Yad Vashem Jerusalem Quartely Magazine, Vol. 37, Spring 2005   Yad Vashem Jerusalem Quartely Magazine, Vol. 37, Spring 2005

 

 

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Inauguration of the new Museum at Yad Vashem


Contents

The Anguish of Liberation and the Return to Life: The Central Theme for Holocaust Remembrance Day 2005
Inauguration of the New Museum at Yad Vashem
   ► World leaders take a preview tour
   ► Special assembly of world leaders
   ► Supporters and friends at the inaugural events
   ► Inauguration of the new Museum of Holocaust Art

   ► Other Inaugural Ceremonies
The Online Names Database:
Global Interest Exceeds All Expectations

Education - Hearing It From the Source: Survivor Testimony in Holocaust Education
Undisputed Heroes: Leonid Bernstein: The Story of a Jewish Fighter
New Publications- Transmitting Memory: Guarded by Angels
News Auschwitz Exhibition
at the UN

Torchlighters 2005

About the Magazine
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World leaders take a preview tour inside the new Holocaust History Museum


World leaders take a preview tour inside the new Holocaust History Museum.


Avner Shalev shows the original Auschwitz Album to French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, President Moshe Katsav and Mrs. Gila Katsav.


Heads of state view an exhibit on the anguish of liberation and the return to life.


Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos in the exhibit on emigration of Holocaust survivors to Eretz Yisrael.


Avner Shalev with Minister of Education, Culture and Sport Limor Livnat MK, Mrs. Gila Katsav, Kofi and Nane Annan and leads of state in the exhibit on the deportations of Jews from Nazi-occupied countries.


Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen (left) with Avner Shalev and President Moshe Katsav by a boat used to save the Jews of Denmark during WWII


Slovakian President Ivan Gasparovic and Hungarian Minister of Information and Communications Kalman Kovacs view the exhibit on Theresienstadt.


Avner Shalev giving an explanation of the symbolically reconstructed Warsaw Ghetto’s Leszno Street, recreated with original cobblestones and artifacts.


German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer views an exhibit on slave labor camp inmates.


Romanian Prime Minister Călin Popescu–Tăriceanu views an exhibit on the Nazis’ rise to power.

Overview - The New Holocaust History Museum


 


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