(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — For much of its history, Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust authority, tried to steer clear of political controversies as it went about creating a lasting memorial and ...

First, Israel loses an essential voice within the European Union. Poland, as a rising power in the EU and a leader on NATO’s ...

(JNS) A rare volume of the Talmud printed before World War II and found unscathed in a historic Munich beer hall after the Holocaust was given to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum by the family of ...

Dani Dayan is the Chairman of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. In 2023, Israel’s memorial to the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust will mark its 70th year. Dani, who previously served as Israel’s ...

Halfway through a tour of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum on Monday, the former Islamic State sex slave slumped. Two years after the first mass graves were found in Sinjar, the northern Iraqi ...

Located about four miles from the Old City in West Jerusalem's Mount Herzl neighborhood, Yad Vashem contains the world's largest collection of information on the Holocaust. Stretching out over 45 ...

The chairman of Yad Vashem decried the stifling of a Holocaust scholar in Poland this week as “a new low” in attempts to suppress discussion about the complicity of Poles in the persecution and murder ...

Cut into a Jerusalem hillside is a striking, modern memorial to an unthinkable past. Part museum, part archive, it's called Yad Vashem, which in Hebrew means "a memorial and a name." More than a ...

Yitzhak Arad, a Holocaust survivor and scholar who was the director of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial for more than two decades, has died at the age of 94, the center said Thursday. Arad ...

Birmingham student Katy Muench recounts an emotional visit to Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. This week, on January 27, it is the 60-year anniversary since the liberation of Auschwitz, but ...