As the pro-Palestinian group 'Kufiyas in Buchenwald' is blocked from demonstrating outside the notorious Nazi concentration camp ahead of Yom Hashoah, a debate about the site’s history resurfaces

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On her first Holocaust Remembrance Day since realizing her dream of immigrating, Penina Zeitchik aims to gather with grandchildren also living in Israel to share what her family experienced in the war

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On Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, the author of 'Zaidy's Band' speaks about the little-known brave Jewish servicemen who faced down the Nazis, fighting for their brethren

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PM says continent 'afflicted by deep moral weakness,' Israel now defending it; Herzog urges national unity, eulogizing fallen soldier whose grandmother survived Bergen-Belsen

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As the Zikaron BaSalon program grows to over 2 million participants worldwide, former hostages and their families learn from survivors how telling their stories can aid in rehabilitation

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Over a quarter are older than 90, two-thirds are women; world Jewish population has still not recovered to numbers it had in 1933, according to Central Bureau of Statistics

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Around a dozen survivors, aged 90-100, will travel to Poland though most Israeli delegates forced to cancel; march to be led by survivors of attacks on Jews; former hostages to light torch

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Yad Vashem announces that the live broadcast of this year's event, under the theme 'The Jewish Family During the Holocaust,' has been replaced by a taped program, without giving a reason

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