwitz for Holocaust Memorial Day
Today marks the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in commemoration of the savage crime perpetrated by the Nazis against Jews during the Second World War. On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. In 2005, the United Nations passed a resolution marking January 27 as an international day of Holocaust commemoration. In what […]
Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi Takes Part in the Flower for a Survivor Project
Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi meets with Leah and Jacob Zamin, a pair of Holocaust survivors, on Holocaust Remembrance Day. This meeting took place as part of the “Flower for a Survivor” Project in which 15,000 IDF soldiers from various units met with survivors all over the country. Educating soldiers about the Holocaust is seen as […]
Holocaust Education in Israel to Begin as Early as First Grade
“Remember what Amalek did unto thee…” (Deuteronomy 25:17) Education Minister Shai Piron is proposing a change in Holocaust education in Israel. According the the Times of Israel, his new plan would include compulsory Holocaust studies in each of the twelve years of school. He first mentioned the plan on Israel’s Channel 2 news, during an […]
