Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion dedicated a neighborhood square to the memory of Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from the clutches of the Nazis, including tens of bochurim from Tomchei Temimim, who would eventually set up the yeshiva in Shanghai, China • Full Story, Photos

On a special trip around Europe, French Chabad photographer Mordechai Lubecki paid a solemn visit to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp and museum, a dark place that facilitated the murder r”l of countless Yidden who were killed al kiddush Hashem • Photos

During a series of historic events commemorating the Holocaust last week in the ‘Jewish Shtetel’ of Chernivtsi, Ukraine, the regional governor made a surprise dramatic announcement: the ‘Jewish House’ nationalized during the Communist regime will be returned to the community and serve as a warm home for education and enrichment programs • Full Story, Photos

On June 23 the Jewish community of Volgograd held a funeral ceremony for Jewish civilians shot by the Nazis during the battle of Stalingrad in August 1942. Most of the victims were children, the youngest was only eight months old. Zalman Yoffe, Chief Rabbi of Volgograd and the Volgograd region, read the memorial prayer, and everyone who wished placed stones on the grave, as required by the Jewish tradition • Full Story, Photos

Hundreds of strangers turned up in freezing conditions for the funeral of a hero Holocaust survivor after a rabbi’s plea on Facebook. Zale Newman had visited 85-year-old Eddie Ford over the last seven months at a hospital in Toronto where he was suffering from cancer • Full Story

More than seven decades after the liberation of the Nazi death camps, the remains of six unidentified victims of the Holocaust are to be given a Jewish burial. The service will take place on 20 January, and is expected to be attended by Holocaust survivors • Full Story

The Hungarian government announced last week that the ownership and management of the new Holocaust museum, scheduled to open in Budapest next year, will be transferred to EMIH – Hungarian Jewish Federation in Hungary, affiliated with Chabad • Full Story

A Holocaust-era Torah scroll saved by a 14-year-old boy will be on display this week at a Colorado Springs synagogue to commemorate the upcoming 80th anniversary of attacks that preceded Nazi Germany’s killing of 6 million Jews during World War II • Full Story

During a recent meeting with recruits in the current Port Authority Police Academy class, Deputy Inspector James McSorley asked them if they knew about the Holocaust. McSorley was surprised when only about one-third of the class raised their hands • Full Story

Why me? Why did Mengele save me when 1.5 million other Jewish children were killed? Rabbi Nissan Mangel was just 10 years old when he came to Auschwitz-Birkenau • Watch

Lubavitchers were on hand at the 30th March of the Living in Poland, to help participants put on Tefillin and recite a prayer in memory of the 6 million Yidden who perished in the Holocaust • Photos

Despite international criticism, a new “Holocaust law,” criminalizing the mention of “Polish death camps” and talk of Polish collaboration with the Nazis, passed both houses of Poland’s parliament and is set to be signed into law by President Andrzej Duda • Full Story

A large group of students traveled with their Shluchim to visit some of concentration camps in Auschwitz. They heard from Dov Landau, a Holocaust survivor, who gave a first-hand account of the horrors of the camps • Photos

A Holocaust survivor and a South Florida woman are sharing their story after she captured the frightening moments when he was saved from an oncoming train, Tuesday night • Full Story

Three teens pleaded guilty to criminal damaging charges for twisting a large decorative menorah in the front yard of an Arizona family’s home into a swastika. The teens, who were arrested in March and charged as juveniles in the December incident in a residential neighborhood in Chandler, pleaded guilty on Thursday in Maricopa County Court • Full Story

While white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups have rallied across the country in recent weeks, a newly formed Bozeman nonprofit plans to build a museum that it hopes will both provide a history lesson and warn of the dangers of repeating the past • Full Story

Local teens gathered to listen to Holocaust Survivor Murray Goldfinger as he shared his miraculous survival and his experience in the concentration camps. His invaluable message to the JTeens was that by embracing their Judaism they will ensure a strong Jewish tomorrow and urged them to create a positive, meaningful and loving future. JTeens is a program of Chabad of the Shore, NJ • Photos

We can not reverse the Holocaust but we CAN choose how to respond to it. We CAN preserve and strengthen awareness — honoring the memory of the millions who were slain and reducing the chances of it happening again, God forbid! • Watch

A video of an elderly Hasidic Holocaust survivor returning to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland and emotionally recounting his harrowing experiences there has gone viral on Facebook, drawing hundreds of thousands of views in just a few days • Full Story

Visited Auschwitz-Birkenau today with my Zaidy and two cousins. It was incredible to be with him as he relived his experience. My Zaidy chokes up and says: “My mother didn’t let go of me. There’s nothing like a Jewish mother, never abandoning her child” • Full Story, Photos

On a current trip visiting Auschwitz, holocaust survivor Rabbi Nissen Mangel related to his grandson, Leibel Mangel “My father believed that we would be saved until we came here to Bratislava. He walked over to the window, tore up a stack of bills and threw them outside…that’s when I knew we were in trouble.” From the Facebook page of Leibel Mangel.

Earlier today, Friday, as people around the word are remembering the holocaust, a special event took place in Kharkov, Ukraine. A holocaust survivor put on Tefillin for the first time in his life, at the age of 92 • Additional Photo

The story of Rabbi Nissen Mangel’s miraculous survival from the hands of Mengele was recently videotaped by Jewish Sparks. Mengele was the notorious Nazi doctor who conducted hideous medical experiments in the concentration camps. • Watch

With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Rachel Zippel, OB”M, of Milan, Italy. She was a holocaust survivor and matriarch of a large family that includes many Lubavitchers and Shluchim all over the world. She was 90 years old • Full Story

One man is 101 years old. Others are in their 80s and 90s and arrived in wheelchairs, with a walker, or leaning for support on children who are themselves past middle age • Full Story