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Concert of Jewish Soul Music 27 Aug 2013 | 03:22 pm
Maestro Giora Feidman opens the Klezmer concert on the clarinet Echoing among the towering walls engraved with the names of over 5,000 Jewish communities destroyed or seriously damaged during the Hol...
Senior Artifacts Curator Honored 22 Aug 2013 | 04:54 pm
Haviva Peled-Carmeli (left) at the opening of the exhibition "Gathering the Fragments - Behind the Scenes of the Campaign to Rescue Personal Items from the Holocaust” Recently, Haviva Peled-Carmeli, ...
“It Feels Like a Miracle Rising From the Ashes” 15 Aug 2013 | 05:15 pm
Cynthia Wroclawski , Manager of the Shoah Victims' Names Recovery Project grants Jalen Schlosberg the "twinning" certificate honoring the memory of his 3rd cousin Haim Okham who was murdered in the Ho...
A Space for Memory 15 Aug 2013 | 12:21 pm
Avner Shalev discusses the unique architecture across the Yad Vashem campus "Yad Vashem is not a museum; it is a space for memory," said Avner Shalev, Chairman of Yad Vashem Directorate, at a special...
Police Forces' Roles in the Holocaust 4 Aug 2013 | 03:53 pm
Just published, the articles in Yad Vashem Studies 41:1 address people’s decisions and actions during the Shoah. Two authors published in this volume, Yuri Radchenko (Ukrainian auxiliary police in Kha...
"A Reservoir of Educational Talent" 1 Aug 2013 | 02:32 pm
By Richelle Budd Caplan, Director, European Department International School for Holocaust Studies Professional seminars at Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies are quite intense - ...
From the Isles of the Aegean Sea to Auschwitz 28 Jul 2013 | 05:30 pm
“The cars stopped and I saw bald people with striped suits… I told my mother I think they brought us to an insane asylum,” related Violette Mayo in testimony depicting her arrival from the Greek islan...
Art’s Journey: From Nazi Germany to Yad Vashem 22 Jul 2013 | 03:13 pm
Holocaust survivor and artist Ernest (Ernie) Meyer addresses family and friends during the donation ceremony Recently, Holocaust survivor and artist Ernest (Ernie) Meyer donated 17 artworks to Yad Va...
Holocaust Survivor Receives Books from Family Home through Grandson of Nazi Officer 11 Jul 2013 | 02:59 pm
Cynthia Wroclawski, Manager of the of the Yad Vashem Shoah Victims’ Names Recovery Project presents Moshe Hofstadter with his father’s books on behalf of Dr. Christoph Schlegel On Wednesday, July 10,...
Educators’ Summer Break Opens with Yad Vashem Conference 3 Jul 2013 | 05:41 pm
“It is essential that we successfully educate the next generations of students so that they continue to know the history and internalize the lessons of the Holocaust.” –Orli Gamzo Letova Some 1,200....
