Contents
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Editors' Remarks
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The New Museum: Thousands of
Visitors a Day
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“Etched Voices”: New Exhibitions
Pavilion Displays Contemporary Art
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Inauguration of the New Synagogue
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Education:
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Focusing on Europe
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Echoes and Reflections
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Guides for the March of the Living
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Events at the
International School for Holocaust Studies
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Generation to Generation: Historic
Gathering of Survivors and their Families
at Yad Vashem
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The Names Database: Collecting
Names, Memorializing Lives
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Their Silent Cries: Hidden Child
Survivors of the Holocaust
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News
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Names Database Part of Berlin Memorial
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New Learning Center Inaugurated
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Events April – June 2005
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Institute Strengthens International
Cooperation to Expand Research
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New Publication
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Recent Visits to Yad Vashem
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Friends Worldwide
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About the Magazine
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Credits
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Back Issues
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Photo: Boris Mehl (Stiftung Denkmal)
Responding to a request from the founders of Berlin’s new Memorial for the
Murdered Jews in Europe, Yad Vashem has developed a German interface for
the Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names Database, enabling visitors
to the memorial to explore the website from a special foyer dedicated to
the Database and Yad Vashem. Officially opened on 10 May, the memorial
comprises 2,711 concrete stelae of varying heights covering some 19,000
sq. meters, and includes an underground Information Center with four
Subject Rooms. One of these rooms is dedicated to the names of Jews killed
in the Shoah, with short biographies (including birth dates and
circumstances of death) of some of the victims projected on its wall.
Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Avner Shalev attended the opening
ceremonies of the new memorial, along with the Director of the Memorial
Foundation Bundestag President Wolfgang Thierse, President of the Central
Council of the Jews in Germany Dr. h. c. Paul Spiegel, memorial architect
Prof. Peter Herman, Holocaust survivor Sabina van der Linden (née Haberman),
and Chairperson of the Association for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews
of Europe Lea Rosh.
Shalev noted the significance of integrating the Names Database in the
Memorial, imbuing remembrance with “a personal-human perspective.” Since
its opening, some 1,200 enquiries a day have been made to the Database.
Yad Vashem hopes this encouraging example will lead to similar interfaces
being established in other sites worldwide.
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Young visitors use the new German interface of
the Names Database at the new Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe,
Berlin.
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