This week, The Wall Street Journal’s front page featured Rabbi Mendy Carlebach, Administrator of Chabad House of Rutgers University as he accompanied Mr. Edward Mosberg, renowned Holocaust survivor and international speaker at the March of the Living in Auschwitz, Poland • Full Story, Photos

The Holocaust Survivors Initiative, to be administered by the New York State Office for the Aging, will fund programs that provide health care and other services to 40,000 state residents who are victims of Nazi genocide, 40% of whom are in poverty, said Hochul • Full Story

An emotional and touching ceremony took place last week in the courtyard of the Yekaterinburg Grand Synagogue and JCC. Stones were laid for the construction of a Holocaust Memorial Monument and tribute to the Red Army for their part in fighting the Nazis and liberating the death camps. Ten stones collected from mass graves across Europe will serve as the foundation for the future monument • Full Story, Photos

On January 27, International Holocause Remembrance Day, representatives of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine, Chabad’s umbrella organization in the Post-Soviet nation, hosted a commemoration ceremony at Babi Yar in Kiev, the site of one of the most horrendous massacres in all of World War II. Director of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine Rabbi Meir Stambler, Deputy Director Rabbi Rafael Rutman, together with Mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko, diplomat Oliver Varhelyi, and Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine, Estonian diplomat Matti Maasikas visited the site for the ceremony commemorating the victims of the Holocaust • Full Story, Photos

At Moscow’s ‘Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center’ Rabbi Berl Lazar, Russia’s Senior Shliach and Chief Rabbi, flanked by fellow Shliach Rabbi Alexander Boroda, Chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS, Chabad’s umbrella organization in Russia, hosted a delegation from the Russian government to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Present in the delegation was Mr. Vyacheslav Volodin, the current speaker of Russia’s Duma, the lower house of its parliament • Photos, Video

Germany to pay some $1,400 per person to dispense emergency COVID funding for 150,000 Jews persecuted during the Holocaust • Full story