Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan meets Pope Francis in the Vatican
On Thursday, Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan has had a rare private audience with His Holiness Pope Francis in the Vatican.
Abramovich partners with Yad Vashem
February 23, 2022 by Simmy Allen
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Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem and Roman Abramovich announced today a new long-term strategic partnership aimed at strengthening Yad Vashem’s endeavours in the areas of Holocaust research and remembrance. Read more
German FM lays wreath for Holocaust dead
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has laid a wreath at a Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem ahead of talks with Israeli leaders during her first official visit to the region. Read more
A president’s personal Holocaust story
January 30, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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“Yehudit Berkovitch had just finished the first grade and was peacefully living with her parents and eight brothers and sisters in 1941 when the Nazis invaded her home country, Poland. Read more
165,800 Holocaust survivors live in Israel
Some 165,800 Holocaust Survivors live in Israel, 90% of whom are over 80, according to data published Wednesday by Israel’s Holocaust Survivors’ Rights Authority ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more
Claims Conference launches new innovative social media campaign: #DONTBEABYSTANDER
January 26, 2022 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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Gideon Taylor, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), announced today a new social media campaign in partnership with Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, called #DontBeABystander: Those Who Risked It All To Save A Life. Read more
Israeli Cabinet approves $9.2 million increase to Yad Vashem budget
Israel’s Cabinet on Sunday approved a proposal to increase the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum’s budget by 29 million shekels ($9.2 million), according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office. Read more
The International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
January 24, 2022 by Simmy Allen
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Yad Vashem will mark the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust through a range of events both in-person and online. Read more
Yad Vashem launches academy to train future leaders in Holocaust awareness
January 9, 2022 by Deborah Fineblum
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One hundred stalwart souls braved the chilling Jerusalem rain and influx of new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday to witness the rollout of what is designed to be the next big step for empowering Holocaust awareness for future generations. Read more
Angela Merkel visits Yad Vashem
October 11, 2021 by Simmy Allen
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Angela Merkel to visit Yad Vashem, her sixth visit
October 8, 2021 by Simmy Allen
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre on Sunday. Read more
Vandals paint Holocaust-denial messages at site of Auschwitz-Birkenau
October 7, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum condemned recent vandalism that took place at the site of the former Nazi concentration camp. Read more
Yad Vashem head in Kiev
October 6, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan is in Kiev attending the official memorial ceremony marking 80 years since the Babi Yar massacre. Read more
World War II letter connects families of Jewish survivors, Polish farmer who hid them
The descendants of two Holocaust survivors and the farmer who hid them from the Nazis in Poland have connected with the help of a recently discovered post-World War II letter. Read more
Dani Dayan appointed as Chairman of Yad Vashem
August 23, 2021 by Simmy Allen
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‘Restoring My Lost Childhood’: How children’s homes revived the youngest Holocaust survivors
January 24, 2021 by Deborah Fineblum
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It’s been 75 years, but Yaakov Guterman can still recall nearly everything about the nine months he lived in Zakopane, Poland. Read more
Gandel Philanthropy wins award in the 2020 Philanthropy Australia Awards
November 18, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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Philanthropy Australia has announced the Australian Philanthropy Awards for 2020 with Gandel Philanthropy and the Australian Foundation for Yad Vashem winning the Bolder Philanthropy category, for the Gandel Holocaust Studies Program for Australian Educators. Read more
A reunion on Zoom for Gandel Holocaust Program alumni
November 2, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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More than 230 alumni of the Gandel Holocaust Program alumni, representatives from Yad Vashem and special friends and dignitaries from around the world, gathered together on zoom, to share their Holocaust learnings, exchange ideas and initiatives, and re-commit to continue working to ensure the world ‘never forgets’. Read more
New online exhibition from Yad Vashem on the 80th anniversary of the beginning of WWII
August 30, 2019 by Simmy Allen
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Yad Vashem will mark the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War by uploading a new exhibition featuring personal stories depicting Jewish family life in Europe in 1939. Read more
The 75th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and International Holocaust Remembrance Day
August 15, 2019 by Simmy Allen
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Heads of State from Europe, North American and Australia have been invited to attend the Fifth World Holocaust Forum, taking place on 23 January 2020, at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Read more
Rivlin and Netanyahu attend wreath-laying ceremonies at Yad Vashem
May 3, 2019 by J-Wire Staff
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participated in the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes Remembrance Day wreath-laying ceremony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Read more
Yad Vashem seeks names of unknown victims
April 5, 2019 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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Since 1955, Yad Vashem has worked to fulfil its mandate to preserve the memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust by collecting their names, the ultimate representation of a person’s identity. Read more
A new campus for Yad Vashem
March 31, 2019 by Simmy Allen
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Yad Vashem is to build the new Shoah Heritage Campus which will house at its heart the new Shoah Heritage Collections Centre. Read more
Must Jews and Poles keep fighting about the Holocaust?
July 8, 2018 by Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org
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It’s never wise to get into an argument about the Holocaust with Yad Vashem…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more
Polish moves to rescind criminal penalty from Holocaust Law
June 28, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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The World Jewish Congress has welcomed Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s decision to recommend to parliament that it reopen discussions on its new Holocaust Law so as to rescind criminal penalty for suggesting that Poles bore some responsibility for the destruction of Polish Jewry. Read more
Prince William visits Yad Vashem
June 27, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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Prince William, The Duke of Cambridge, visited Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre as part of the first ever, official British royal family visit to Israel. Read more
Proposed Polish law “historical obfuscation”
January 29, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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The World Jewish Congress has strongly objected to a proposed new Polish law which would criminalise suggestions that Poland was responsible for Nazis crimes, calling it “an act of historical obfuscation and an attack on democracy.” Read more
Flashes of Memory
January 26, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem, has inaugurated a brand new exhibition entitled “Flashes of Memory – Photography during the Holocaust.” Read more
The Turnbulls visit Yad Vashem
Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his wife Lucy have visited Yad Vashem World Holocaust Centre in Jerusalem and reiterates “as we stand with Israel and the Jewish People”. Read more
Netanyahu: “We will never allow another Holocaust to take place”
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed the International Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Read more