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09/29/2026

Today marks 85 years since the Babi Yar massacre - one of the largest mass shootings during the Holocaust. Over two days on September 29-30, 1941, more than 33,000 Jews were shot and murdered by the Germans and their collaborators in a ravine outside of Kyiv.

We need to tell the story of the “Holocaust by bullets.” Visit www.AboutHolocaust.org to know the facts.

09/24/2026

We are saddened to learn of the passing of Holocaust survivor Julia Wallach at the age of 101. Several years ago, she participated in the Lest We Forget campaign, organized by our affiliate, CRIF, in France, and shared her story with the world. May her memory be a blessing.

Julia Wallach escaped the July 1942 Vel d’Hiv roundup in Paris, when thousands of foreign-born Jews were arrested. That day, her mother, who was a Polish Jew, was arrested.

For months afterwards, she lived in hiding with her father and uncle, until they were arrested in 1943 when their neighbors betrayed them.

Julia was sent to the Drancy transit camp and then deported to Auschwitz on convoy number 55. She was 18 years old. She miraculously survived the death marches and returned home an orphan after the war.

She met and married her husband, who was also a Holocaust survivor, and they had two children and rebuilt a life. Her husband never spoke about what he experienced. Julia said it was her grandson, Frankie, who encouraged her to start giving witness, and she wrote a testimony called “God was on vacation.” She said the fear and trauma continued with her throughout her life.

For Julia Wallach, .

09/15/2026

On September 15, 1935, N**i Germany passed the Nuremberg Laws. The laws severely restricted Jewish rights and freedoms. They institutionalized racism, and prepared the ground that would eventually lead to the Holocaust.

The Nuremberg Laws are a lesson for history, showing how quickly hatred can be entrenched into policy and oppression of minorities.

Learn the facts at www.AboutHolocaust.org

09/14/2026

“My revenge on the N**is is that they lost, and we have the State of Israel.”

Yehuda Widawski, a Polish-born Holocaust and Auschwitz survivor, who was the oldest living Holocaust survivor in Israel, passed away during Rosh Hashanah, at the age of 107. His life was one of determination and revival, and his memory is both an inspiration and a blessing.

Widawski was born in July 1919, and during his youth, the family moved to Łódź. With WWII and the German occupation, the family was forced into the ghetto. They worked in textiles, as they had before the war, and employed people inside the ghetto and also ran a soup kitchen from their home.

Yehuda, his parents, and siblings were deported to Auschwitz in August 1944, when the ghetto was liquidated. Only Yehuda and his younger brother Jehoszua lived, and after eight days in Auschwitz, they were transferred to a forced labor camp in Friedland. “I relive it, not just every day, but every hour,” Widawski told Yad Vashem about the murder of his family at Auschwitz.

Widawski returned to Łódź after the war, rebuilt his textile factory, married, and had a son. They immigrated to Israel in 1950. Returning to visit Poland in the 1970s, Widawski undertook a major project to research, archive, and restore the Łódź Jewish cemetery. He helped identify and mark more than 3,000 graves. Widawski participated in the official ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the 75th anniversary of the liquidation of the Łódź ghetto.

Photo (C) Yad Vashem

09/07/2026

Mazal tov to Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman, who celebrates her 88th birthday today!

Tova is a child survivor of Auschwitz. In recent decades, she has become an indefatigable advocate for education and memory. WJC was proud to have her support for the campaign for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in which she shared her testimony with us. We wish her ad 120!

“We have an obligation. Not only to remember, which is very, very important. But also to warn. And to teach that hatred only begets more hatred,” Tova said in 2025, addressing the official commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz at the site of the former death camp.

“Instead, our revenge has been to build a strong Jewish country and raise our families in peace.”

Tova Friedman was born in 1938 in Gdynia, Poland. She was five and a half years old when she was deported to Auschwitz in 1944. Her head was shaved. She was tattooed. She survived hunger and disease. She was there the day the death camp was liberated in January 1945.

Tova and her parents emigrated to the US when she was 12 years old. She became a therapist, and went on to publish her book “The Daughter of Auschwitz,” in 2022.

09/01/2026

87 years ago, the Second World War began with N**i Germany’s invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939.

It led to the murder of millions of people, the Holocaust, the gas chambers, and a redrawing of international borders and the world order. It was a day that forever changed Jewish and European history.

Know the facts about the Holocaust at http://AboutHolocaust.org, created by WJC in partnership with UNESCO to bring reliable facts to social media users.

08/08/2026

On August 8, 1942, the WJC's representative in Geneva Gerhart M. Riegner dictated a telegram to US diplomats about Hitler's plans to exterminate the Jews of Europe.

Riegner's warning was tragically not heeded. By the time it was fully understood what was happening behind N**i-occupied Europe, it was too late to help millions of Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

The horrific consequences of that apathy and inaction are not just a matter of history. They continue to serve as a warning for our future that we must not ignore.

Visit www.AboutHolocaust.org to know the facts.

08/07/2026

Holocaust survivor Marģers Vestermanis, a historian, educator, and the founder of the Jews in Latvia museum, passed away earlier this week at the age of 100. May his memory be a blessing.

Marģers Vestermanis was born in September 1925 in Riga. He was imprisoned in the Riga ghetto during the N**i occupation and lost most of his family members during the Holocaust.

After the war, he dedicated his life to researching the history of the Latvian Jewish community and the Holocaust, preserving Jewish memory, and strengthening society's historical memory. During the Soviet period, Vestermanis’ research was suppressed by the authorities. It was only in the post-Soviet period that he was able to establish a museum in Riga dedicated to Jewish history and was able to publish books and scholarly articles on Jewish and Holocaust history in Latvia.

08/04/2026

On August 4, 1944, Anne Frank, her family, and the others hiding in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam were discovered and arrested by the Gestapo, who had been tipped off that Jews were being hidden in the building. Anne’s last diary entry was dated just a few days before, August 1.

The Frank family was first sent to the Westerbork concentration camp in the Netherlands. Several weeks later, they were shipped to the Auschwitz death camp. As the Soviet army was approaching from the east, Anne and her older sister Margot were moved to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany that fall. The two sisters both caught typhus and died in the camp in February 1945. By the end of the war in Europe, Otto Frank was the only survivor of the eight people who hid in the Secret Annex.

The Frank family’s hideaway, located at Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam, opened as a museum in 1960 as the Anne Frank House museum.

Visit our website, www.AboutHolocaust.org, to know the facts and help counter Holocaust denial and distortion.

07/23/2026

On July 22-23, 1944, the Majdanek concentration camp was liberated by the Soviet army. Between 95,000-130,000 people died or were killed in the camp throughout the years it was operated by the Germans.

The camp was constructed by the N**is in October 1941, near the city of Lublin in occupied Poland. It quickly became a forced labor camp within the framework of Operation Reinhard, the N**is’ plan for the mass murder of Jews in the ‘Generalgouvernement’ (German-occupied Poland).

The first prisoners were brought to Majdanek in December 1941: 150 Jews, seized off the streets of Lublin. A few months later, Polish prisoners arrived, along with Jews from the Lublin ghetto. The SS constructed gas chambers at Majdanek to exterminate prisoners who were deemed unfit to continue forced labor.

Majdanek was the first major N**i concentration camp to be liberated in July 1944. It was captured virtually intact. All the evidence was there to see. It is imperative that we don't let historical truth be distorted or manipulated. Learn the facts about the Holocaust at www.AboutHolocaust.org

Photos (C) Dennis Ewert/WJC

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