Eight years ago — during the early hours of June 12 — a gunman opened fire at Pulse nightclub near downtown Orlando, killing 49 people. The annual Ringing of the 49 Bells ceremony took place Wednesday afternoon at downtown’s First United Methodist Church to honor the 49 people killed in the massacre. During the remembrance […]
Friday morning, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department will be honoring the heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice. Loved ones of the fallen and their fellow officers will gather for the annual Mecklenburg County Peace Officers Memorial. It is an event that CMPD does every year; however, this year feels a little different as they once […]
President Joe Biden condemned the “ferocious surge of antisemitism in America and around the world” during a ceremony to remember victims of the Holocaust at a time when the Hamas attack on Israel and controversy over the war in Gaza have sparked new waves of violence and hateful rhetoric toward Jews. “We’re at risk of […]
By Trevor Hunnicutt and James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When U.S. President Joe Biden arrives at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to honor 6 million Jews killed eight decades ago, his message will be as much about the present as the past. Biden will speak to the existential threats faced by Jewish people seven months […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to issue a forceful condemnation of antisemitism during a Tuesday ceremony to remember victims of the Holocaust at a time when the Hamas attack on Israel and controversy over the war in Gaza have sparked new waves of violence and hateful rhetoric toward Jews. Biden’s remarks at […]
Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted a remembrance march to honour the victims of Nazi atrocities at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The demonstrators chanted slogans at the marchers, unfurling Palestinian flags and banners reading “stop genocide”. Survivors of the Holocaust and the Oct 7 Hamas attacks on Israel took part in the march on Monday, […]
Israel is on Monday commemorating the six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Holocaust, as the Palestinian Islamist Hamas group holds more than 100 hostages from Israel. On Monday morning, sirens blared for two minutes across the country to commemorate the catastrophe. Cars stopped on the streets and […]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will deliver the keynote address at an annual ceremony commemorating the Holocaust on May 7, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced on Wednesday. Biden’s remarks will take place during a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum ceremony marking the Days of Remembrance on Capitol Hill next Tuesday. Jean-Pierre told reporters that […]
Antisemitism has been on the rise in Kentucky and across the U.S. since 2016. We are appreciative that Governor Andy Beshear has taken this trend seriously by establishing the Kentucky Antisemitism Task Force. Furthermore, we commend the foresight of the Kentucky General Assembly for passing the Ann Klein and Fred Gross Holocaust Education Act in […]
The ongoing anti-Israel demonstrations at elite U.S. colleges and universities are exactly what happened in Germany in the 1920s, just years before Nazis took over the country, according to the head of the Holocaust museum. Dani Dayan, the chairman of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, wrote a letter to Columbia University President Minouche […]
Residents arrived to honor the children, reflecting on their own children and grandchildren at home. Monique Moody was feeling the return of emotions from when her friend lost his own daughter in a house fire years ago. “They shouldn’t have been here,” Monique Moody said. “It’s not their fault that they were, but the fact […]
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Jews and Muslims from Bosnia and abroad gathered in Srebrenica on Saturday to jointly observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day and to promote compassion and dialogue amid the Israel-Hamas war. The gathering was organized by the center preserving memory of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust — the massacre in the […]