Recent Visits to Yad Vashem

Jan and Andy Groveman enjoyed a personalized tour of the Yad Vashem Art Museum during their visit

On 24 July we had the distinct pleasure of hosting Yad Vashem friend Sid Ferenc. He came together with his fiancé and cousin. During their visit, Managing Director of the International Relations Shaya Ben Yehuda spent time showing them several documents and artifacts that shed light on the personal story of the Shoah.

The extended Moskowitz family came to Yad Vashem for a special tour of the campus. Shown in the picture are Yad Vashem Builder Mark Moskowitz and his mother Rose Moskowitz.  

Bobbie and Lew Frankfort enjoyed an emotional tour of Yad Vashem together with their daughter Alana.  

Yad Vashem Builders Linda and Murray Laulicht came for a visit to Yad Vashem together with their grandchildren and daughter and son in-law Laurie and Bernard Hasten.

Yad Vashem Trustee Selma Gruder Horowitz visited Yad Vashem for a specially designed tour, including a behind the scenes of the artifacts room.

Sam Boymel came to Yad Vashem on April 22nd; here he is standing next to the Righteous Among the Nations plaque which includes the name of the Righteous who saved him, Petr Tokarsky, of blessed memory.

Yad Vashem Benefactors, Cecile and Edward Mosberg dedicated a Torah that was salvaged from Poland to Yad Vashem. A very emotional ceremony was held in the presence of their daughter, Louise Levine, and grandson Alexander Levine who was in Israel as part of a March of the Living group.

Yad Vashem Benefactors Phyllis and William Mack toured the Holocaust History Museum together with their friends. They were greeted by Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Avner Shalev and Managing Director of the International Relations Division, Shaya Ben Yehuda.

Chairman of the American Society for Yad Vashem, Eli Zborowski, laid a wreath at the official Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony together with the Cultural Director of the American Society for Yad Vashem, Dr. Elizabeth Mundlak Zborowski, Yad Vashem Builder Mark Palmer.

Yad Vashem Benefactors Rosalie and Teddy Berman laid a wreath at the official Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony.

During their visit to Yad Vashem with their children and friends, Scott Berrie and Patricia Willens participated in a Bar Mitzvah ceremony in honor of Sam Feder, son of Victoria and Ben Feder.

Sondra and Murray Myers (left) visited the Holocaust History Museum in December, accompanied by Deputy Director and Senior Art Curator of the Museums Division Yehudit Shendar.

Gary and Kim Heiman visited Yad Vashem together with the Israel Experience Group from Cincinnati on 26 January.

Robert and Penny Fox were given a special tour of the Holocaust History Museum as well as a behind-the-scenes visit to Yad Vashem’s Archives.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Houston’s Connection 2009 Community Mission came to Yad Vashem on 27 February. During their visit, they participated in a moving memorial service in the Hall of Remembrance.

Alice and Thomas Tisch and family visited Yad Vashem in late November. While here, they participated in a Bat Mitzvah ceremony in honor of their daughter Abigail.

Shown from L to R: Thomas Tisch, Abigail Tisch, Alice Tisch and Shaya Ben Yehuda, Managing Director, International Relations Division, Yad Vashem

Sam and Rachel Boymel, both of whom survived the Holocaust, went on a special tour of the Holocaust History Museum and also participated in a memorial service, commemorating their family members who perished during the Shoah, at the Hall of Remembrance

Three generations of the Sternlicht family visited Yad Vashem on the first day of Chanukah. During their stay they visited the Holocaust History Museum and participated in a Bar Mitzvah ceremony at the synagogue.

Yad Vashem Benefactors and Holocaust survivors Cecile and Ed Mosberg visited Yad Vashem in December

Yad Vashem Benefactor Steven Schwarz visited the campus in December, including the Exhibitions Pavilion which he endowed together with his late wife Tina z”l and his brother Henryk and sister in-law Rochelle.

The extended Feinstein Family came for a visit to Yad Vashem, accompanied by Sari Granitza, Deputy Managing Director of the International Relations Division (l left).

David Gottstein, son of Yad Vashem Builders, Rachel and Barney Gottstein, visited the campus together with his fiancé

Herbert Gruder, the brother of Yad Vashem builder and 2008 American Society for Yad Vashem Dinner honoree, Selma Gruder Horowitz visited the Holocaust History Museum

Yad Vashem Builder Jean Schreibman and sister of Yad Vashem Benefactor Jack Pechter visited Yad Vashem during Sukkot together with her son and daughter-in-law

Pictured: Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Chris Rock at the exit of the Children's Memorial.

Yad Vashem Builder, producer Jeffrey Katzenberg and actors Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Ben Stiller, who were in Israel for the premier of "Madagascar 2”, visited Yad Vashem. The group had an emotional tour of the Holocaust History Museum, Hall of Names and Children’s Memorial at Yad Vashem

Pictured: Yad Vashem Builders David, Ellie, Millie, Martin and Bracha Werber

On September 17th a moving dedication ceremony was held in memory of Jack Werber Z”L, a Holocaust survivor who saved close to 700 Jewish youth in Buchenwald

Pictured: Chairman of the Directorate Avner Shalev, Mordechai Tessler and Managing Director of the International Relations Division Shaya Ben Yehuda

A launch ceremony took place in order to honor the immense contribution of Rudolph and Edith Tessler. Through their generosity, the publication of a four-volume textbook series called “Years Wherein We Have Seen Evil” was made possible. The series written for the Haredi community has garnered accolades and tremendous positive feedback

Seryl and Charles Kushner toured the Yad Vashem Campus together with Eli Zborowski, Chairman of the American Society for Yad Vashem and Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Directorate Yad Vashem. L to R: Eli Zborowski, Seryl Kushner, Charles Kushner and Avner Shalev

Ronald Perelman from New York visited Yad Vashem, in late July, for a special tour of the campus and museum

Builder Alan Pines and his daughter Nicole visited and toured Yad Vashem on August 25^th

Luis Ubinas, President of the Ford Foundation and David Chiel, Deputy Vice-President, Program Management of the Ford Foundation visited the Yad Vashem campus and toured the Holocaust History Museum

Yad Vashem friend Martin Werber, and his family visited Yad Vashem on July 10^th, 2008

Jay and Deanie Stein and family from Jacksonville, Florida toured Yad Vashem and met with Shaya Ben Yehuda for a special presentation in the Archive department

New Benefactors Paul and Vera Guerin unveil the “Bridge to Life” dedicated in memory of Vera’s parents Nathan and Lilly Shapell z”l. The Guerin’s donation will support educational programs and IDF soldier visits at Yad Vashem



Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev presents a plaque of appreciation to Vera and Paul Guerin

(L to R) David, Matthew and Rita Levy and International Relations Director Shaya Ben Yehuda unveil the plaque dedicating the new Holocaust Studies Program for Training US Educators. The program, dedicated in memory of Rita’s father Nathan Katz z”l, will support seminars at Yad Vashem and in the US to create a cadre of outstanding Holocaust educators



(L to R) Director of Overseas Seminars Ephraim Kaye presents a token of appreciation to Rita, David, and Matthew Levy

Lenny and Beth Wilf, Benefactors of the Entrance Plaza and the children of Holocaust History Museum’s major donors Harry Wilf z”l and Judith Wilf z”l, visited Yad Vashem on a tour specially designed to explain the Holocaust to their children
 

Museum Benefactor Susan Crown (r) toured Yad Vashem together with Lesley Said (l), Program Officer of the Arie and Ida Crown Memorial Foundation

Tom Spiegel (L), son of Benefactors Abe z”l and Edita z”l Spiegel, visited Yad Vashem with Marilyn Winn, where they were met by Chairman Avner Shalev

Yad Vashem friend Sid Ferenc visited Yad Vashem this spring and met with Director of the International Relations Shaya Ben Yehuda. They viewed the International School for Holocaust Studies, where groundbreaking on the new International Seminars Wing will begin this summer

Fred Lafer, Executive Director of the Marilyn and Henry Taub Foundation, visited Yad Vashem and met with Senior Artifacts Curator Chaviva Peled-Carmeli

Yad Vashem Builder Jeffrey Katzenberg visited Yad Vashem with his family for a special tour of the museum and campus

Fred and Velva Levine of Houston (l) visited Yad Vashem for a special tour of the campus together with Shaya Ben Yehuda (2nd from r) and longtime Yad Vashem friend Benjamin Warren. Among several venues, they visited the exhibition My Homeland: Holocaust Survivors and the State of Israel

(R to L) Myra and Bob Kraft visited the Yad Vashem campus with their grandson, Harry.

(Left to Right:) Elizabeth Zborowski, American Society for Yad Vashem Chairman Eli Zborowski, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, President George W. Bush, Deputy Director of the Yad Vashem Museums Yehudit Shendar, Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev

During President George W. Bush’s visit to Yad Vashem in January, the American and Israeli official delegations met with Chairman of the American Society for Yad Vashem, Eli Zborowski (2nd from left.) Here they are pictured in the Museum of Holocaust Art viewing the illustrated Bible crafted by Jewish artist Carol Deutsch who was murdered by the Nazis. A portfolio-sized replica of the Bible was presented to President Bush by Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev (right.)

(Left to Right:) Yad Vashem guide Hazy Flint, David Mitzner, Director of International Relations Shaya Ben Yehuda, Ira Mitzner, Laura Mitzner.

Yad Vashem welcomed 3 generations of the Mitzner family, Benefactors from Houston. David Mitzner, Ira Mitzner, and Laura Mitzner toured the exhibition “Spots of Light: To Be a Woman in the Holocaust.”

On October 17th, Yad Vashem held a ceremony dedicating the “Bearing Witness” Garden, endowed through the generous gift of Lucian and Susan Seifert (pictured) in memory of the Seifert family members who perished in the Holocaust. Among those addressing the ceremony were Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev and former IDF Chief of Staff General (res.) Moshe “Bugi” Ya’alon. The Seiferts are recent Benefactors of Yad Vashem

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