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Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration

Jan 26, 5:00 pm

Boston University Hillel, Boston

Free

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day: “Remember This” Film Screening

Jan 26, 4:00 pm

The Vilna Shul, Boston's Center for Jewish Culture, Boston

$25

Staged Reading of “Memoriam” by Noga Flaishon

Jan 26, 1:00 pm

Temple Israel, Boston

Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

Jan 23, 7:00 pm

Temple Israel, Boston

Free

HBI Conversations Series Featuring Kerry Wallach

Jan 22, 7:00 pm

Free

International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration

Jan 22, 6:30 pm

Rupert A. Nock Middle School, Newburyport

closeup of a ragged jewish badge and a yellowish piece of paper with the word yizkor, remember in hebrew and the name of a prayer in memory of deceased beloveds, on a gray rustic wooden surface

Free

Catholic and Jewish Reactions to Antisemitism in Boston

Jan 22, 6:00 pm

Free

Voices of the Warsaw Ghetto

Jan 16, 6:30 pm

The Vilna Shul, Boston's Center for Jewish Culture, Boston

$25

Hawaii: Virtual Jewish Community Tour

Jan 15, 7:00 pm

Free

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1/25/2024 Top Pick

State House Observes Holocaust Remembrance Day

This year’s commemoration theme is “Recognizing the Extraordinary Courage of Victims and Survivors of the Holocaust.” It comes at a time of rising antisemitism across the globe.

By Maddie KhawFor The Boston Globe

1/25/2024 Top Pick

What International Holocaust Remembrance Day Means in 2024

By Rich TenorioFor FaceJewishHate.org

1/9/2024 Top Pick

The Boston Holocaust Museum Will Make Sure We Never Forget

By Jeff SaperstoneFor NBC10 Boston

Images of the Tomb of the Patriarchs (left) and the Tomb of Rachel in the women’s section Courtesy of The Vilna Shul

12/6/2023 Top Pick

This Boston Synagogue Looks Like a New England Church

The hundred-year-old Vilna Shul is the only one in the region that has retained its folk art-painted walls.

By Jennifer A. SternFor The Forward

11/21/2023 Top Pick

Touro Synagogue Sees Increase in Visitors

As the war between Israel and Hamas continues, people are finding solace at this 18th-century synagogue in Newport, R.I.

By Brittany BowkerFor The Boston Globe

11/2/2023 Top Pick

A Comic Book About an Old War—and a New One

By Arnon Shorr

‘Resistance’ documents stories of Jewish people who fought back during the Holocaust

10/30/2023 Top Pick

“Resistance”: Jews Who Fought Back During the Holocaust

The documentary will premiere at the 35th annual Boston Jewish Film Festival.

By Erin TrahanFor The Boston Globe

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