Tag: Yad Vashem

Prince William is making the first ever official visit by a member of the British royal family to Israel.

The new Yad Vashem exhibition tells how Jews yearned for Eretz Israel during and immediately following the Shoah in the years 1933-1948.

Rumors began spreading last night that Yad Vashem took down that famous photo,

The names of Henri and Emilie Lamberty will be added to the Wall of Honor in the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem.

"A major challenge today is to ensure that young people will know about the Holocaust, will find it significant, and will be able to process it appropriately."

Iran warned Israel Wednesday that it would exact retribution for a missile strike on a Syrian air base earlier in the week in which at least seven Iranian military officials were killed.

The ceremony featured torch lighting and a traditional memorial service, including the recitation of prayers for the departed.

“The foremost terrorist-sponsoring regime in the world, in our region and beyond is Iran.”

To date, Yad Vashem has recognized some 26,500 Righteous Among the Nations from over 50 nations worldwide.

One of the first questions the Poles asked the Nazis, their new rulers, was if it was permitted to kill the Jews.

Restrictions on statements... regarding the Polish people's direct or indirect complicity with the crimes committed... during the Holocaust are a serious distortion.

“At Yad Vashem, there is an avenue along which there are trees which represent the Righteous Among the Nations. But one tree is missing . . ."

Ahead of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Saturday, January 27) I spoke to Edward Jacobs who, with his partner Dr. Michael Berenbaum, specializes in erecting "narrative historical, sociological and Identity Museums."

Some 600,000 Jews from Greater Hungary were murdered during the Holocaust.

Out of the 26,513 people who have received the honor, 6,706 are Poles, 5,516 are Dutch.

"We are very proud... Today the situation in Europe has many similarities to what happened at the time of my grandfather."

"We look forward to showing you our country, an island of stability and prosperity in a tumultuous region."

Groysman was the first Jew to occupy a high political office when he was elected as House Speaker in 2014.

'The Shoah has always been, and will always be a program of annihilation that was planned and implemented against the Jewish People.'

Visitor walk through Yad Vashem.

Even Yad Vashem, whose research on the Holocaust is highly regarded, must now update its archives to reflect the new revelations.

'The Six Million: Fact or Fiction?' by Peter Winter is reportedly available for sale by Amazon in Germany, a country where Holocaust denial is a crime.

The Federal Republic of Germany will recognize Prof. Ben-Sasson's commitment to German-Israeli relations

Upon seeing the soldiers united as one, a German officer angrily shouted, 'They cannot all be Jews!' – to which Edmonds replied, 'We are all Jews here.'

Netanyahu shared his recent phone conversation with the new US president, saying Trump 'spoke about Iran's commitment to destroy Israel. He spoke about the nature of this nuclear agreement and the danger it poses.'

PM Netanyahu warned Iran that the last regime that tried to annihilate the Jewish People -- that which spawned the Holocaust -- ended up "in the dustbin of history."

There are thousands of personal letters in the Yad Vashem Archives, which were sent by Jews – adults and children – to their relatives and friends from their homes, the ghettos and the camps.

After three-quarters of a century, a phone call changed the lives of two people who thought they were alone in the world.

Neither side of the family knew anyone from the other side had survived the Holocaust!

Carlos Galindo-Elvira, Director of the Arizona Anti-Defamation League, who told local TV station 12News that 'when you joke with symbols like the swastika you begin to normalize them and make it very casual within our society.'