Recent Australian visits to Yad Vashem

Australian Holocaust survivors Joseph and Helen Fröhlich West, with daughter Tonia Komisarov and granddaughters Lana Tavor and Renee Maoz, laying a memorial wreath at Yad Vashem on Yom Hashoah.

Australian guests on Erev Yom Hashoah at Yad Vashem’s Warsaw Ghetto Square. From left to right: Gary Zamel of Sydney, David Metzler, Director Yad Vashem’s English Desk, Paul Israel, Executive Director Israel-Australia Chamber of Commerce, Norman Schueler of Adelaide, The Hon. Jay Weatherill MP, South Australian Minister for Environment and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Shlomo Werdiger of Melbourne.

Joseph Fröhlich West of Australia shakes hands with President Shimon Peres at Yad Vashem on Yom Hashoah. Helen Fröhlich West and their daughter and granddaughters were also in attendance.

In September Josh Liberman (third from left) led an IACC Mission from Melbourne, Australia to Israel. The group, which included Peter and Alla Lew (first and second from right), were guided in Yad Vashem’s Holocaust History Museum by Yad Vashem’s Director of the English Speaking Desk, David Metzler (third from right).

A tribute ceremony honoring the Gandel family, as the Gandel Holocaust Studies Program for Australian Educators was launched.
Left to right: Michelle Gandel, John Gandel, Linda Gandel, David Metzler, Pauline Gandel, Australian Ambassador James Larsen, Jackie Gandel, Ian Gandel and Avner Shalev

Phillip Green of Sydney, Australia toured Yad Vashem’s new Holocaust History Museum in March.

The Israel Australia Chamber of Commerce came to Yad Vashem for a moving visit on Holocaust Remembrance day. With a delegation of close to 50 persons they toured the Holocaust History Museum, were briefed by Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev and participated in the official Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony. Pictured here is Lee Liberman at a wreath laying ceremony for the IACC in Yad Vashem’s Hall of Remembrance.

Carol and Alan Schwartz of Melbourne paid their respects at The Path of Remembrance and Reflection, endowed by the Schwartz family in memory of the Jews of Hungary who perished in the Shoah.

In December Ruth and Sam Alter of Melbourne came to visit Yad Vashem with their extended family. The family is pictured here at the Partisans’ Panorama.

From Melbourne, Australia, this group came for an extended tour of Yad Vashem in April 2007.

Pictured from left to right at the Family Plaza: Joe Siegel, Sam Sokolski, Helen Sokolski, Jeffrey Appel, Sue Appel and David Freedman
 

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