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By Reuters Staff Slideshow ( 3 images ) WARSAW (Reuters) - The March of the Living, an annual event that brings together Holocaust survivors and family members at the former Auschwitz death camp, was held online for a second consecutive year on Thursday due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants usually stage a march at the site in southern Poland but restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus have made that impossible. Nevertheless, organisers and participants say it is important that the event goes ahead. “We have no other choice,” said 84-year-old Holocaust survivor Tzi...

Lily Ebert speaking on Yom HaShoah Equally poignant was the testimony of Auschwitz survivor and one of ‘The Boys’ Ike Alterman who gave his testimony to his granddaughter Danni and told how he rebuilt his life and made his home in Manchester. Amongst those to speak at the event were Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, the actress and campaigner against antisemitism Tracy Ann-Oberman and Sharon Bar-Li, the deputy ambassador of Israel. Thousands lit candles for Yom HaShoah Rabbi Mirvis spoke powerfully of the need to continue to speak about the “lessons of the Shoah” which he said were “perha...

Israel comes to standstill to honour Holocaust victims AFP 3 hrs ago AFP © Ahmad GHARABLI Israelis pause by their vehicles on the main highway leading to Jerusalem on April 8 as sirens wail across Israel for two minutes marking the annual day of remembrance for the six million Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide Israel briefly came to a standstill on Thursday with the morning bustle halted for two minutes at 10:00 am (0700 GMT) as sirens blared to honour the victims of the Holocaust.  In an annual ritual, pedestrians froze in place and drivers stopped and stood in silenc...

Once the Nazi party came to power in Germany in 1933, leaders immediately set about making good on their pledges to “Aryanize” the country, segregating and marginalizing the Jewish population. The Nazi government encouraged the boycott of Jewish businesses, which were were daubed with the Star of David or the word “Jude” — Jew. Propaganda posters and films suggested Jews were “vermin,” comparing them to rats and insects, while new laws were passed to restrict all aspects of Jews' lives. Charlotte Knobloch, who was born in Munich in 1932, recalls in her video message her neighbor...

Updated: 08/04/2021 Israelis stood in silence on Thursday as a two-minute siren wailed across the country in remembrance of the Holocaust's 6 million Jewish victims. Public buses and cars stopped on the streets and highways, and pedestrians stood in place in memory of those killed in the Nazi genocide. The annual memorial is one of the most somber days in the Israeli calendar, marking the anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the most significant act of Jewish resistance against Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.