Unknown hero saved thousands of Hungarian Jews
By Ian Cooper
(May 3) - Yitzhak Mayer was a 16-year-old Jewish boy living in Budapest when he and his parents were given El Salvador citizenship papers. But they never needed to use them. Both miracles were the work of one man who has remained virtually unknown to this day: George Montello.
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Yad Vashem 2001
By Gail Lichtman
 (May 1) -- With a growing interest in the Holocaust in Israel and abroad, Yad Vashem is investing heavily in a project to promote education --
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Nation's leaders recite 1,000 victims' names
By Nina Gilbert
(May 3) - The nation's leaders gathered at the Knesset yesterday for Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day's "Unto Every Person There is a Name" ceremony.
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Two presidents honor victims at Auschwitz
By Gil Hoffman and News Agencies
(May 3) - President Ezer Weizman and Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski led some 6,000 Jewish youth, elderly Holocaust survivors, and Poles along the three kilometer path from Auschwitz to Birkenau yesterday in the annual March of the Living.
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Israel remembers the Holocaust
By Tamar Hausman
(May 3) - All traffic and work came to a standstill yesterday across the country at 10 a.m. as sirens wailed for two minutes, marking Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day.
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Sharing life in the shadow of death
By Marilyn Henry
 (May 1) -- Yad Layeled, the Children's Holocaust Museum, has created a unique program for Holocaust education that pairs Israeli and American students --
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Sarid in Warsaw: "The earth screams out"
(May 2) - Education Minister Yossi Sarid represented the Israeli government at the official memorial ceremony at the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial last night. Here is the text of his speech:
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A survivor's story - triumph and family
By Tamar Hausman
(May 2) - Jews throughout the world will pause to remember the Holocaust today. Here, in Israel, sirens will sound at 10 a.m. Traffic will come to a halt and people will stand for two minutes in silent tribute to the memory of the murdered six million Jews.
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'Maybe you met my grandmother there?'
By Rachel Kremer
(May 2) -- On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Rachel Kremer writes about a small, skinny schoolgirl, who just wouldn't take no for an answer --
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