The family of Irina Khoroshunova from Kiev, caught in the web of the Nazis’ “Operation Barbarossa,” an organized rout of the Jewish communities in Soviet-controlled countries beginning in the summer of 1941. Credit: Yad Vashem.

Six of the Bernstein siblings taken in Ylakiai, Lithuania, February 1933. Top row, from left: Arye-Leib, Ida and Benzion; bottom row, from left: Rivka, Menachem and Hinda. They were all murdered in the Holocaust except for Ida, who immigrated to Eretz...

Andrea Lubershane and her ‘Fiddler’ mezuzah.  Above, the outside of the scroll inside a  mezuzah’s case. Photo: Bill Motchan

A plaque outside Jerusalem’s Haji Adoniyah Synagogue, created by Jadid al-Islam (“new to Islam”) from Mashhad in 1902, reads, “The synagogue of Haji Adoniayahu, son of Aharon HaCohen of the Crypto-Jews of Mashhad, dedicated by the Aharon Cohen...

The Duxbury Athletic Complex at Duxbury High School in Duxbury, MA on March 23, 2021. The Anti-Defamation League is seeking an investigation into the football team's use of Holocaust-related terms. ( Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

On Friday, March 19, Rabbi Yossi Abenson of Chabad Central West End traveled around St. Louis to distribute shmurah matzah, a special variety that is guarded throughout its production to ensure that it does not come into contact with water. The recipient...

Turns out the Big Ben bell was made here at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London, and installed in 1858. Oli Scarff/Getty Images

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 09: Meyers Leonard #0 of the Miami Heat warms up before the game against the Washington Wizards at Capital One Arena on January 9, 2021 in Washington, DC. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is flanked by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, left, and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz at a joint news conference in Jerusalem, March 4, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Pool/AFP via Getty Images) 

A worker at the Israeli Sea Turtle Rescue Center cleans a sea turtle at their center in the Israeli coastal moshav of Mikhmoret, north of Tel Aviv on Feb. 21, 2021. Powerful winds and unusually high waves pummelled Israel's entire Mediterranean coastline...

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ - DECEMBER 22: Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle Zach Banner (72) prior to the National Football League game between the New York Jets and the Pittsburgh Steelers on December 22, 2019 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. (Photo...