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A teddy bear is displayed in a textiles conservation lab during the inauguration of The Moshal Shoah Legacy Campus and The David and Fela Shapell Family Collections Center, at Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, Monday, July 8, 2024. Israel's national Holocaust museum opened a new conservation facility in Jerusalem, which will preserve, restore, and store the more than 45,000 artifacts and works of art in a vast new building, including five floors of underground storage. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Israel’s Holocaust memorial launches new conservation facility

By Shlomo Mor and Maya Alleruzzo - Associated Press

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. Israeli officials were outraged Wednesday over U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' comment that the deadly Hamas attack on southern Israel “did not happen in a vacuum,” calling it justification for terrorism. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Israel accuses U.N. chief of justifying terrorism for saying Hamas attack didn’t happen in ‘vacuum’

By Amy Teibel - Associated Press

Jewish people visit the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp after the March of the Living annual observance, in Oswiecim, Poland, April 28, 2022. Israel’s national Holocaust memorial has criticized a new agreement renewing Israeli school trips to Poland, saying it recommends a number of “problematic sites” that distort history. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Israeli Holocaust memorial criticizes deal with Poland

By Josef Federman and Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

This photo released by Yad Vashem, World Holocaust Remembrance Center, shows German Nazis carry Jewish books, presumably for burning, during Kristallnacht intake most likely in the town of Fuerth, Germany on Nov. 10, 1938. The photos were taken by Nazi photographers during the pogrom in the city of Nuremberg and the nearby town of Fuerth. They wound up in the possession of a Jewish American serviceman who served in Germany during World War II. His descendants,donated the album to Yad Vashem. (Yad Vashem via AP)

Newly discovered photos show Nazi Kristallnacht up close

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

President Joe Biden participates in a wreath laying ceremony at the Hall of Remembrance of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. (Debbie Hill/Pool via AP)

Biden visits the Holocaust memorial in Israel

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Wreaths placed at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day marking the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi dear camp Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Exhibits, online events to mark 2022 observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Holocaust survivor who led Yad Vashem memorial dies at 94

Associated Press

FILE - In this 1943 file photo, a group of Polish Jews are led away for deportation by German SS soldiers during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in the Jewish quarter. A Warsaw court is scheduled to deliver a verdict Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 in a closely watched libel case in which Polish national dignity and the independence of Holocaust research are said to be at stake. (AP Photo, file)

Yad Vashem concerned over Polish case against researchers

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 2, 2018, file photo, director Roman Polanski appears at an international film festival, where he promoted his latest film, &quot;Based on a True Story,&quot; in Krakow, Poland. Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski returned to Poland, the country of his youth, and paid tribute on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020 to a Polish couple who took him in and protected him when he was a child, saving him from the Holocaust. (AP Photo/File)

Roman Polanski honors Poles who saved him from the Holocaust

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Chairman of Israel’s Yad Vashem to step down after 27 years

Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron, center, visits the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. Dozens of world leaders have descended upon Jerusalem for the largest-ever gathering focused on commemorating the Holocaust and combating modern-day anti-Semitism. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israel’s Holocaust museum apologizes for inaccurate videos

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Polish President Andrzej Duda, left, and Archbishop of Warsaw Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz attend the 12th annual Epiphany procession in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. Epiphany, the 12th night of Christmas, marks the day the three kings visited Christ. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish president boycotts Holocaust remembrance in Israel

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Dortmund donates $1.1M to Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial

Associated Press

Italian Interior Minister and Deputy-Premier Matteo Salvini, wears a yarmulke during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Netanyahu hails Italy’s Salvini as ‘great friend of Israel’

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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after making joint statements, Monday, May 22, 2017, in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump mourns at Israel’s Holocaust memorial: ‘Savage crime against God and his children’

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Rehabilitating war figure

Rehabilitating war figure

Polish girl’s diary reveals ‘torment’ before death at Auschwitz