Holocaust

A new exhibition at Yad Vashem presents stories and memories from the lives of children during the Holocaust – both survivors and those who perished.

A special video featuring Holocaust survivors sharing about Judaism in the Tschebinia community

Tzipi Cohen, who survived the Holocaust thanks to conversations with her doll, parted with it after 72 years to donate it to a Holocaust research and documentation institute.

Over 60 years ago, a Nazi officer entered a synagogue in Lithuania and cruelly tore a piece from an ancient Torah scroll to use it as protective wrapping for his officer's certificate. Years later, he shared this secret with his son, a senior politician in Germany, who decided to return the sacred parchment. Moti Dotan, Head of the Lower Galilee Council, was the envoy for this mitzvah.

For the second time this year, a right-wing extremist group has vandalized a memorial to Holocaust victims in Athens. At the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, part of the 'Arbeit Macht Frei' sign was stolen.

A Polish Jewish family entrusted their Torah scroll to their Polish neighbors before they were deported to extermination camps. The scroll, used for household chores, was recently returned to Israel.

Reconciling the incomprehensible events of the Holocaust with the presence of a benevolent and omnipotent God. How can we perceive reality through our limited lens?

Seven years after the Columbia shuttle disaster, the full story of the tiny Torah scroll that Ilan Ramon carried with him on his ill-fated journey is revealed. From Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to the State of Israel - and then to space.