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Holocaust survivor Nate Leipciger participates in the 2026 March of the Living.

98-year-old survivor: Hatred won’t define you

As Jewish students around the world begin a new academic year amid heightened antisemitism, a 98-year-old Holocaust survivor is urging them to stand proudly as Jews and never allow hatred to define … more

9/9/26

Natan Sharansky and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Aug. 25.

Prisoner of Zion Sharansky is honored in Kyiv

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy honored Natan Sharansky with the country’s Order of Merit for his work supporting Ukraine and preserving Holocaust memory. Sharansky, the former … more

By JNS and other sources | 9/2/26

From left: CUNY Chancellor Felix V. Matos Rodrigues; Gideon Taylor, president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany; Sarah Valente, director of the Sandra K. Wasserman Jewish Studies Center at Baruch College; and Baruch College President S. David Wu.

Fellowship at City University of New York to expand Shoah education

The City University of New York is launching a new faculty fellowship designed to develop and strengthen Holocaust education across disciplines at three of its campuses. The CUNY Faculty … more

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen, JNS | 9/2/26

‘Right 45 minutes’ can shift teens on Jew-hate

If schools devote just 45 minutes to a lesson that situates the Holocaust in the broader history of antisemitism and its impact on Jews, they can go a long way to dispelling harmful conspiracy … more

By Rebecca Szlechter, JNS | 8/28/26

Jewish star at the Dachau concentration camp.

We owe an apology to the Jews of the 1930s

For most of my life, I looked back at the Jews of the 1930s with a question I could never quite answer: Why didn’t they see it? Why didn’t they recognize what was unfolding around them? Why … more

By Steve Rosenberg | 7/1/26

Philanthropy starts asking the wrong questions

I reached out to a family foundation about Holocaust education programming, including an upcoming webinar … more

By Jennifer Bressler | 6/24/26

In Hamburg on May 13, 1939, the Heldenmuth family boards the MS St. Louis, a German luxury liner carrying 937 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to Cuba.

After locking doors, judging those who survived

When critics invoke the 1946 bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem to condemn the Zionist movement or sneer that Jews living in Judea and Samaria “came from Brooklyn,” they are not merely … more

By Alexander Mermelstein, JNS | 6/3/26

Where are the voices defending Europe’s Jews?

The continent that vowed to become “different” after the Shoah is once again allowing antisemitism to spread openly across public life, culture and politics. There would have been no Europe … more

By Fiamma Nirenstein | 5/13/26

Henry and Bernard Schanzer at Congregation Beth Sholom in Lawrence, where they delivered the Fanya Gottesfeld Heller keynote address during the Greater Five Towns Community Yom Hashoah Commemoration on April 13.

Twins tells 5 Towns their Shoah experiences

More than eight decades after they were hidden as Jewish children in Nazi-occupied France, twin brothers Henry and Bernard Schanzer stood before a packed sanctuary in Lawrence on April 13 and … more

For The Jewish Star | 4/29/26

Holocaust survivors Hannah Yakin, 93, and Ben Gazan, 83, who were separated for eight decades, embrace in Poland on April 13.

After 80 years, survivors reunited at Auschwitz

KRAKOW, Poland — For eight decades, Holocaust survivor Hannah Yakin, 93, wondered what happened to the baby boy who turned up outside a neighbor’s home in suburban Amsterdam during … more

By Etgar Lefkovits, JNS | 4/22/26