The final element in the new Museum Complex, the new Visual Center, is set to open in November (see “The New Visual Center”). Designed to be the most comprehensive library and database of Holocaust-related films and testimonies in the world, the unique Center will also encourage filmmakers to revisit the Holocaust period, and find new ways to portray the topic to younger audiences.

This edition also presents other innovative methods of reaching the next generations: Naomi Morgenstern enables the life story of a survivor friend, Rachel, to continue to be told using Rachel’s doll collection (see “Keeping the Memory Alive”) and two young Hungarian teachers have developed a unique course on the Holocaust for local students, walking through the streets and sites of Budapest (see “Connecting with the Youth” ). Also featured is a behind-the-scenes look at the new Museum: the fascinating and important identification of the people and places portrayed in German propaganda film clips, revealed through intricate and meticulous research by Museum staff (see “The New Museum: Behind the Scenes”).

A picture is worth a thousand words—and Yad Vashem encourages Holocaust survivors and their friends to submit photographs of victims to attach to Pages of Testimony (see “The Faces Behind the Names”). These everyday snapshots clearly portray the vibrancy of the ordinary people and richness of their cultural and spiritual world—lost, but never forgotten.

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