Yad Vashem

Effi Eitam in March 2017. Photo: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90

November 26, 2020, 12:00 am

Outrage over proposed Holocaust memorial head

'The reputation of Yad Vashem as a world-renowned centre of teaching, research and remembrance will be eroded and diminished'.

By Gareth Narunsky

January 23, 2020, 9:21 am

‘Never again’

As a community, it behoves us to unite and condemn all forms of antisemitism. And to strive to ensure that "never again" means "never again".

By AJN STAFF

David Hurley meeting with Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday. Photo: Israel GPO

January 23, 2020, 12:00 am

‘To honour and to learn’

Australia's Governor-General David Hurley and his wife Linda have arrived in Israel ahead of a major event commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

By AJN STAFF

Daniel Andrews talking with Holocaust survivor Ana de Leon at the Gandel
Holocaust Education Conference in 2019. Photo: Peter Haskin

May 30, 2019, 3:00 am

Learning lessons of survival

Eleven Holocaust survivors movingly shared their testimonies at the inaugural Gandel Holocaust Education Conference, which was officially opened by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews.

By Rebecca Davis

The Shoes on the Danube memorial. Photo: Julie Szego/AJN file

January 17, 2019, 12:01 am

Divers search Danube for holocaust victims

NEWS that divers from Israeli search-and-rescue organisation ZAKA are this week searching the River Danube in Hungary for the remains of Holocaust victims shot nearly 75 years ago has been welcomed by survivors in Australia.

Participants wearing kippahs at a rally in Berlin, April 25, 2018. Photo: Carsten Koall/Getty Images

November 29, 2018, 12:00 am

Concern about European poll results

A CNN poll of Europeans in seven countries found more than one-third said they have no substantial knowledge of the Holocaust.

Nic Naitanui (front row) with the Tel Aviv Cheetahs AFL team in Israel recently.

November 2, 2018, 6:31 pm

AFL player Nic Naitanui’s epic Israel experience

West Coast Eagles player Nic Naitanui has returned from an inspiring eight-day visit to Israel, where he toured Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Beersheba and met up with the Tel Aviv Cheetahs AFL team.

By Aaron Fetter

From left: Rejhan Prohic, Aviva Fox and Egon Sonnenschein with the Righteous accolade bestowed by Yad Vashem.

August 9, 2018, 12:01 am

Muslim saviours honoured

FOUR members of a Muslim Bosnian family have been recognised by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations for hiding Sydney resident Aviva Fox during the Holocaust.

By Gareth Narunsky

Millington's grave at Sidcup Cemetery in Britain.

August 2, 2018, 12:01 am

A righteous Tasman?

A BRITISH archivist is campaigning for an Australian mariner who is said to have saved Greek Jews during the Holocaust to be considered for recognition by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations.

By Peter Kohn

Survivors at the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne protesting against Facebook. From left: Joseph De Haan, David Prince, Abe Goldberg and Lusia Haberfeld. Photo: Peter Haskin

July 26, 2018, 12:01 am

Facebook’s shame

FACEBOOK chief Mark Zuckerberg has been sharply criticised by Australian Shoah survivors after saying Holocaust denial should not be barred on the social media giant.

By Peter Kohn

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in Poland.

July 12, 2018, 12:00 am

Yad Vashem slams deal with Poland

The Polish government hasn’t really backed down on its Holocaust law, and it is “trying to literally change history”, Yad Vashem historian Havi Dreifuss has told The AJN.

By Nathan Jeffay

Holocaust survivors protesting in front of the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv in February. Photo: Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP/Getty Images

July 5, 2018, 12:00 am

Poland backtracks on Holocaust law

Benjamin Netanyahu said that by securing the Polish concession, his team "upheld our prime duty to ensure the historic truth about the Holocaust."

By Nathan Jeffay

Prince William laying a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem. Photo:
EPA/Abir Sultan

June 28, 2018, 12:12 pm

Prince: ‘Never forget’

THE 70-year taboo on members of the British Royal Family officially visiting Israel was finally broken this week as an RAF plane with Prince William on board touched down at Ben Gurion Airport.

Mahmoud Abbas addressing the Palestinian National Council. Photo: Flash90

May 10, 2018, 12:00 am

Abbas’ apology over his Shoah comments rejected

The Palestinian President has apologised "if people were offended" by his claims that the "social function" that Jews took on in Europe was the cause of massacres, including the Holocaust.

By Nathan Jeffay

Alpha Cheng. Photo: AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts

May 7, 2018, 12:00 am

Cheng shares his Israel inspiration

Courage to Care NSW ambassador Alpha Cheng – whose father Curtis was tragically shot dead in 2015 by a teenage terrorist outside Parramatta Police Station - revealed he gained inspiration and strength to become a public campaigner for social harmony after a life-changing visit to Israel.

By Shane Desiatnik