Tag: Yad Vashem

At the forum, President Putin tried to diminish the damage done by the Soviet Union's prewar pact with the Nazis to divide Poland, and shifted the blame for the outbreak of World War II to Poland.

Her remains were buried in the Church of St Mary Magdalene above the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence called on the world to unite against growing anti-Semitism, and notably called out Iran for its Holocaust denial and threats to wipe out Israel.

Abbas dismissed as a "myth" and "fantastic lie" that six million Jews had died in the Holocaust.

The French president also threw a hissy fit against his Israeli security detail.

Against the backdrop of progress in the negotiations for normalization in the Gaza Strip, the meeting of some fifty world leaders at the Yad...

The film is based on letters written by 44 heads of state and world leaders in a unique book by Yad Vashem and the 5th World Holocaust Forum.

Putin’s press secretary told journalists on Monday, "We never announce such matters," and suggested it would be best to "wait and see."

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda was so insulted by not being asked to speak that he declined the invitation to attend the event altogether.

The assumption on the Israeli side is that Netanyahu would be obliged to support the narrative that the Russians are currently advancing against the Poles on the actions taken by the two countries in World War II.

Even pedestrian street crossing will not be allowed during the processions.

“I will be clear: We have decided that I as the Polish president will not participate in the event,” said Polish President Andrzej Duda, adding that not allowing him to publicly honor Polish victims of the Holocaust was equivalent to a “distortion of the historical truth.”

The program will include addresses from President Rivlin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President of France Emmanuel Macron, Prince Charles, and President Vladimir Putin.

"I deeply appreciate the recent remarks of Pope Francis, that anti-Jewish persecution is neither human nor Christian, as well as the statements of other Christian leaders against rising anti-Semitism."

“We are building a global coalition of leaders who can send a strong message that will resonate around the world."

In 2003 she compared conditions in Gaza to those in the Warsaw Ghetto, for which she was criticized by the chairman of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.

“What you did was seemingly so simple, but this act of grace shows the whole world how to fight the glorification of hatred and incitement against other people."

To date, Yad Vashem has recognized over 27,000 Righteous Among the Nations, 355 of whom are from Greece.

Chiune Sempo Sugihara issued between 2,100 and 3,500 transit visas and saved some 6,000 Jews, papers which later came to be known as “visas for life.”

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz are slated to meet Tuesday with the visiting members of the delegation of Arab journalists and bloggers.

“Soon there won’t be any survivors left to tell us about them. That is why it is so important that the original documents can speak. . ."

“Contrary to what occurred during the Holocaust, we are capable and intent on protecting ourselves, by ourselves."

Yad Vashem has so far been successful in documenting close to 4,800,000 of the six million Jewish victims.

The exhibition tells the stories of diplomats who risked their lives and the safety of their families to rescue hundreds and even thousands of Jews.

Most of the Jews – especially the children – died immediately because the water was freezing cold.

“Jewish life is blossoming again in Germany — an unexpected gift to us after the Shoah. But we are also witnessing a worrying anti-Semitism that threatens Jewish life in our country.”

Merkel said, “Germany has an uncompromising commitment to Israel, both because of our pasts but also because Israel is the only and strongest democracy in the region."

Merkel denied that she had conditioned her visit to Israel on the Netanyahu government not carrying out the evacuation of the illegal Bedouin settlement Khan al-Ahmar.

Merkel will lunch tomorrow afternoon with President Reuven Rivlin, and at 2 PM will meet with Netanyahu in private for a rebuke session.

Duterte also said despots who show their insanity "should be disposed of at the first instance."