Yad Vashem
Released hostage Omer Shemtov.
November 20, 2025, 8:00 am
The responsibility of bearing witness
Telling a survivor's story is a privilege, but perhaps more importantly it is also a responsibility.
By Carly Adno
Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela and Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway during an aid mission with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, October 2025. Credit: NBEC
October 28, 2025, 4:22 pm
‘Apartheid was racial separation – Israel is nothing like that’
Nelson Mandela’s granddaughters tell Jewish News why they reject the apartheid label and what they found amid Israel and Gaza’s heartbreak.
By Annabel Sinclair
The IDF General Staff at Yad Vashem. Photo: IDF
April 24, 2025, 11:09 am
Israeli military marks Yom Hashoah
"From the ashes and destruction, the State of Israel arose, and out of it grew the IDF."
By AJN STAFF
The windows of a Jewish business smashed on Kristallnacht, 1938.
November 7, 2024, 11:29 am
Sudden catastrophe
The destruction and terror would later be recognised as the harbinger of the Shoah.
By AJN STAFF
Speaker of the House of Representatives Milton Dick is part of a delegation visiting Israel. Photo: Facebook
July 25, 2023, 6:47 am
‘Historic, multi-partisan delegation’
"Our delegation was welcomed to the Knesset by Speaker Amir Ohana. I was honoured to lay a wreath at the Gal-Ed Memorial and signed the guest book on behalf of the Australian Parliament."
By AJN STAFF
Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau.
July 19, 2023, 7:16 am
Rabbi Lau in Australia
Brought here by high-profile business magnate Joseph Gutnick, Rabbi Lau is also visiting Melbourne and will speak at a major communal event at Chabad House of Caulfield tonight.
By AJN STAFF
June 13, 2023, 7:24 am
A link to the past to look to the future
Tulips for Breakfast is set in Amsterdam during WWII, during which the main character Adelena lives in hiding. She has been left in the care of a non-Jew as her parents believed that was her only chance of survival.
By Jessica Abelsohn
Eighty-year-old blonde baby doll Inge on display at the Paul-Loebe-Haus parliamentary building in Berlin. Photo: Julien Gathelier/AFP
February 2, 2023, 9:20 am
Israel loans Holocaust survivors’ heirlooms to Germany
"The pyjama that she's wearing is the pyjama that I wore on Kristallnacht."
By DEBORAH COLE
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
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