USA


Member of the Executive Committee of the American Society for Yad Vashem Melvin Jules Bukiet (right), presented active board member of the Young Leadership Associates Adina Schainker Burian (left), and Dr. Romana Strochlitz Primus (center), with the American Society for Yad Vashem Achievement Award at the Society’s Fifth Annual Spring Luncheon. The luncheon paid tribute to Diana Zborowski z”l, wife of American Society Chairman Eli Zborowski.


Phyllis and William Mack of New York (right, at the Benefactors’ Wall with Cheryl and Michael Minikes) toured the new Museum and received an overview of the plans for the renovation of Warsaw Ghetto Square, which they are supporting together with the Mitzner family of Houston.


Barbara Kort (right) and Susan Kort Wasserman (center) dedicated the Entrance Park at Yad Vashem, endowed in memory of husband and father Dr. Fred Kort z”l, Shoah survivor and former West Coast Chairman of the American Society for Yad Vashem. Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Avner Shalev (left) presented them with a gift.


Representatives of the Weinberg Foundation toured the new Museum in April and met with Avner Shalev to discuss the history and future of Yad Vashem and Shoah remembrance. Left to right: Itzhak Shavit (VP of UJC Overseas Supplemental Giving); Donn Weinberg; Felice Friedman; Darrell Friedman; Barry Schloss; Judge Ellen Heller; Arnon Mantver (CEO of JDC Israel); Shale Stiller (President and CEO of the Foundation); Rita Schloss.


Mark Hasten of Indianapolis (front right) visited Yad Vashem together with his family in May.


UNITED KINGDOM


Chairman of the Yad Vashem UK Foundation Ben Helfgott (right, with Avner Shalev) dedicated the Teachers’ Garden together with members of the Forty Five Society in England (of which he is also Chairman), in memory of their loved ones who perished in the Shoah.


Left to right: Allan Morgenthau, Rosalyn Springer, Diana Morgenthau and Jackie and Michael Gee visited Yad Vashem to dedicate the “The Last Jews” Gallery in the new Holocaust History Museum, endowed by the Archie Sherman Charitable Trust UK.


CANADA


Larry and Judy Tanenbaum from Toronto visited the new Hall of Names.


Heather Reisman (left) and Gerald Schwartz (center) of Toronto toured the new Museum at Yad Vashem with Avner Shalev in May.


AUSTRALIA


Baba and Andor Schwartz (4th and 5th from right) and family from Melbourne, dedicated the Path of Remembrance and Reflection (connecting Warsaw Ghetto Square to the Valley of the Communities) in April in memory of their families and Hungarian Jews who perished in the Shoah.


SPAIN


Max Mazin (5th from left) and family at the dedication of the Soldiers’ Garden, endowed in memory of his parents and sister who perished in the Shoah.


MEXICO


Yad Vashem supporters Stephanie (right) and Marcos (left) Fastlicht, in the new Museum, together with their son Jeffrey Fastlicht and sister-in-law Monica Dorenbaum Fastlicht.


Haime Feldman (center), Leon Feldman (2nd from right) and family receive an explanation on the new Museum from Director of the International Relations Division Shaya Ben Yehuda.


AUSTRIA


Yad Vashem friend and supporter Fini Steindling (right) toured the new Museum with Austrian State Secretary for Arts and Media Franz Morak (left) and a delegation from Austria.


VENEZUELA


Left to right: Enrique Nessim, Director of the Ibero-American Desk Perla Hazan; Americo Kugler; Eva Zucker Kugler; Marianne Beker; Kathi Nessim; and Francine Szteinberg (Colombia) visited Yad Vashem in May. During the visit the Kuglers dedicated a plaque in memory to her parents.


Yad Vashem supporters Klara and Hilo Ostfeld (4th and 5th from left) in the Visitors Center, together with (left to right) former Israeli ambassador to Venezuela and Spain Herzl Inbar, Enrique Mujica, Perla Hazan and Carmela Inbar.


GERMANY


Director of the International Relations Department Shaya Ben Yehuda (left) presented a gift to Marysha Gertler (2nd from left), Idessa (3rd from left) and Emmanuel Trink and Zacharias (right) and Candida Gertler and their children, at the dedication of a classroom endowed in memory of husband and father Moritz Mordechai Gertler z"l, and in memory of his family who perished in the Shoah.


Dr. Heinz and Mrs. Deichman received a guided tour of the new Museum from Executive Assistant to the Chairman of the Directorate Irena Steinfeldt (right)


ISRAEL


During a visit to Yad Vashem in April, David and Stephanie Azrieli and family toured the new Holocaust History Museum as well as the Book and Resource Center, which was established through the generosity of the Azrieli family.

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